October 8, 2025
Yesterday (10/7), Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $38.88; O/P) announced an interesting new integration with TikTok that enables certain consumer package good (CPG) brands access to CART’s first-party retail media data in order to improve ads…
October 6, 2025
This morning, Maplebear d/b/a Instacart (CART; $38.13; O/P) announced a partnership with United Airlines (UAL; $96.75; NR) aimed at offering United MileagePlus members with a range of benefits when they order from CART’s platform. We…
October 3, 2025
We are raising our rating from Equal-Weight to Outperform on the shares of Maplebear d/b/a Instacart (CART; $39.30). We think the 24% decline in the stock since 8/11, including -16% over the past month or…
August 13, 2025
The shares of Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $45.05; E/W) are down 12% today on news that Amazon (AMZN; $224.48; NR) is now offering same-day grocery delivery to consumers in 1K+ cities and towns in the…
August 8, 2025
We are bumping up our 2025/2026E EBITDA for Maplebear d/b/a Instacart (CART; $49.39; E/W) from $1.075B/$1.225B to $1.085B/$1.25B after the company produced a solid “beat and raise” led by some better-than-expected operating leverage, off of…
August 7, 2025
Maplebear, doing business as Instacart, (CART; $49.39; E/W) posted Q2 adjusted EBITDA of $262mm (2.9% of GTV vs. 2.5% a year ago), which was ahead of our forecast of $245mm (2.7% of GTV) and the…
July 7, 2025
Recent news flow out of Maplebear d/b/a Instacart (CART; $47.18; E/W) provides further support for the idea that the company is enabling a wider range of avenues for deepening relationships with existing retail partners, while…
May 28, 2025
This morning, Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $47.23; E/W) announced the promotion of Chris Rogers, from Chief Business Officer (CBO) to CEO, effective August 15th, which fits with prior indications that the surprising need to name…
May 8, 2025
This morning, Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $44.35; E/W) confirmed in an 8-K filing that CEO Fidji Simo, who has served in her current role for nearly four years, plans to resign from the company and…
May 2, 2025
We raise 2025/2026E EBITDA for Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $44.35; E/W), from $1.025B/$1.175B to $1.075B/$1.225B, which implies EBITDA margins expand from 2.6% of GTV in 2024 to 2.9% in 2025 and 3.1% in 2026E, after…
May 1, 2025
Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart, (CART; $39.80; E/W) posted Q1 adjusted EBITDA of $244mm (2.7% of GTV), which was ahead of our forecast of $230mm (2.5% of GTV) and the Street’s $229mm (2.5% of GTV). At the…
March 27, 2025
There has been a flurry of announcements out of Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $40.17; E/W) in recent weeks, that highlight how it continues to deploy new large language models (LLMs), AI and machine learning (ML)…
February 26, 2025
Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $48.78; E/W), produced Q4 results and guidance that were a bit of a “mixed bag” relative to consensus expectations. On the plus side, Q4 EBITDA of $252mm (2.9% of Gross Transaction Value…
February 25, 2025
Maplebear, doing business as Instacart, (CART; $48.78; E/W) posted Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $252mm (2.9% of GTV), which was ahead of our forecast of $239mm (2.8% of GTV) and the Street’s $240mm (2.8% of GTV)….
December 17, 2024
Yesterday (12/16), Maplebear, d/b/a Instacart (CART; $42.18; E/W), announced it is now offering several new supplier and merchant solutions to Instacart Business users on its platform. Recall, CART’s higher margin Instacart Business offering allows customers…