Author

@bobspaysubstack bobspaysubstack

Bottom-up payments/fintech specialist trading KPIs and cross-name relative value

Publishes deep fundamental analysis and real-time tickered c

trader score
-0.83
hit rate
50%
mean α
-0.38%
signals 14d
17

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 20 scored bets: 50% hit rate, -0.38% mean alpha, trader score -0.83. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved -0.4% since posting (mean over 17 mentions with price data).

Recent signals15receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-10-16AVGO@bobspaysubstack+0.65Opened a 100-share starter position in AVGO after selling the final 25 META shares. — Discloses a new AVGO entry funded by exiting META and says AI-hardware expectations have reset more realistically.-2.2%
2026-10-16META@bobspaysubstack-0.15Opened a 100-share starter position in AVGO after selling the final 25 META shares. — Discloses a new AVGO entry funded by exiting META and says AI-hardware expectations have reset more realistically.-9.4%
2026-10-16NVDA@bobspaysubstack+0.25Opened a 100-share starter position in AVGO after selling the final 25 META shares. — Discloses a new AVGO entry funded by exiting META and says AI-hardware expectations have reset more realistically.-1.5%
2026-10-16FISV@bobspaysubstack-0.45Explains widening valuation dispersion between card networks and merchant-acquiring or fintech peers.+4.9%
2026-10-16AXP@bobspaysubstack+0.20Explains widening valuation dispersion between card networks and merchant-acquiring or fintech peers.-0.1%
2026-10-16V@bobspaysubstack+0.55Explains widening valuation dispersion between card networks and merchant-acquiring or fintech peers.+1.3%
2026-10-16MA@bobspaysubstack+0.50Explains widening valuation dispersion between card networks and merchant-acquiring or fintech peers.+1.0%
2026-10-16GPN@bobspaysubstack-0.45Explains widening valuation dispersion between card networks and merchant-acquiring or fintech peers.-1.0%
2026-10-13WFC@bobspaysubstack+0.30Debit and credit-card volume growth accelerated across recent quarters at JPM and WFC.+2.0%
2026-10-13JPM@bobspaysubstack+0.30Debit and credit-card volume growth accelerated across recent quarters at JPM and WFC.+0.0%
2026-10-12KLAR@bobspaysubstack-0.20Praises Sezzle's aggressive monetization and says Klarna could learn from it.-7.6%
2026-10-12SEZL@bobspaysubstack+0.65Praises Sezzle's aggressive monetization and says Klarna could learn from it.+1.3%
2026-10-12KLAR@bobspaysubstack-0.35Headline questions when Klarna's buy-now-pay-later business will become profitable.-7.6%
2026-10-10XYZ@bobspaysubstack-0.30Highlights inconsistent Afterpay financial and KPI information supplied by Block's investor-relations bot.-1.0%
2026-10-08V@bobspaysubstack-0.30Warns the credit-card legislation would shift economics to retailers and endanger rewards.+8.7%

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.