XP - Q4 2025

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André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Good evening, everyone. I'm André Parize, Investor Relations Officer at XP. Thank you for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. On behalf of the company, I would like to welcome you to our fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. Today's presentation will be delivered by our CEO, Thiago Maffra, and our CFO, Victor Mansur. Both will be available for the Q&A session immediately afterwards. If you'd like to ask a question during the Q&A, please use the Raise Hand feature on Zoom. All questions will be answered in the order they are received. Simultaneous translation into Portuguese is available during this conference call. If you would like to activate it, please click the button below. Before we begin, please see the legal disclaimer on page two of today's presentation for additional information on forward-looking statements.

The presentation is available for download on our investor relations website, and more information is also available in the SEC filing section of our IR website. To begin the presentation, I'll hand it over to Thiago Maffra. Good evening, Maffra.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Thank you, André. Good evening, everyone, and thank you all for joining us today for our fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. Before delving into the numbers, I would like to comment on the recent shareholders change we have just announced in a 6-K. As announced, myself and José Berenguer, CEO of XP Wholesale Bank, will become holders of XP Control LLC, alongside Guilherme Benchimol, who is still the main controlling shareholder, and Fabrício Almeida and Guilherme Sant’Anna. This is part of the ongoing process of strengthening corporate governance, long-term alignment, and the company's management model. Now to the results. In 2025, we continued investing in key areas of our business. We enhanced our core processes, scaled financial planning, deepened our segmentation strategy, and launched new products.

We also celebrate the fifth anniversary of our wholesale bank, an important milestone that demonstrates the strength and integration of the ecosystem we have built. This platform drives the evolution of services for our corporate and institutional clients, in addition to create cross-selling opportunities across our ecosystem. Despite its relatively short history, we have established a top-tier franchise that keeps growing in a consistent manner and contributing to our results. Alongside these structural advancements, we continued our agenda of better serving our clients. We launched a new campaign focused on empowering clients through the power of choice. We are the first investment firm in Brazil to offer transactional, fee-based, and RIA models. We believe there is no single ideal model; rather, different models are best suited to different client profiles.

By having these different models, complete product range, focus on excellence, and the most qualified team of advisors as our main advantage, we became the largest investment network in Brazil. Today, we oversee approximately BRL 2.1 trillion across AUC, AUM, and AUA, supported by a nationwide network of around 18,000 advisors, serving approximately five million clients. Our presence spans almost 800 investment centers across 23 Brazilian states and the Federal District, combining scale with local reach. We rank number one in traded volume on B3 and process nearly 50,000 fixed income transactions per day. We had some challenges last year, but by strengthening our business fundamentals, we have positioned ourselves to capture future opportunities. With a robust platform, disciplined execution, and a fully committed team, we are starting 2026 ready to grow, whatever the market scenario.

On the next slide, we will explore how our ecosystem transformed over time and how that transformation brought us to where we are today. This slide captures where XP stands today. We are entering a more mature phase while retaining the disruptive DNA that has always defined our journey. Our evolution has happened in waves. The first wave was focused on democratizing access to financial products that, until then, were not largely offered by incumbent banks, like equities and third-party funds. The education of individual investors was an important pillar in the first wave, and through that, we fostered the development of the investment advisory industry in Brazil. In the second wave, we scaled, broadened our distribution, and built a comprehensive ecosystem, consolidating XP as one-stop-shop financial platform. Now, we are advancing to a third wave, a move that democratize the wealth services model.

We are taking a holistic and agnostic approach to give clients true freedom of choice. We have always put clients' power of choice at the heart of our strategy. We remain committed to leading the market forward, guided by our long-standing belief that we play a key role in society by continuously improving the way people invest, manage, and think about their money. Our ultimate goal is to help clients achieve their dreams. Now, moving on to the next slide. Our transformative track record has brought us to where we are today. We have built a distinctive business that delivers profitability while maintaining a conservative capital structure, giving us the option to operate in a broad range of scenarios. We posted gross revenues of BRL 19.5 billion in 2025, up 8% year-over-year.

As I mentioned last quarter, we expected double-digit growth on the second half of 2025, and we managed to achieve that level. In the second half, we grew slightly more than 10% versus second half of 2024, showing that the initiatives we implemented during the year and earlier are responding positively. Year-over-year, EBT grew 10%, reaching BRL 5.5 billion. Adjusted net income in fourth quarter 2025 was BRL 1.3 billion and BRL 5.2 billion for the full year, representing a 15% expansion year-over-year. Regarding balance sheet and profitability, we achieved 23.9% ROE in 2025, representing a ninety-four basis points expansion versus 2024.

Our year-end BIS ratio was 20.4%, a very comfortable level, even after the payment of BRL 500 million in dividends and BRL 1.9 billion in share buybacks executed in 2025. Finally, our adjusted diluted EPS increased by 18% during the year. Now that we covered our platform, our disruptive profile, and the highlights of the financial results, I would like to go into more detail on our business strategy. We have spent the past two years developing our service excellence agenda. At first, we focused on building the foundations, systems, incentive models, and sales force training. In 2025, we took the next step and began to scale this model. At the same time, we refined our client segmentation, offering tailored service models and value propositions for each segment, supported by multiple pricing structures.

It's worth mentioning that today, approximately 23% of our retail AUC is already under a fee-based model. We continue to adopt this approach, recognizing that there is no single best model, but rather the most appropriate model for each client. We have also developed different ways to objectively track adherence to this way of serving. One of the most important tools we have is the XP Service Model Index. It incorporates metrics such as financial and wealth planning, quality of client relationships, and adherence to recommended asset allocation. Initial results are tangible. Clients above the index target show meaningfully better financial outcomes, with 21% higher revenues and more than double the net assets inflows. As we roll out this agenda, different KPIs will move accordingly. Currently, clients above the index target make up 39% of our AUC, and we expect this number to continue expanding.

We will cover this topic in more detail on the next slide. Two important pillars of our foundation are financial and wealth planning and our expert allocation model. We support our clients with a holistic approach based on financial and wealth planning. We help clients navigate complex and highly personal decisions with clarity and confidence. Our work goes beyond investments, encompassing succession, estate and tax planning, always tailored to each client's objectives, family structure, and long-term vision. We offer financial planning for our clients with at least BRL 300,000 in AUC, and comprehensive wealth planning for clients with invested assets above BRL 3 million. We were truly pioneers on democratizing access to these services in Brazil at a time when they were largely restricted to a small group of very wealthy individuals.

