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Adrian Black

Zip shares zapped on earnings miss, rising bad debts

Zip's total transaction value swelled by more than a third to $8.4 billion in its latest half. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

An Australian buy now, pay later company has had more than a third of its value wiped in a single day, after shareholders dumped the stock in the face of rising bad debts and an earnings miss.

Zip Co's share price tumbled almost 40 per cent on Thursday, despite cash earnings soaring to a best-ever $124.3 million in the six months to December 2025, up more than 85 per cent on the equivalent half.

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