PicS N.V. Class Action Lawsuit – PICS

Introduction

A securities class action lawsuit has been filed against PicS N.V. (NASDAQ: PICS), its officers and directors, controlling shareholders, and the IPO underwriters in connection with the Company's January 30, 2026 initial public offering. In the IPO, approximately 22.9 million shares of Class A common stock were sold to investors at $19.00 per share, generating gross proceeds of $434.3 million. The complaint alleges that the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with the IPO contained materially false and misleading statements and omissions regarding the quality of PicS' credit portfolio, the adequacy of its credit evaluation models, and undisclosed adverse trends in loan defaults that had materialized before the offering. Specifically, the complaint alleges that PicS had conducted a review of its credit loss parameters in December 2025, weeks before the IPO, which revealed significant deficiencies in its credit evaluation procedures and resulted in the reclassification of approximately R$590 million of loans from Stage 2 to Stage 3 (credit-impaired), none of which was disclosed to IPO investors. By June 4, 2026, PicS Class A common stock had fallen to less than $9.00 per share, representing a decline of more than 50% from the $19.00 IPO price, allegedly damaging shareholders who purchased in or traceable to the offering.

Company Profile

PicS N.V. is one of the largest digital banks in Brazil, offering payment, credit, insurance, and investment products through its digital platform. At the time of its IPO, the Company had been expanding its credit operations, having transitioned in October 2023 from an asset-light model to directly originating credit products on its balance sheet, with credit products accounting for 52% of total revenue by the fourth quarter of 2025.

Class Period

This class action lawsuit concerns PicS N.V.'s IPO. Investors who purchased PicS N.V. Class A common stock in and/or traceable to the Company’s January 30, 2026 initial public offering may be members of the proposed class.

Allegations

The complaint alleges that the Offering Documents issued in connection with PicS' IPO painted a materially misleading picture of the Company's credit portfolio health and the sophistication of its risk management capabilities. The Registration Statement and Prospectus highlighted PicS' purportedly "strict credit underwriting criteria," its deployment of "a new generation of customized credit models" using "exclusive behavior credit data," and claimed the Company's proprietary models delivered "up to 3.0 times more accuracy." The Offering Documents also presented the Company's Stage 3 formation rate, a key measure of loans migrating into default, as a stable 3.6% as of September 30, 2025, suggesting the credit portfolio was performing within historical norms.

According to the complaint, these representations were materially false and misleading because they concealed critical adverse developments that had occurred before the IPO. In December 2025, weeks before shares were sold to the public, PicS conducted an annual review of its expected credit loss parameters and determined that its historical credit evaluation policies and procedures were deficient. The Company implemented several methodological enhancements, including the introduction of renegotiation delinquency tracking, further specialization of credit models for newly launched products, adoption of more advanced machine learning techniques, and migration from benchmark-based loss given default assumptions to internally developed models. Critically, PicS also adopted a stricter policy to accelerate the migration of renegotiated non-performing exposures from Stage 2 to Stage 3. The application of these changes resulted in the reclassification of approximately R$590 million of exposures from Stage 2 (underperforming) to Stage 3 (credit-impaired, already in default), generating an incremental expected credit loss charge of R$88 million in the three months ended December 31, 2025.

The complaint further alleges that the Offering Documents materially overstated the quality and reliability of PicS' credit models and user data to inform the Company's underwriting practices, and failed to disclose that PicS had experienced a heightened Stage 3 formation rate of more than 7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, nearly double the 3.6% rate reported as of September 30, 2025. Plaintiffs allege that the Company also suffered from degradations in customer credit quality and heightened risks of default and loan impairment stemming from its expansion into materially riskier business lines, resulting in adverse financial and operational trends that predated the IPO and were internally projected to continue worsening. The complaint alleges these omissions violated Item 303 and Item 105 of SEC Regulation S-K, which required disclosure of known trends, uncertainties, and the most significant risk factors affecting the investment.

The Truth Emerges

On March 19, 2026, less than two months after the IPO, PicS filed a Form 6-K with the SEC reporting its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results, covering a period that ended before the IPO. The filing revealed that R$590 million of the Company's credit portfolio balances had been reclassified from Stage 2 to Stage 3, and that PicS had implemented a stricter policy in December 2025 to accelerate the classification of renegotiated non-performing exposures. The filing also disclosed that PicS had conducted an annual review of expected credit loss parameters and implemented changes to its credit-loss methodology, which the complaint alleges reflected deficiencies in its prior credit evaluation procedures. The reported Stage 3 formation rate for the fourth quarter of 2025 spiked to 7.1%, a 97% increase over the 3.6% rate as of the third quarter of 2025, the last figure available to investors from the Offering Documents.

The deterioration continued after the IPO. On June 2, 2026, PicS announced its first quarter 2026 financial results, reporting that Stage 3 loans had increased to 13% of its total credit portfolio. Non-performing loans with balances 15 to 90 days overdue reached 8.4% of the portfolio, up from 6.2% during the prior year comparable period, while non-performing loans more than 90 days past due reached 8.9%, up from 4.0% in the comparable period. According to the complaint, these disclosures showed accelerating credit deterioration that had allegedly been underway before investors purchased shares in the IPO.

Market Reaction

The impact on PicS shareholders was severe. By June 4, 2026, PicS Class A common stock had fallen to a low of less than $9.00 per share, representing a decline of more than 50% from the $19.00 per share IPO price. The complaint notes that as early as five days after the IPO, on February 5, 2026, a Seeking Alpha analyst published a report titled "PicPay: Stay Away from the Stock at this Price," asserting the Company was significantly overvalued with an unfavorable margin profile compared to peers. The complaint alleges that investors who purchased PicS Class A common stock in or traceable to the IPO suffered significant losses as information about the Company’s credit portfolio was disclosed after the offering.

Next Steps

●       Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 4, 2026

●       After the lead plaintiff deadline, the Court will consider any lead plaintiff motions.

●       Defendants may file a motion to dismiss.

●       If the case proceeds, the Court may later consider class certification

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