Additionally, we developed in-house technology that allow us to go beyond and scale the offering of financial planning while maintaining governance and quality, and this is something no other player in Brazil can do. Our second pillar is the expert allocation model, which is a proprietary tool based on algorithmic intelligence designed to propose a smart asset allocation. The use of this technology goes hand in hand with our advisory capabilities and considers multiple variables such as available products, liquidity, client profile, the structure of the current portfolio, among others... Through it, we combine the best of both human and technological capabilities, data intelligence, complemented by the depth of human knowledge and the strong client relationships built by our advisors. To track the development of our agenda, we measure how usage of these two tools evolves over time.

Currently, 21% and 12% of targeted clients track their financial and wealth planning with an advisor. Additionally, adherence to the expert allocation tool has been rapidly growing across all segments, and December 2025 was a record month for allocation using this tool. Besides the fact that we are democratizing this service, we can also see on the right-hand side of the slide, we are delivering positive performance to clients. Looking at the number of advised clients portfolios, 39% achieved returns of more than 110% of the Selic rate. 23% had returns between 100 and 110, and 28% obtained returns between 80 and 100% of the Selic rate. This means that 90% of the advised client base is registering returns of 90% and higher than the Selic rate.

Given that technology is a key component of our business, we will explore in a greater detail on the next slide. Technology is a core pillar of XP's growth strategy. Our proprietary platforms and AI-driven capabilities enable scalable expansion while maintaining strong governance and improving advisor productivity. We believe in what we call an augmented advisor, which is an advisor whose capabilities are enhanced by AI. This improvement can be seen in different aspects. First, relationships. We are now able to monitor the frequency and quality of advisors' interactions with clients, providing us with data and intelligence that will ultimately be used to make the advisors better equipped to serve their clients. Second, asset allocation. Technology and AI play a central role in asset allocation, supporting portfolio reviews and personalized recommendations aligned with our expert allocation framework. Third, automation.

By reducing the operational workload of advisors, automation allows them to focus on higher value client relationships. By augmenting advisors with AI across relationship management, operations, and allocation, we can increase account load and advisor productivity while improving client satisfaction. By monitoring and scoring client interactions, we ensure strong governance, consistent service quality, and scalable growth. To close this section of the presentation, I would like to talk about a core part of XP, our advisor network. XP basically created the modern investment advisor role in Brazil, and that role has continued to evolve over time. What began with education and access to equity products has grown into a highly professional, scalable advisor model that supports increasingly complex client needs. While we offer a unique value proposition to clients, we also have a differentiated value proposition for our advisors.

We equip them with proprietary tools, data, and intelligence that enhance their productivity, improve advice quality, and strengthen client relationships. This combination of technology, training, and incentive alignment is something no other platform offers at scale in Brazil. By continuously investing in the development of more than 18,000 advisors, we reinforce the strength of our distribution network, enhance clients' relationships, and the quality of the service delivered, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of our model. Finally, this powerful combination of service excellence, strong client relationships, and financial performance, together with a sales force that has aligned incentives and robust capabilities, corroborates our conviction that disciplined execution, backed by governance and technology, will drive the performance of all our segments towards our strategic objectives. Now, let's move on to the next slide to explore our retail investments strategy.

This slide summarizes the results we are achieving across our core segments and shows how our strategic investments are producing concrete outcomes. Starting with retail, this segment continues to represent a significant opportunity for us. While we have faced market share pressure and margin compression over the last two years. We have taken decisive action to redesign the way we serve these clients, with the objective of improving efficiency. The current scenario already reflects early signs of progress, with a new value proposition grounded in goal-based investing and managed portfolios. We already see strong initial improvements with a margin accretive dynamics. Our strategy now is to expand this initial test to other client layers, using technology, process, and governance as key enablers to scale in a profitable way. In high income, our core segment, fundamentals remain very strong.

We have focused most of our investments here, and it's where our competitive advantage stand out the most. We continue to see solid growth, supported by our multi-model service approach. As previously shown, financial planning, wealth planning, and expert allocation remain at the center of the strategy, reinforcing client engagement and long-term value creation. In private banking, we are seeing the results of our recent investments. The segment is transitioning into a full wealth management model, covering both individuals and corporate client needs, supported by a robust product platform and a highly skilled team. Growth has resumed with market share gains and expansion in credit and cross-selling within the XP ecosystem. We are still investing in this segment, and we expect to see further market share gains, accompanied by margin expansion. On the next slide, we'll share our consolidated client assets figure.

In the last quarter of 2025, our total client assets, combined with AUM and AUA, total BRL 2.1 trillion, representing a 22% growth year-over-year. This was an important milestone for XP, crossing the BRL 2 trillion threshold. On the right hand of this slide, we show how net new money related to client assets evolved during the last quarter of the year. In 2025, one of the most frequently asked questions for XP was around net new money. To clarify some of the questions we received, we'd like to exceptionally give a little more color on this metric. This quarter, we once again achieved BRL 20 billion in retail net new money and BRL 12 billion in corporate and institutional, totaling BRL 32 billion for the period.

As we have been saying in the previous quarters, retail net new money has been impacted by the dynamics of SMBs. In the fourth quarter of 2025, small and medium enterprises withdrew BRL 3 billion in investments from our platform. On the other hand, inflows from individual clients in all our segments totaled BRL 23 billion. While we posted positive figures this quarter and met our soft guidance, we still face a challenging environment for 2026. We are investing in different initiatives to support our future growth, but for now, we remain expecting retail net new money reaching BRL 20 billion per quarter. Retail cross-sell has been one of our focuses to diversify revenue streams over the last few years. In 2025, we achieved important milestones in this business vertical. As a result, we have observed higher engagement from our clients across different products.

