{"id":57313,"date":"2025-11-07T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57313"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:31:32","slug":"block-inc-to-hit-rule-of-40-by-2026-despite-70-million-party-says-jpmorgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57313","title":{"rendered":"Block Inc To Hit &#8216;Rule Of 40&#8217; By 2026 Despite $70 Million Party, Says JPMorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Block <\/strong><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Inc.<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/span> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\">XYZ<\/a>) third quarter may not have been as clean as investors hoped, but JPMorgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang isn&#8217;t losing faith. The analyst called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\/earnings\">third quarter results<\/a> &#8220;not as straightforward as hoped, but still solid overall,&#8221; and reaffirmed his Overweight rating on the stock with a $100 price target, arguing that &#8220;the right energy and pieces are in place&#8221; for Block to achieve the coveted Rule of 40 by 2026.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Track XYZ stock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company&#8217;s quarter was a mix of momentum and margin noise \u2014 and yes, a $70 million company event that weighed on profitability. But Huang said the focus should be on improving trends in both Cash App and Square, which together &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-stock-ratings\/analyst-color\/25\/11\/48721613\/block-inc-to-hit-rule-of-40-by-2026-despite-70-million-party-says-jpmorgan?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Block\" inc to hit of by despite million party says jpmorgan>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block Inc.&#8216;s (NYSE:XYZ) third quarter may not have been as clean as investors hoped, but JPMorgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang isn&#8217;t losing faith. The analyst called the third quarter results &#8220;not as straightforward as hoped, but still solid overall,&#8221; and reaffirmed his Overweight rating on the stock with a $100 price target, arguing that &#8220;the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-57313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}