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We’ve rounded up some of the most popular stock trading platforms that offer stock lending:
SoFi Invest® has the Securities Lending Program for its investors, matching stocks with borrowers interested in short-selling the stocks to make a profit. As an investor, you could earn extra income from the interest payments that borrowers agree to make to borrow your stocks.
Tastytrade has its Fully Paid Securities Lending for its investors wishing to earn additional income of fully owned stocks and ETFs. By opting into the program, investors can expect half of the generated revenue from the stocks being loaned out.
Public.com offers its Fully Paid Securities Lending Program through Apex. If you agree, Apex loans out any whole stocks in your portfolio to other investors or institutions that pay an equivalent dividend payment. While SIPC does not cover the loaned stocks, Apex is required to set aside at least 110% of the stock’s cash equivalent to a partner bank should an issue arise.
Interactive Brokers (IBKR) offers stock lending in the form of its Stock Yield Enhancement Program. IBKR borrows your stocks and then finds other traders who wish to borrow these stocks and who are willing to pay interest. 50% of the income raised from lending the stocks will be paid to you. Any whole stocks in your fully owned stock portfolio will be considered for stock lending.
Once you decide to stock lend, Robinhood does the rest. The broker finds a suitable borrower for the stocks you fully own and wish to loan out. If there’s a match, you’ll receive a monthly payment from the borrower. Even while your stocks are loaned out, you can sell your stocks at any point to realize a gain or loss. While there’s no insurance for loaned-out stock, Robinhood will hold the cash equivalent of your loaned-out stock with a third-party bank. If Robinhood were to go under, the third-party bank would pay you the cash value of your loaned-out stock.
Beyond meeting the eligibility criteria for stock lending, it’s worth considering the features, costs and risks involved for any of the brokerage apps you plan to use, including the following:
Stock lending is not suited to all investors, especially not those new to the world of investing. This is mainly because you will need to fully own any stocks or securities before being able to loan them out, so some experience in trading will definitely help.
Each brokerage firm will have its own eligibility criteria for being able to stock lend, but most will require some prior trading experience. For Robinhood, investors must have some investing experience and need at least $5,000 in total account value or at least $25,000 reported income. For InteractiveBrokers, any investor wishing to get involved with stock loans will need to be approved for a margin account or have a cash account with a balance of more than $50,000.
A stock loan fee, also called the borrow fee, is set by a broker for a stock being loaned out. It is the responsibility of the borrower to pay this fee, but the amount can vary between brokers.
Meanwhile, a regular payment (the extra income) will be made to the investor for loaning out stocks to third parties. But it’s also worth noting that the tax you owe on these regular interest or equivalent dividend payments might be higher than on actual dividend payments.
Loan rates can also often change, so the regular payments you receive as an investor could fluctuate.
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