Across insurance, cards, consortium, retirement plans, and new launches are driving market share gains and record contributions. For 2026, we will continue to innovate and expand our offering, improving the integration of these products in financial planning and enhance the customer journey through a better digital experience. For instance, in insurance, we will launch new products, travel, home, and credit line insurance, and in life insurance, we will expand our product range with new coverage. Taking cards into consideration, the new launches we had during the year made it possible to increase the share of spending while increasing penetration among target clients. In 2026, we'll also be launching new products to enhance our cross-sell offering. In the first half of 2026, we are rolling out a proprietary dollar-backed stablecoin, targeting clients who seek to diversify or hedge against FX volatility while providing true 24/7 liquidity.

This stablecoin launches Clear's proprietary digital currency strategy and will expand the portfolio over time. Finally, we will reintroduce crypto services that are fully integrated into our platform, with XP operating as a virtual asset brokerage. This ensures a seamless and trusted experience... fully embedded within our broader investment ecosystem. Overall, this steady evolution in cross-sell products strengthens client relationships, increases share of wallet, and diversifies recurring revenue. Let's move ahead to the next slide and review some KPIs from our cross-sell products. Let's start with credit card, where TPV rose 11% year-over-year to BRL 14.6 billion in fourth quarter 2025. In 2025, we launched new products, offering unique value propositions for high income and private banking segments. Life insurance written premium grew 25% year-over-year in fourth quarter, after we enhanced our offering, including new coverage.

In retirement plans, our client assets posted 17% growth year-over-year in fourth quarter, reaching BRL 95 billion. Cross-channel campaigns and client initiatives led to positive inflows. In 2025, we had, for example, record inflows in the defined contribution pension plan, with 17% growth year-over-year. Other new products, which include FX, global investments, digital account, and consortium, collectively grew 21% year-over-year, generating BRL 258 million in revenue this quarter. It's worth noting that these products were built from scratch only a few years ago, and already account for more than BRL 1 billion recurring revenues per year. On the next slide, we will cover the evolution of our wholesale bank. We are operating a complete ecosystem, where our wholesale bank has become a key pillar of our strategy.

Just a few years after we started our wholesale banking activities, we have grown into one of Brazil's largest players. As our retail platform scaled, it generated increased flow and liquidity demand, enabling us to grow our wholesale bank by leveraging our global markets and market-making capabilities. What started as a client facilitation has evolved into a sophisticated wholesale banking franchise, integrating investment banking, institutional access, and other capabilities. Through the combination of strong retail distribution with wholesale and market-making capabilities, we have built a powerful ecosystem that improves execution quality and liquidity for clients. In fact, we are leaders in equities, futures, options, and ETFs, representing roughly 50% of these markets. Additionally, we have created a complete investment banking, offering a full range of capital market solutions to our corporate clients.

This robust structure benefits us in several ways, as it not only diversifies our revenue streams, but also generates multiple synergies with our investment business. We have been gaining relevance in GCM, for example, and we will continue to invest in strengthening our franchise in the coming years. Finally, in credit agribusiness receivables, we are leader in distribution as well as in real estate funds. Our wholesale bank has posted strong results over the past few years, and there is much more to come as we keep investing in our franchise. Now, let's move on to the next slide and see more details on our progress agenda. Looking ahead, over the coming years, we will continue working on different business opportunities. At this stage, we understand that XP is ready to address and capture share in new markets, being credit and SMBs, the main prospects in the long-term agenda.

In SMBs, we will leverage Brazil's largest advisor network to expand our reach and deepen relationships. Moreover, we'll broaden our product portfolio beyond investments and assets to generate more engagement and address SMB's day-to-day financial needs more holistically. When it comes to credit, we see opportunities for both individuals and corporates. For individuals, credit acts as a catalyst for our investment business, helping us move toward greater primacy. Expanding our tailored solutions, particularly for high-income segments, will be central to our agenda. For corporate clients, we remain focused on structured solutions and expanding our corporate product offering to improve competitiveness, including receivables, government-sponsored funds, and real estate solutions. Overall, our strategy is to expand our credit offering while maintaining the conservative, prudent approach that has long defined our business. These opportunities are once again, medium to long term.

I will now hand the presentation over to Victor, who will discuss the quarter and full-year financial results. Thank you.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

... Thank you, Maffra, and good evening, everyone. Before I start, I would like to do a quick recap of some achievements and commitments for the past two years. First, corporate restructuring. We are now entering into the final phase of our corporate restructuring, in which we will further concentrate activities within XP Bank, materially improving our capital and funding cost. The new structure has increased our competitiveness, optimizing our warehouse strategies during the year. We already captured part of these benefits in 2025, with reduction in funding costs, plus the reduction in cost of equity through the emission of subordinate notes. And we expect to have another positive impact in 2026 and the following years.

As a result, we see the expansion of both of our financial margin and EBT margin for 2025, and we expect to keep this pace for 2026. Second, our balance sheet management. In 2025, both our EPS and net income grew faster than our total assets and total risk-weighted assets. Combined with our disciplined capital allocation and distributions, this drove our ROE expansion of approximately 90 basis points, even though our BIS ratio is higher than 20. Third, efficiency. Our continued technology investments are delivering operational leverage across many business fronts, allowing us to keep our investment pace while we keep a stable efficiency ratio year-over-year. So now, starting with total gross revenue. In our fourth quarter, total gross revenue reached BRL 5.3 billion, representing a 12% increase year-over-year and 7% sequentially.

For the full year of 2025, total gross revenue was BRL 19.5 billion, growing 8% compared to 2024. The performance highlight was corporate and issuer services, with a strong second half of 2025. When we compare to gross revenue breakdown on the right-hand side of this slide, in 2025, retail maintained 75% of total revenues and corporate issuer services gained its space. Now, let's move on to the next slide with more details on the different business. In the 4Q25, retail revenues totaled BRL 3.9 billion, up 8% year-over-year and 4% sequentially. For the full year, retail gross revenue reached BRL 14.6 billion, increased 8% versus last year.

Retail revenue growth in 2025 was supported by float for both investments and checking accounts, new verticals with credit card, retirement plans, and insurance leading the way, and as a new initiative, international investments. Fixed income performance, we have a strong first half of 2025 and decent figures for the second half, supported by our warehousing strategy. So now let's turn to corporate and issuer services. In the fourth quarter, revenues reached BRL 895 million, representing a 49% increase year-over-year and a 23% increase sequentially. This was the strongest performance in our history for this business, both in corporate and issuer services. The strong performance was driven by a robust activity in the DCM space, reaccelerating from a softer first half.

