Top 5 NASDAQ Fintech Stocks (Updated January 2025)

1. Sezzle (NASDAQ:SEZL)

Year-over-year gain: 1,241.19 percent
Market cap: US$1.39 billion
Share price: US$248.12

Sezzle is a buy now-pay later (BNPL) fintech company that launched in 2016. Its digital payment platform provides an alternative for millions of consumers with limited access to traditional credit.

Sezzle offers a full-suite of interest-free installment plans at online stores and select in-store locations across the US, Canada and Australia. It is the only BNPL platform in North America to offer credit reporting optionality through its Sezzle Up program, allowing users to build credit.

As of September 2024, Sezzle had an estimated 529,000 active subscribers. Since its inception it has generated US$8.1 billion in underlying merchant sales, and 15 million completed sign ups. The company achieved its first quarter of profitability in November 2022.

Sezzle’s stock increased in value gradually in the first half of 2024 to reach over US$78 per share in early August. After the company released its positive Q2 2024 financials, its share price shot up to US$106.50 on August 8. The report showed that total revenue (less transaction related costs) reached a record high for the quarter, up 71.7 percent year-over-year to US$32.2 million.

The company’s share price continued to climb, hitting US$170.59 by the end of the third quarter. After releasing its stellar Q3 2024 financial report on November 7, which showed total revenue growth up 71.3 percent year-over-year, its stock value skyrocketed from US$250.47 to US$431.48 in one day.

Shares in Sezzle reached their yearly peak of US$464 on November 25, before pulling back to the US$260 range by the end of the year following a critical short report released by Hindenburg Research on December 18.

2. Dave (NASDAQ:DAVE)

Year-over-year gain: 859.06 percent
Market cap: US$1.09 billion
Share price: US$85.26

Dave is a US-based neobank and a pioneer in the fintech space. The company offers digital banking services through its mobile banking app, launched in 2017. Its offerings include the Dave Debit Card through a license from Mastercard, and its ExtraCash cash advance program. Dave partners with Evolve Bank & Trust, an FDIC member.

Dave’s share price has benefited greatly over the past year from the company’s record-setting growth quarter after quarter. In May 2024, its Q1 2024 financial report highlighted record revenue of US$73.6 million, up 25 percent year-over-year. The company’s share price jumped over 12 percent in one day to US$52.30 on May 7.

But it was the company’s Q3 2024 financial report that really rallied the stock. Dave saw its revenues for the quarter rise by 41 percent year-over-year to US$92.5 million, the company’s fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. In response, the value of the fintech stock surged from US$62.80 to US$90.43 per share. Shares in Dave hit their yearly peak of US$103.96 on December 17.

4. Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD)

Year-over-year gain: 233.14 percent
Market cap: US$36.08 billion
Share price: US$40.81

Robinhood Markets is a California-based fintech company that offers commission-free stock trading and emphasizes “democratizing access to the markets for millions of investors.” On its digital platform, users can trade stocks, options, commodity interests and crypto. In June, the company said it will acquire global cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp.

Robinhood’s stock had its best quarter of 2024 in Q4. On October 30, the company released its Q3 2024 financials, highlighting its second highest revenues on record (up 36 percent year-over-year to US$637 million). Additionally, its year-to-date net deposits of US$34 billion and year-to-date revenues of US$1.94 billion were both higher than any prior full year period.

In its October 2024 operating data report released on November 11, Robinhood reported funded customers at the end of October were 24.4 million, which was up over 1 million year-over-year. Additionally, assets under custody totaled US$159.7 billion, up 5 percent from September 2024 and up 89 percent year-over-year. The following month, the company reported its November 2024 operating data, which showed funded customers had grown to 24.8 million and assets under custody hit US$195 billion.

Shares in Robinhood grew by more than 66 percent over the fourth quarter to US$37.26 on December 31, 2024. The company’s highest yearly peak came on December 16 at US$43.20.

5. Priority Technology Holdings (NASDAQ:PRTH)

Year-over-year gain: 215.79 percent
Market cap: US$880.06 million
Share price: US$11.40

Priority Technology Holdings is a payments and banking fintech firm that provides services to more than 1.1 million active customers spanning small to medium businesses, business to business and enterprises. Its platform allows for the collecting, storing, lending and sending of money.

Priority is another fintech stock on this list that had a great fourth quarter in 2024. Shares in the company rose 88 percent over the period to reach US$11.75 per share on December 31.

In its Q3 2024 financials, Priority's reported revenues were up 20.1 percent year-over-year to US$227 million. Adjusted gross profit grew by 18.9 percent to US$86 million over the same period, and its operating income rose 62 percent to US$38.1 million.

Priority’s stock value reached its highest yearly peak of US$12.29 on January 3, 2025.