Section 1: Company Overview and Fundamentals
1.1 Company Overview:
Nu Holdings Ltd is a Brazil-based company that provides a digital banking platform. The Company offers its customers products across the five financial seasons: spending, saving, investing, borrowing, and protecting. Its spending solutions are designed to help customers pay for goods and services in their everyday lives with a customized credit line or instantly through a mobile phone while collecting loyalty points and rewards on applicable transactions.

1.2 The Key Positives, Negatives, and Investment summary


1.3 Key Metrics:
The graph below demonstrates that NU's revenues and gross profits have increased since inception and the revenue and gross profits are an increasing trend depicting increased demand for products and controlled cost of revenue with FY21 to be the best performing year.

1.4 Top 10 shareholders:
The top 10 shareholders together form ~51.31% of the total shareholding, signifying diverse shareholding. Sequoia Capital Global Equities and Galileo (PTC) Ltd are the biggest shareholders, holding the maximum stake in the company at ~15.67% and ~11.92%, respectively.

Section 2: Business Updates and Strategic Business Highlights
2.1 Recent Updates:
The below picture gives an overview of the recent updates:


2.2 Insights of Q3FY22:

Section 3: Key Risks

Section 4: Stock Recommendation Summary:
4.1 Price Performance and Technical Summary:



4.2 Fundamental Valuation
Valuation Methodology: Price/Book Value Per Share Multiple Based Relative Valuation


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Note 1: Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Note 2: The reference date for all price data, currency, technical indicators, support, and resistance levels is December 07, 2022. The reference data in this report has been partly sourced from REFINITIV.
Note 3: Investment decisions should be made depending on an individual's appetite for upside potential, risks, holding duration, and any previous holdings. An 'Exit' from the stock can be considered if the Target Price mentioned as per the Valuation and or the technical levels provided has been achieved and is subject to the factors discussed above.
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Technical Indicators Defined: -
Support: A level at which the stock prices tend to find support if they are falling, and a downtrend may take a pause backed by demand or buying interest. Support 1 refers to the nearby support level for the stock and if the price breaches the level, then Support 2 may act as the crucial support level for the stock.
Resistance: A level at which the stock prices tend to find resistance when they are rising, and an uptrend may take a pause due to profit booking or selling interest. Resistance 1 refers to the nearby resistance level for the stock and if the price surpasses the level, then Resistance 2 may act as the crucial resistance level for the stock.
Stop-loss: It is a level to protect against further losses in case of unfavorable movement in the stock prices.
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Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.