In addition, our ability to cross-sell and deliver a broader set of solutions to our corporate clients, such as derivatives and credit, that continued to support the revenues, leveraging on our strong distribution capabilities across the platform. For the full year of 2025, corporate and issuer services revenue totaled BRL 2.7 billion, up 19% compared to 2024, making a new level of corporate revenues and consolidating this segment as an important business line for XP. And now, let's move to our SG&A and efficiency ratios. SG&A in the fourth quarter amounted BRL 1.7 billion, growing 10% year-over-year and 4% quarter-over-quarter. For the full year, SG&A totaled BRL 6.3 billion, reflecting continuing investments in technology such as AI and CRM, and also our expansion of our advisor network.

As I mentioned earlier, it is the operational leverage captured from technology and innovation developments that allow us to keep our elevated investment pace in different areas of the business while keeping the same efficiency level. Additionally, the efficiency ratio in 2026 should remain broadly in line with 2025 levels, without any material change. As we can see on the right-hand of this slide, our last twelve months efficiency ratio for the fourth quarter stood at 24.7, stable compared to 2024. Our adjusted EBT reached BRL 1.5 billion in the 4Q25, increasing 20% year-over-year and 16% quarter-over-quarter, with an adjusted EBT margin of 31.3%, up 252 basis points year-over-year, and 271 basis points quarter-over-quarter.

That means that we have reached the range of our guidance margin during this quarter. For the full year of 2025, adjusted EBT totaled BRL 5.5 billion, growing 10% versus last year, with an EBT margin of 29.6%, expanding 52 base points year-over-year. On the next slide, we will see our adjusted net income. Adjusted net income for the quarter was BRL 1.3 billion, up 10% year over year and stable sequentially. Our net margins were 26.9% in the 4Q25, nine base points lower year-over-year, and 166 base points lower sequentially.... For the full year, adjusted net income reached BRL 5.2 billion, growing 15% compared to 2024, with 28.3% net margin, 173 base points expansion in the period.

Let's move on the next slide to talk about capital management. Starting with capital returns, in 2025, we returned BRL 2.4 billion in capital to shareholders for dividends and buybacks. We also continue to have our BRL 1 billion share buyback program currently open. On the right-hand side of this slide, you can see the evolution of our payout ratio over the years, including last year, we had a close to 15% payout, considering both buybacks and dividends. Now, talking about earnings per share and ROE. Once again, we would like to highlight that our earnings per share continues to grow faster than net income, driven by our consistent buyback execution, just like we explored in the previous slide. Adjusted EPS in the fourth quarter was BRL 2.56, growing 15% year-over-year, and 4% quarter-over-quarter.

For the full year, adjusted EPS reached 9.81 BRL, increasing 18% versus last year. Only in 2025, we have retired more than 24 million shares, approximately 4% of the total shares outstanding. Now, looking at our profitability, ROE and ROTE. We see our adjusted return on equity for 2025 reached 23.9%, a 94 BPS expansion, while return on tangible equity was 29.5%, a 78 basis points expansion versus 2024. This reflects our capital disciplines that allow us to consistently return capital to shareholders, while simultaneously growing and investing in the business to further differentiate ourselves from our peers. Finally, on capital ratio and risk-weighted assets, we closed the quarter with a BIS ratio of 20.4%. With the CET1 ratio at 17.3%.

In 2026, we will operate the business with a high BIS ratio during the year. We are comfortable with getting our BIS ratio to our target range of 19-16 toward the end of the year for capital distributions, while still maintaining a comfortable capital buffer. Additionally, we ended the year with a CET1 ratio of 17.3, compared to our peer average of 12. If we were running the business at the same CET1 of 12, our ROE would have been above 30. Now, looking at the right-hand side of this slide, you can see our RWA breakdown by category. Risk-weighted assets totaled BRL 119 billion, growing 13% year-over-year and 11% quarter-over-quarter.

As we expected and communicated on certain occasions, total RWA growth was lower than our net income and EPS for the year, even if a strong performance from the wholesale business. In parallel, our total assets, adjusted for assets under management from retirement plans, grew 8% versus 2024, also less than our bottom line. More specifically, during the quarter, we increased the warehousing of fixed income securities, mainly corporate credit, aligned with strong DCM activity, our growing capacity to originate corporate deals, and market timing opportunities. Lastly, because of this increase in warehousing, our value at risk from which important companies credit risk spread, went to BRL 39 million, or 17 basis points of our RWA, stable on a year-over-year perspective and four basis points higher sequentially, but still in a very conservative level.

We expect to distribute a portion of these assets at the beginning of 2026. This level of warehousing capability was only possible through the development of XP Bank and funding structure, as previously highlighted. With that, I end my presentation and hand it over to Maffra, so he can make his final remarks, and then we go to the Q&A.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Thanks, Victor. Before the Q&A, I would like to quickly go over the strategic foundations directing our priorities for 2026. Excellence is our main growth pillar. Over the past years, we have invested heavily in scalable process, governance, and technology, and in 2026, we begin to see these investments maturing and starting to translate into results. This is reinforced by a skilled and well-trained sales force, with aligned incentives, ensuring consistent execution across the organization. We continue to invest in a highly disciplined manner, particularly focused on wholesale banking and the B2C channel, while refining our segmentation to ensure a clear and accurate value proposition for each client profile. This will enable us to grow with quality in a profitable and sustainable manner. On the capital front, our priority is to sustain strong and consistent returns, backed by a conservative capital structure.

This discipline provides the flexibility to operate across different market scenarios, maintaining resilience and readiness to capture opportunities. Together, these foundations ensure that we enter 2026 with a solid business structure and disciplined capital allocation. Lastly, before starting the Q&A, I would like to address an ongoing topic within the financial system. First of all, we would like to express our deep concern regarding everything that has been revealed in recent months, involving Banco Master and the extent of irregularities identified. We also want to acknowledge the important and diligent work carried out by the Central Bank, as well as the responsible media coverage that has helped Brazilian society better understand, with greater transparency, what has occurred. Through ABBC and FEBRABAN, we are actively supporting structural improvements aimed at preventing situations like this from happening again in our financial system.

