AFRM Stock Recent News

Evaluate the expected performance of Affirm Holdings (AFRM) for the quarter ended March 2024, looking beyond the conventional Wall Street top-and-bottom-line estimates and examining some of its key metrics for better insight.

Financial technology, or fintech stocks, is a relatively new and fast-growing sector in which to invest. The sector encompasses many of the facets of modern banks, including payment facilitation, wallets, checking accounts, saving accounts, credit cards and even loan facilities.

Stocks continue their strong start to the trading week. Marc X. Lopresti discusses this, as well as his stocks to watch which include JetBlue (JBLU), Xerox (XRX), Affirm (AFRM), and Spotify (SPOT).

Affirm (AFRM) faces competition as Walmart (WMT) adds buy now, pay later start up. George Tsilis discusses this as Affirm has partnered with Walmart since 2019.

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM ) stock is falling on Tuesday after Walmart's (NYSE: WMT ) One launched its buy now pay later (BNPL) service at the retail giant's stores. With this comes the addition of One of the company's kiosks during checkout.

Affirm Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: AFRM) is down 8.0% at writing after One – a Walmart-backed financial technology startup joined the BNPL race.

Fintech lender Affirm has started quietly offering "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) loans for elective medical procedures, in a major push beyond its core e-commerce market, the company told Reuters.

The Biden administration has introduced a formal proposal to forgive student loan debt, aiming to benefit millions and withstand legal scrutiny. This revised plan focuses on debt accrued beyond original loan amounts for certain low-income earners and cancels unpaid interest for all income levels.

In the most recent trading session, Affirm Holdings (AFRM) closed at $33.80, indicating a +0.69% shift from the previous trading day.

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