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Consolidated fair value $303.17 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $6.66B 75% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $18.09B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The investment cycle is already paying inside the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA of $914m was, in management's words, well above expectation, and Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of Marketplace GOV rose to 2.8% from 2.4% a quarter earlier even as research and development grew 52%. The loss-making half is turning: the CFO said the new verticals business is on track to be gross profit positive in the second half of 2026 and that Deliveroo is contribution profit positive. Membership compounds underneath it - US paid DashPass members grew more in the twelve months to 2026 Q2 than in the prior twenty-four combined. Growth holds a point a quarter higher and margins run three points above the basis rate. Fair value $303.17.

United States

Basis quarter$3.46B
Final quarter$6.66B
Implied CAGR+14%
Final revenue mix75%

The DoorDash Marketplace and Commerce Platform in the US: restaurants, grocery and retail, DashPass, advertising, Drive and SevenRooms. $3,457m of revenue in the basis quarter, 77.6% of the group, up 22.2% year on year. Revenue by geographic area is a filed disaggregation in every 10-Q, so this split is disclosed rather than apportioned. No US-specific order count, Marketplace GOV or margin is published anywhere, so the driver has to be revenue growth rather than the consolidated orders-times-basket chain.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $2.93B Reported
2025 Q4 $3.05B Estimated
2026 Q1 $3.10B Reported
2026 Q2 $3.46B Reported
US restaurant marketplaceUS grocery and retail (new verticals, DashMart)DashPass membership feesAdvertisingCommerce Platform (Drive, online ordering, SevenRooms)
Sequential growth +2.8%/qtr decaying toward +2.0% Below the 4.53% five-quarter compound rate: the Q3 GOV guide is roughly flat on the quarter just delivered.
United States

Latest: $6.66B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $2.66B
2025Q2 $2.83B
2025Q3 $2.93B
2025Q4 $3.05B
2026Q1 $3.10B
2026Q2 $3.46B
2026Q3E $3.59B
2026Q4E $3.72B
2027Q1E $3.86B
2027Q2E $4.00B
2027Q3E $4.14B
2027Q4E $4.28B
2028Q1E $4.42B
2028Q2E $4.57B
2028Q3E $4.72B
2028Q4E $4.88B
2029Q1E $5.04B
2029Q2E $5.20B
2029Q3E $5.37B
2029Q4E $5.54B
2030Q1E $5.71B
2030Q2E $5.89B
2030Q3E $6.07B
2030Q4E $6.26B
2031Q1E $6.46B
2031Q2E $6.66B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • DoorDash operates one reportable segment. The only revenue disaggregation it files is United States versus International, and that is the disaggregation used here. 2025 Q4 is derived by subtracting the nine-month figures in the Q3 2025 10-Q from the full-year figures in the 2025 10-K, so it is marked estimated; the two derived halves sum to the reported $3,955m exactly.
  • Total Orders, Marketplace GOV, average order value and Net Revenue Margin are disclosed only for the group and are deliberately not split across the two lines. For context they read 970 million orders at a derived $34.10 average order value, giving $33,078m of Marketplace GOV monetised at 13.5%.
  • ASEASONAL, derived. Ratio to a centred four-quarter moving average on the six filed US quarters yields only two usable ratios, 1.0017 for 2025 Q3 and 0.9979 for 2025 Q4 - both within 0.2 points of one, and neither quarter label repeats, so window-to-window spread cannot even be measured. On the ten-quarter consolidated revenue series the same method gives Q3 factors of 0.9857 and 0.9694 and Q4 factors of 0.9934 and 1.0336: the largest signal is about 2.2 points and the Q4 window-to-window spread is 4.0 points, so spread exceeds signal. No seasonality is applied.
  • Management said US restaurant Marketplace GOV growth accelerated slightly in Q2 2026 and that DashPass members placed roughly 75% of Total Orders in the US grocery and retail categories, but published no US revenue, order or margin figure to attach to either statement, so neither is an input here.
  • The 20.52% basis margin is consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $914m over consolidated revenue of $4,454m. DoorDash discloses no geographic profitability at all, so the same rate is applied to both lines: consolidated Adjusted EBITDA reconciles exactly at the basis quarter and only the forward mix is affected. The higher US terminal margin is a judgement about the advertising-rich, scaled half, not a disclosure.
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