The Central Bank has been advancing in the right direction over the past years, although we understand some relevant adjustments are still necessary. That said, this change must be implemented responsibly, so that Brazil does not risk reversing the significant progress achieved in recent decades in terms of competition and a broader and more efficient access to financial products and services. We should be careful not to adopt measures whose unintended consequence would be to reestablish excessive banking concentration, or to enable business models built on consumers' lack of information. Or, as Director Galípolo rightly pointed out some months ago, products that function as a reversing Robin Hood. For more than a decade, the Central Bank has consistently pursued an agenda to increase competition and improve both quality and the cost of financial services through initiatives such as BC+.

Digital banks and investment platforms have played a central role in this transformation, expanding access to banking service without fees and reducing long-standing asymmetries in traditional investment products, such as Poupança saving accounts, PIC, and títulos de capitalização. 25 years ago, we helped transform the system by building the first open platform in Brazil, giving clients across all income levels access to financial education and high quality investment products. Over time, we have contributed to reshaping the market by fostering competition, improving product quality, reducing costs, and ultimately delivering better outcomes for our clients. We do offer proprietary products, but we have always distributed third-party solutions, including from competitors. Choice, transparency, and alignment with the client always come first. We do not charge abusive or opaque fees, and clients pay nothing to open or maintain an account with us.

Our mission is simple: to improve people's lives by helping them invest better. This principle guides every decision we make and remains the foundation of our work as we continue to support Brazilians in managing their money, investing responsibly, and planning for their future. André Parize will now start our Q&A session.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Thank you, Maffra. Now we're gonna start the Q&A. The first question is from Eduardo Rosman, from BTG. Rosman, you may proceed.

Eduardo Rosman (Senior Equity Research Analyst)

Hi. Hi, everyone. I have two questions for Maffra. The first one is regarding, you know, the ambition to become Brazil's leading investment platform by 2033. Can you provide a little bit more detail? You know, why, why 2033? What's the metrics that you use to, to define that, that being a leading firm? Is it that market share that you see, revenue, client base, you know, or something else? And, and, and do you believe that doing more of the same but better will be enough to reach this goal, or would you require more powerful banking and credit capabilities? That would, that would be the first one, and the second one, regarding your entry into the controlling group, practically speaking, what does that change mean to you? Thanks.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Good evening, everyone, again, and thank you for your questions, Rosman. The first question, it's when we say that we want to be leaders in investments in 2023, it's about market share. Okay, so that means that we have our internal plans here, our long-term view is to become leaders in 2033, in market share, and that's the... It's 2033 because our plans, every plan that we have gives us that we can get there in seven years, okay? So that's the number, the reasons. When we look how much money, net new money, we have to bring in the next years, by different channels, by different segments, the plans, they point out that we can get there in 2033. How we get there?

First, with the third wave, okay, so, as we mentioned in the past, earnings call, in all the conference, we have been investing a lot on the third wave, on democratizing, wealth planning for retail clients in Brazil. So democratizing the service that only private banking clients or even, multifamily offshore clients have in Brazil. So that's the, the main point here. It's-

... A lot of people don't get how big is the change here, because most of the financial companies in Brazil and banks, they still have, like, the model of pushing products, okay? It can be basket of products, an investment portfolio, but it's a product-driven approach. We have been changing that for the past two years. We have changed incentives, we have changed the way of serving clients, we have done a new segmentation on the company, new value propositions, and we are seeing big improvements in all the numbers, churn, NPS, and a lot of other metrics here. So we are very excited with the next years, when we look everything that we have been doing on foundations and changing almost changing the business model in the past years for the future.

Of course, we have different strategies for different segments. We have been investing a lot on the private banking platform in the past three years. We have been gaining market share in the past two years, and last year, 2025, it accelerated, and we believe that we can grow faster here on private banking. On the middle, the affluent clients, it's more of the same with more intensity, with more technology, with more process, with the new value proposition of more service, more wealth planning. And when we go to the retail clients, we have found a new way of serving, more goal-based, low human touch, so a completely different value proposition that is becoming a reality, I would say, in the last, in the last year, and that we are very confident that we can accelerate in the next years.

So different strategies for different segments, but all based on the third wave here. So of course, as you mentioned, the full ecosystem, the banking part, insurance, all of that reinforce the value proposition for investor clients. And as you have seen in the past quarters and past years, we are like, every quarter, every year, like better on the cross-sell products, and we have a big roadmap for the next quarters here. So but we are ready to accelerate in the future, okay? About the second question, the control, being 100% honest with you, for myself, nothing changed. I've been with the company for 11 years. I was a partner, in a different way, but I was a partner.

I have always acted as owner of the company, so nothing changed on, on the way I, I behave or the way I see the company. But I believe it's even a stronger alignment between the executives that are running the company, José Berenguer and I, alongside Fabrício Almeida and Guilherme Sant’Anna, so four executives that run the company on a daily basis, and of course, Guilherme. So I believe it's a stronger alignment for the long term, but nothing changed the way we manage the company here. And besides that, Gabriel, Bruno, and Bernardo, they continue to be a shareholder in the company. They continue on the board, so it's a natural evolution here, a natural process, so there's no big change here on the company.

Eduardo Rosman (Senior Equity Research Analyst)

Great! Thanks a lot, Maffra.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Thiago Batista, UBS. Thiago, you may proceed.

Thiago Batista (Executive Director and Senior Research Analyst)

Oh, you hear me?

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Yes.

Thiago Batista (Executive Director and Senior Research Analyst)

Oh, okay. Hi, Maffra, Mansur, Parize, Antonio. I have one question regarding the recommendation that CVM released yesterday about the international internalization of orders. In my understanding, this should be a little bit positive for your RLP business. But do you have any view if this is really positive or not for XP? And the second question on the taxes. We normally complain when the taxes were low, now we're complaining that the tax increased.

But my question on the taxes is trying to understand if this hike in the taxes in this quarter is related to the change in the Coliseu structure, and also if this is linked with the consumption of the tax on tax losses going forward, you reduced it or XP reduced it by BRL 700 million-BRL 800 million of those tax rates only in one quarter, if all those things are correlated?

