Better Health for All

Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates a financial services platform, and its core business activities do not directly involve health-related products or services. Therefore, most KPIs under 'Better Health for All' are not applicable. The company's products and services, such as investing in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies, have no significant positive or negative direct health impact. While Robinhood offers financial education and aims to make financial knowledge accessible,

these are not considered direct health benefits or preventative health measures as defined by the rubric. The company provides mental health benefits and an Environmental Health and Safety program for its U.S. employees, but these are internal employee benefits and not related to the health impact of its principal goods or services on users or the general public. There is no evidence of revenue from products with established negative health outcomes, nor specific disclosures about health risks or benefits of its financial products. The company does not collect or manage health-related data, nor does it engage in clinical trials, pharmaceutical activities, or food production.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

Robinhood offers commission-free trading for stocks, ETFs, and their options, with no fees to open or maintain an account, and a minimum investment of $1.

Gold subscribers receive no interest on the first $1,000 in margin borrowed. However, the company charges various regulatory and options trading fees, such as a combined $0.04 per options contract and varying index options fees ($0.35 for Gold subscribers, $0.50 without Gold). Robinhood's revenue includes fees for instant withdrawals and payment for order flow (PFOF), with a planned shift to a fee-based model for cryptocurrency that may lead to differences in total costs for customers. The company has faced significant regulatory penalties, including $45 million in SEC settlements in January 2025, $30 million from the NYDFS in August 2022, $13 million for SAR filing violations, and other fines totaling over $60 million. Robinhood offers financial education through programs like Money Drills, which has helped thousands of students since 2022, with 96% of participating students reporting improved financial management. However, the overall reach of these programs across its customer base is not specified. Robinhood's products are designed for simplicity and an intuitive interface, but specific readability levels are not provided. The company has expanded services to all U.S. states and largest territories, including Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but lacks specific data on coverage of banking deserts or underserved geographic regions.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

In 2022, Robinhood's CEO compensation was $1,297,529, with a median employee salary of $270,817, resulting in a pay ratio of 5:1.

The company's employee happiness score is 86/100, and 93% of employees named it a great place to work in 2020.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

No specific quantitative data or verifiable facts were found in the provided articles to assess Robinhood Markets, Inc. against the defined KPIs for Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing.

The articles primarily discuss general ethical conduct expectations for vendors and ESG performance without providing metrics on fair-trade certifications, audit frequencies, forced/child labor incidents, supply chain traceability, remediation speed, ethical clause coverage in contracts, high-risk material spend, or supplier diversity spend.

Honest & Fair Business

Robinhood has incurred $74.75 million in ethics-related regulatory fines in the past three years.

This includes a $45 million SEC fine in January 2025 for multiple securities law violations, and a $26 million FINRA fine plus $3.75 million in customer restitution in March 2025 for issues such as inaccurate disclosures and AML failures. Violations include failures to report suspicious trading, inadequate identity theft protections, unauthorized access to systems, and longstanding failures to maintain electronic communications. Robinhood Securities made over 11,800 deficient Electronic Blue Sheet submissions to the SEC, misreporting details for over 392 million transactions. The company's anti-money laundering (AML) programs have been cited for significant shortcomings, failing to detect, investigate, or report suspicious activity, and leading to a backlog of over 10,000 unreviewed alerts by the end of 2020. The average time to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) reached 198 days after initial flagging by the end of 2020, though this was reduced to 125 days by the end of 2021, and the backlog was resolved by mid-2022. Robinhood Financial also failed to sufficiently verify customer identities when opening thousands of accounts. Furthermore, between March 2020 and March 2021, approximately 1.6 billion template-based customer communications were not properly preserved due to third-party archiving vendor ingestion limits. The firm failed to respond to red flags of potential misconduct.

Kind to Animals

Robinhood Markets, Inc. operates as a financial services platform. The provided articles contain no specific data points regarding the company's direct involvement in activities related to animal welfare, such as cruelty-free certifications, animal testing, animal agriculture, or animal-derived ingredients.

Therefore, all KPIs are assessed as 'N/A' because the company's core business model does not intersect with these areas.

No War, No Weapons

The provided articles, including Robinhood's ESG reports and lobbying disclosures, do not contain specific, concrete data points directly relevant to any of the 'No War, No Weapons' KPIs. The ESG reports explicitly state that they do not contain data on topics such as arms contracts, dual-use technology, sales to embargoed regimes, peacebuilding investment, or conflict divestment.

Lobbying articles focus on financial legislation, not arms control. The vendor code of conduct outlines general ethical standards but lacks specific, quantifiable evidence for humanitarian procurement or human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas. Therefore, all KPIs related to this ethical value must be omitted due to a lack of explicit evidence.

Planet-Friendly Business

Robinhood's total Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions for FY2024 were 62,758 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (market-based), a slight decrease from 62,935 metric tons in FY2023.

Given its nature as a pure services provider and relatively low absolute emissions (0.062758 M tCO₂e), it falls under the N/A category for material GHG footprint. The company offsets 100% of its Scope 2 emissions through renewable energy purchases, procuring 6,550 MWh of Green-e® Energy Certified wind RECs in 2025 and covering 100% of office electricity for 2022-2023. It has invested in high-quality carbon removal credits, including reforestation and kelp sequestration, totaling 8,892 metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Robinhood funded five new solar plants in Michigan, expected to generate over 110,000 MWh of clean energy annually and avoid more than 52,000 tons of CO2. Composting and recycling programs have been implemented at headquarters since 2017 and at the Lake Mary, Florida location since 2018. No environmental compliance violations were reported.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

The provided articles do not contain specific, quantifiable data points for any of the KPIs related to 'Respect for Cultures & Communities'. While some articles mention general community engagement or partnerships for financial education, they do not provide metrics specifically tied to indigenous or local community groups, cultural impact assessments, cultural appropriation incidents, local employment, grievance mechanisms, FPIC, community governance, cultural preservation, local procurement, indigenous suppliers, cultural site protection, social license, cultural charitable giving, community fund allocation, language inclusivity, cultural incident response, or cultural sensitivity training completion rates.

The reports explicitly state a lack of specific data for many of these areas, and no evidence is provided to support the 'not applicable' tiers for KPIs where that might be relevant.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

Robinhood has implemented several waste reduction initiatives. Since 2017, its headquarters has had composting and recycling programs, aligning with California ZeroWaste initiatives.

A recycling program has also been in place at its Lake Mary, Florida location since 2018. Additionally, caterers at the headquarters provide compostable utensils, and low-flow faucets and toilets have been installed to reduce water usage. However, no specific quantitative data is provided for waste diversion rates, product recyclability, packaging sustainability, recycled content, single-use plastic reduction, take-back program coverage, circular design principles, hazardous waste management, product durability, repairability, waste audit frequency, zero waste certification, waste disposal violations, material efficiency, packaging-to-product ratio, waste reduction targets, supplier waste requirements, or customer waste education.