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Consolidated fair value $259.88 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $5.79B 75% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $16.05B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Tony Xu's autonomy-and-platform case: cost per delivery falls as robots take a real share of volume and one global codebase replaces three. DoorDash expects Dot to deliver a high-single-digit percentage of orders in its largest test market by the end of 2026, has earned FAA Part 135 air carrier certification for DoorDash Air, and expects the single global technology platform to be fully rolled out in H1 2027. It is expressed here only as margin - two points above the basis rate, plus 0.3 points a quarter of growth - because there is nothing else to express it as. It reaches $259.88, near the verified $252.30 average analyst target but arrived at from disclosed milestones rather than from anyone's target. What this case does NOT reach: DoorDash publishes no robot count, no autonomy spend, no cost per delivery and no revenue attribution for any of it, and the only quantified near-term effect disclosed is negative, since autonomy and the platform are two of the named causes of the expected Q4 2026 margin decline. Nothing here is a company financial target.

United States

Basis quarter$3.46B
Final quarter$5.79B
Implied CAGR+11%
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: $5.79B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $2.66B
2025Q2 $2.83B
2025Q3 $2.93B
2025Q4 $3.05B
2026Q1 $3.10B
2026Q2 $3.46B
2026Q3E $3.56B
2026Q4E $3.67B
2027Q1E $3.78B
2027Q2E $3.89B
2027Q3E $4.00B
2027Q4E $4.10B
2028Q1E $4.21B
2028Q2E $4.33B
2028Q3E $4.44B
2028Q4E $4.55B
2029Q1E $4.67B
2029Q2E $4.78B
2029Q3E $4.90B
2029Q4E $5.02B
2030Q1E $5.14B
2030Q2E $5.27B
2030Q3E $5.40B
2030Q4E $5.53B
2031Q1E $5.66B
2031Q2E $5.79B

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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