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

... It's Thiago here, so I will take the first question. It's a very positive news for us once you don't have the cap, and you can include other assets, so it's very positive, okay? You remember that we were the first company back in 2015. I remember was the one responsible for building RLP back in 2015 here for XP. And until 2019 was a big journey to make the product regulated, so and today, seeing the product like evolving, not having cap, going to other assets, other type of instruments, so that's very positive because we are the largest market making in Brazil for retail clients.

So, it's positive for business, it's positive for the market, for the clients, so and of course, we will generate more revenues and more results for our market making. So it's positive.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Hi, Thiago, this is Victor. First of all, taxes, I think we talked a lot about that in the past. Our base tax rate is something near 15%. If the business is more toward the banking activity, investment banking, DCM, and broker dealer, we're gonna pay a bit more, and if the business is more towards market making, we're gonna pay a bit less. If you look at the revenue mix for the quarter, the main highlights was issuer services and corporate banking, both, of course, made in the inside the bank and the broker dealer, and that's why we are paying more taxes. Also, those revenues are less heavy in terms of commission. Those assets were not distributed to retail clients, so EBT margin associated to those revenues are also higher. Talking about the Coliseu structure, it's the...

This change will only happen in 2026. It, it did not happen yet in 2025, so it has nothing to do with the taxes. The taxes are an effect of the revenue mix. I'm sorry, what was the other question?

Thiago Batista (Executive Director and Senior Research Analyst)

Was if this was the higher taxes was the cause of the reduction in the tax losses carry forward?

Victor Mansur (CFO)

It's not about... It's not because of that. It's the revenue mix that explain both revenue, tax and EBT.

Thiago Batista (Executive Director and Senior Research Analyst)

Okay. Very clear. Thanks so very much. Thanks very much.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from, Gustavo Schroden, from Citi. Gustavo, you may proceed.

Gustavo Schroden (Sell Side Equity Research Director)

Hello, guys. Thanks for the question. I'm gonna do two questions as well. So the first one is regarding the reimbursements by the FGC to the depositors of Banco Master, so estimated in BRL 40 billion. So how has XP been performing? So I believe that the company has designed a strategy to capture these volumes, a part of this volume. So any color on that would be great. Should we expect any positive impact in the first quarter of 2026 regarding it? And my second question is regarding the NPS. We saw a decline in NPS to 65 points from +70 points baseline. So could you elaborate on this? What's behind this decline, and how the company is addressing this decline in NPS? Thank you.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Okay, thank you for the question. I will start with the NPS question. It's the drop is related to two events that we had on the fourth quarter. We had the Ambipar structured notes, and we had a lot of news and noise about Banco Master, back, especially in December. So there is a selection bias for clients who were impacted by these two events. They are more propensity like to respond the NPS than clients that were not impacted by the events that happened. So when we look at margin, we see the NPS improving again. So we believe it's gonna be temporary, affected by the two events that I just mentioned.

To give a color that the impact is not that material. Usually when we have big maturing of fixed income, for example, inflation government bonds, or like big corporate maturing bonds in Brazil, usually we retain 70%-75% of the amount, because usually people take the liquidity to pay bills or to do something outside of XP. So give or take, is 70% the retention rate, okay? When we look, Banco Master, today is above 85%, okay? So it's higher than a regular maturing event. So I'm not sure how we are going to disclose the net new money for Q1, but somehow we will have like to show these numbers.

So there's a huge inflow of money from Banco Master, as we are keeping more than 85%, but not sure yet how we are going to disclose, but we'll disclose between net new money and the retention. Okay?

Gustavo Schroden (Sell Side Equity Research Director)

Okay, great, Maffra. Thank you.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Guilherme Grespan, from J.P. Morgan. Grespan, you may proceed.

Guillherme Grespan (Equity Research Associate)

... Hi, good evening. Thank you, Parize, Maffra, Mansur, thank you for the call. My question is just on the outlook for 2026 in this environment that we are seeing. Fourth quarter still showed similar trends, right? Insurance service is very strong, corporate solutions very strong. Fixed income a little bit weaker, equities recovering a little bit, but still timid. But my question is more going forward, like, question may be one, do you think this performance of corporate solutions and insurance services is sustainable in the beginning of this year? And question number two, if this environment that we are seeing here to date, it, it's a good performance of risk assets, but it's mostly led by foreigners, right? We don't see a huge change on the local dynamics.

If you believe you're benefiting much from this environment or no, you don't benefit as much because it's mostly foreigner driven, this good performance. Thank you so much.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Hi, Guilherme, thank you for our question, Victor here. First, talking about corporate, I think our corporate business is in another platform. We evolved a lot in terms of product, cross-sell clients, and do so, I think we are able to keep the space over 2026. Talking about the performance of the other risk assets, as you said, it's still too soon to say that this will reflect in take rate. If you see volumes both in fixed income and equities from retail clients, they are not going up. The movement is mainly driven by foreign clients.

I think if the performance keep this way over the year, we may see, we may see a bit of trading activity coming from individuals, and of course, they will reflect in actual revenues, but it's still too soon to talk about that. Also, in terms of fixed income, I think we need to see the central bank delivering the cuts that we have in the interest rate curve. If that happen, we may see a decompression of the duration in fixed income, something that we talk a lot about over the last two quarters. But, but again, we need to see the market, the marketing going in this direction, both in equities and fixed income and rates, to be able to see something reflecting our revenues.

Guillherme Grespan (Equity Research Associate)

That's clear. Thank you.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Great, next question is from Marcelo Mizrahi, from Bradesco BBI. Mizrahi, you may proceed.

Marcelo Mizrahi (Equity Research Analyst)

Hello, everyone. Thanks for the opportunity. Congratulations on the results. Two questions. So first is regarding the guidance. So if you guys plan to update the guidance to 2026 with the environment that we are talking now, first. Second, the guidance of revenues and the guidance of margins. Second question is regarding the perspective to have... I think it's better to just talk about the guidance, please. Thank you.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Mizrahi, yes, the guidance holds. We have no reason today like to change the guidance. We believe 2026 is gonna be a stronger year than 2025. As we have been talking in the past quarters, we are projecting to get very close to the guidance. Margin is there already, okay? And when we look revenues, if you project, we are very close, so there's no reason to change the guidance right now.

Marcelo Mizrahi (Equity Research Analyst)

I remember my question. So my question is regarding the RWA. So we saw an increase of this, the leverage, so definitely because of the offers. So looking forward, how much this, this, uh, this leverage, so the RWA could, could increase? So you guys have some cap on that or some targets that you can share with us? Thank you.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Thank you. Thank you for our question, Zahi. First, as usual, we bought assets for our house book in the fourth quarter to have assets to sell to our clients in the first. That is exactly what is happening. I think what we can say about RWA is the same we said last year. We are very confident that net income will grow faster than the risk, and that will be the case for 2026.

Marcelo Mizrahi (Equity Research Analyst)

Any perspective of adjustments on the payout policy to increase payouts or to reduce the payouts with that? Thank you.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

We have our BIS ratio guidance for the end of the year. As we said during the presentation, we're gonna pass the year of more strong capital base, but we are confident that we're gonna be inside the guidance by the end of 2026.

Marcelo Mizrahi (Equity Research Analyst)

Okay. Thank you, guys.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Tito Labarta from Goldman Sachs. Tito, you may proceed.

Tito Labarta (VP)

Great. Thanks, Parize. Good evening, Maffra, Mansur, thanks for the call, and thank you for my question. Following up on Mizrahi's questions on the guidance, just so I'm clear and make sure I didn't miss anything. The guidance you had given was back at the investor day, where you guided for gross revenues of BRL 22.8-BRL 26.8. You know, I mean, even at the low end, that would imply almost 20% revenue growth year-over-year, just to make sure that's the guidance we're talking about. And that would be a big acceleration from, you know, the 8% growth that we're seeing here this year. And you also mentioned net inflows, you expect to remain around BRL 20 billion, so we don't see an acceleration there.

Just to make sure that I'm understanding the guidance on the revenues that we should be thinking about. Thank you.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

Thank you, Tito. Yes, we are talking about the same guidance. So, the number to get at the bottom of the guidance this year is 17%, the growth for revenues for 2026. So as we have been talking, it's not gonna be easy, but, if we miss, it's gonna be by a small percentage, so there's no reason like to change our guidance for three years if we miss by a very small amount. So and again, we believe it is possible to get there. Okay, so... And about that new money, we don't see any reason today to change the... It's not a guidance, but we have been talking about the BRL 20 billion level. It's what happened in the past three quarters.

So there's no reason to change for the next quarters. But again, for our ambition to get to 2033, as a leader in investments, it will have to accelerate at some point in the future, but we don't see that happening on Q1 or Q2, for all the reasons we are, and numbers we are seeing here.

Tito Labarta (VP)

Okay. No, thanks for clarifying, Maffra. That's good. Good to hear as well. And I guess the driver of the acceleration, I mean, you're saying first Q2, Q, maybe you don't see it, so second half of 2026, as interest rates come down, I think, I mean, equity and fixed income are still, like, the biggest portion of your revenues. You think that should accelerate, I guess, as rates come down? Is that the right way to think about that?

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

No, we're not considering, like, a better take rate here or, like, a market improvement, to get there. They're, like, all levers that we control, so we are confident that we can grow this year, at higher pace than 2025.

Tito Labarta (VP)

Okay, but it is back-end loaded, right? More second half of the year, if I missed the comment earlier.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

We always have seasonality. This year was lower than the past years, but usually we do 40, 45, and 55 of our results on the first... It was a little bit more flattish in 2025, but yes, usually we accelerate more on second half of the year.

Tito Labarta (VP)

Okay, perfect. Great. Thank you so much, Maffra.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Pedro Leduc from Itaú. Leduc, you may proceed.

Pedro Leduc (Equity Research Analyst)

Okay, guys. Thank you so much. On first question on SG&A, so you grew for the full year about 8%. Now, I understand you're going through an investment cycle. So here, I'd like to hear your thoughts on what the priorities will be in 2026. What are the pains that you're trying to solve with investments? And you mentioned in the call, I believe, stable efficiency for 2026. Now we're talking about high teens revenue growth. So, help us reconcile that SG&A, really understand what priorities you are doing and where we should look for signs of success of these investments. Thank you.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Hi, Leduc. Thank you. Thank you for our question. I think our, our main investments will be, as always, in our, our core business. So we're gonna be investing in advisory expansion over, over the year, the same as the last years. We're gonna be investing in technology. So we have a lot of technology investments in AI. Those technologies will be used to customer relationship management and advisory productive, both focused on having more account load, more client, and more NPS. And I think that's the way that we're gonna measure that. And also, we have some investments in our international platform and our PME platform, cash account, bank account, every, every product around the, the companies, the companies that we're gonna provide over 2026 and 2027.

I think that's mostly, those are the big chunks of investments that we're gonna do in 2026, the same as we did in 2025.

Pedro Leduc (Equity Research Analyst)

Okay, and the efficiency level you mentioned are flattish, that talks with the mid-teens revenues?

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Yeah, the, as Maffra said, we are confident that we are gonna pursue our guidance level, and that implies the efficiency ratio and the expenses are gonna grow. And of course, we have some kind of maneuverability here in the number, if the revenue doesn't come, if they are faster than what we expect, but the number is around that.

Pedro Leduc (Equity Research Analyst)

Okay. Sorry, just to be picky on this part, on the revenues, we understand you're gonna go through some structured changes that will change also income tax and revenues. So when we talk about, you know, mid-teens, high teens revenues, that's excluding any accounting changes that will happen as you transfer these operations, correct? So be comparable.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

... If you look at 2025, we did a lot of restructuring over the group. When we sent some companies to the bank and we start changing the way we look at the indebtedness in the company, we lost something around BRL 500 million in revenues over 2025. That went to the net interest margin, and we said nothing about that. So I think the growth of the revenues in the area, we're gonna have a lot of mixes. The same as we have in 2025, with other companies going to the bank, we're paying some corporate debt and changing for banking debt, and therefore, are gonna reduce their revenues, and we're gonna have some positive effects also. And I think in the net, we're gonna be delivering the numbers that Maffra said.

Pedro Leduc (Equity Research Analyst)

Okay. No, that's very clear. The overall message is very clear. Thank you so much.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Antonio Reale from Bank of America. Antonio, you may proceed.

Antonio Reale (Co-Head of European Banks Equity Research)

Hey, thank you for your time. I have two questions on my side. The first one is a follow-up on taxes. I understood that you should have an average tax rate of close to 15 and higher than that, if revenues are more skewed to banking. But now, if I'm looking here in your tax withholding in funds line, I see a very sharp decline QoQ, and this line very below your historical average. And it does not look related to the revenue mix. So if you could please explain what's it related for? And also a second one, AI. I think it's an important topic, particularly when you are shifting between business models. So you are looking towards migrating towards a B2C model.

I understand that this is an opportunity to grow in the B2C with lower expenses, lower investments, but also it's a trap, right? Because it's a model without in-person interaction, and that could be mimicked by AI, by another player. So how do you see your strategic shift right now considering AI? Thank you.

Victor Mansur (CFO)

Hi, Antonio. I'm gonna take the first question here. First, it's very hard to talk about the results of individual entities in the group. And as we said before, it's. You cannot explain the performance of one business or another, looking at the Gladius or the Coliseu performance. And also, after 2026, if the restructuring of the group, we're not gonna have to have tax anymore, and we're not gonna disclose this number. So, I think the important thing here is to look at the mix. If you look at the accounting levels, you're gonna see the same things we are looking at the managerial levels.

You're gonna see the banking revenues, banking fees, credit fees, fees from the same offerings, and that was the strong part of the quarter, and that's why we are paying higher taxes than before.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

The second one. So not sure if it was clear on the presentation, but we do not believe in taking the financial advisor, the human, out of the equation here, okay? So it's always using technology, using AI to improve, to make the advisor better, okay? So we have different AI agents here to help the advisor to have more relationship with the clients, to take the operational workload out from the advisor. We have a lot of tools that we have been creating in the past two years to help the advisors to perform better, to increase their account load, to increase productivity, to increase the level of service that we deliver to customers, but it's always how to improve the human. Of course, when we talk about the...

Remember that I said we have three big segments here? Of course, we have some other in-between segments, but three big ones. Of course, for the zero to 100K segment, here, we can do 100% digital, okay? But we don't believe or we don't like the idea of having, like, a million-BRL client or 10 million-BRL clients going only through, like, an AI. It doesn't help. It doesn't happen because it's a trust business, okay? So people like to talk to people when they are talking about their lives, their dreams, so they want to talk to someone. So the whole idea here is how we use AI to improve the performance, to improve the service that we deliver to our customers. So we have been developing a lot of initiatives here.

It's some of them are very promising. For example, today, we listen, we read, so we have governance over all the interactions that our B2C internal advisors have with customers. We classify 100% of them, so we know everything that's happening. We give advice for the internal advisors about what they are doing right or wrong. We give product advice, we give advice of interactions with customers. So we are very excited with the results that we are getting from AI on the company and, but again, it's not about replacing the human or the human advisor, it's about enhancing the advisor, okay? So that's the idea.

Antonio Reale (Co-Head of European Banks Equity Research)

Thank you.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, next question is from Daniel Vaz from Safra. Vaz, you may proceed.

Daniel Vaz (Lead Research Analyst)

Thank you, Parize, and thank... Sorry, guys. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Parize, and good night, Maffra, good night, Mansur. I wanna try to understand the aftermath of Banco Master, right, episode, both for XP internally and for your client base. So trying to break this down in two parts. First, for you, any way, any changes in the way you filter your products to distribute? I mean, how did that episode was discussed in your board of directors? So is it got to the point that you discussed, like, are we going to distribute these types of products again? So how is the filter that you wanna do after it, or if there is any that you wanna put additionally?

To your clients' behavior, such as, the ones that were involved, probably, you mentioned, I think it was in the past presentation about clients going to more risk-averse CDs, kind of 50% of your marginal allocation in fixed income was a little more to, high liquidity products and less yields. So wanna try to understand, like, what has changed in the third quarter so far to the fourth quarter so far, in terms of investment decisions by your clients, and mainly on the aftermath of the episode of Banco Master. Thank you.

Thiago Maffra (CEO)

It's important to remember that, our clients, they, 99.9% of them, they are like, under the FGC, the FGC, Brazil FGC, coverage, so our clients, they didn't lose any money. On the opposite, they, they made, an investment that, had a good return, okay? So our clients, they didn't lose any money. We don't recommend Banco Master over FGC, as we don't recommend, for any, bank below a certain threshold, of our internal rating, okay? So of course, every time that something like that happen, we look, for our internal, controls, our credit analysis, to see what we can improve, and we are improving, okay. It's part of the journey.

But remember that we have more than 50% of the market share of all middle-sized and small-sized banks in Brazil. So because remember that the traditional incumbent banks, they don't distribute third-party CDs, so it's basically only the independent investment platforms, so. And we are the largest one in the market. So. And remember that in some other cases, Dicasa, BRK, we didn't distribute the Portocredi. We didn't have the products on our platform, okay? So, our credit analysis was good in some events in the past. When you have frauds or the kind of events that everyone is reading on the news right now, it's almost impossible. Otherwise, no one would lose money on credit. No one would have lost money on Lojas Americanas or Eike Batista companies or other frauds, okay?

So when you have this type of problems, it's hard to get, but of course, we have to look inside, see what we have to improve in our controls. But again, we have only distributed products that we believe they are suitable for our clients on the right risks for the right, customer profile. We have internal controls today that we cannot allocate more of, any type of, fixed income, products with credit risk, above the threshold, for that rating, for that type of client, okay? So we are very strict on controlling that. And again, our clients, they didn't lose any money here, on, on Master, okay? So that's important. About the changing mix after the event, we don't see any big change, okay, to be honest.

We don't see. Of course, you have one or other name that were involved on the same problem. For those names, they are not even on our platform for a few months or even years, okay? But besides that, we don't see big changes for other type of small or mid-sized banks, okay.

Daniel Vaz (Lead Research Analyst)

No, pretty clear. Thank you.

André Parize (Investor Relations Officer)

Okay, our earnings call is coming to an end. Thank you for your time. We see that there are more people who want to make questions, so our team will be more than happy to attend you. Just contact us and, see you soon. Thank you very much.