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DoorDash, Inc. Class A Common Stock 2026 Q2 Earnings Call

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PeriodQ2 2026Duration59 minParticipants19

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Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the DoorDash Q2 2026 earnings call. After today's opening statement, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now hand the call over to Wes Twigg. Please go ahead. Thanks, Connor.

Wes Twigg

Good afternoon, everyone, thanks for joining us for our Q2 2026 earnings call. I'm pleased to be joined today by co-founder, Chair, and CEO, Tony Xu, and CFO, Ravi Inukonda. We'll be making forward-looking statements during today's call, including, without limitation, our expectations for our business, financial position, operating performance, profitability, our guidance, strategies, capital allocation approach, and broader economic environment. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Many of these uncertainties are described in our SEC filings, including our most recent Form 10-K and 10-Q. You should not rely on our forward-looking statements as predictions of future events or performance. We disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required by law. During this call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures.

Wes Twigg

Information regarding our non-GAAP financial measures, including a reconciliation of such non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, may be found in our earnings release, which is available on our investor relations website at ir.doordash.com. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to our GAAP results and are not intended to be a substitute for our GAAP results. Finally, this call is being audio webcasted on our investor relations website. An audio replay of the call will be available on our website shortly after the call ends. Operator, I'll pass it back to you, and you can take our first question.

Operator

We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question. Again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, press star one again. We also ask that you pick up your handset when asking a question, and if you're muted locally, please remember to unmute your device. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. The first question comes from Michael Morton of MoffettNathanson. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Michael MortonAnalyst

Good evening, guys. Thank you for the question. I wanted to ask about the grocery business, as you've talked about improving the unit economics. From our understanding, there are some grocers on the platforms, your platform specifically, who are paying effectively zero or very low take rates. They came on looking to see if you could drive demand and how well they could work with DoorDash. I was wondering if that's the case, what the opportunity is to reprice these relationships going forward, maybe pushing some of the affordability burden that's landing on DoorDash right now back to the grocers.

Deepak MathivananCFO

Thank you. Yeah. Hey, Michael.

Deepak MathivananCFO

It's Tony. I can start, and feel free to chime in, Ravi. We see extremely strong performance in our grocery business. It's the fastest-growing part of our marketplace business, and we have very healthy relationships with all of the partners on the platform. In terms of the economic relationships, I'm not going to really comment about any one in particular. When you are the fastest grower in the market for them, and you are their source of growth, put a different way, we might be 100% of the growth that they see in terms of their actual business. You certainly have opportunities to grow your business with them as well as improve your relationships with them.

Deepak MathivananCFO

If you look at our business as a whole, one of the things you see from this quarter, and frankly, many of the time periods leading up to now, is that there are many sources of improving economics. We have improving unit economics across all of our categories. You have improving unit economics in our restaurants business, too. You have improving unit economics in our different geographies in which we operate. You have increasing adoption of our DashPass program, as well as accelerating growth in our ads business. When you add all of that in, we have a business in which there are many levers in which we can control the kind of financial profile in order to make great investments. Ultimately, we're here always seeking the next best investment.

Deepak MathivananCFO

It doesn't mean that we always make those investments, when we see the opportunity, we're always leaning in. That includes all of the work that we're doing in grocery, which we think there's a long runway, as well as all the other opportunities in front of us.

Mark MahaneyAnalyst

Mike, just to add, look, if you take a step back and think about our overall grocery business as well as new verticals, we talked about the fact that we became order volume share leaders in Q4. We've continued to extend that lead to, when you look at the underlying growth in MAUs, which is the number of users that use categories outside of restaurants, that number is growing, order frequency is growing. We talked about the fact in the letter that basket sizes are growing. If you look at our historic cohorts, consumers are using us for more use cases, which is driving overall basket sizes higher. Last call, I think I mentioned the fact that we expect our overall new verticals business to be gross profit positive. We are on track for that in the second half of the year.

Mark MahaneyAnalyst

Look, when we think about the business as a whole, we think about retention, order frequency, as well as underlying improvement in unit economics, and they're all headed in the right direction for us.

Operator

The next question is from Mark Mahaney from Evercore ISI. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Tony XuCo-Founder, Chair, and CEO

Thanks. I'll ask you a question about Deliveroo. You've had now three quarters in a row of kind of accelerating growth, I think, in orders, yes, and in GOV, and then I think in revenue. Just peel that back a little bit. How many different opportunities you've had, what you've been able to pull, what you've been able to change in order to deliver that better performance, and it's a little hard to tell, but is it also showing up on the bottom line? Have you been finding ways to improve the profitability of Deliveroo as well?

Deepak MathivananCFO

Thank you very much. Hey, it's Tony.

Deepak MathivananCFO

I can start. What I would say on Deliveroo is it really is a story that probably started way back in 2021, when we first made our first large acquisition overseas, which was with Wolt. We've learned a ton, obviously, about building our own U.S. business. We've learned a lot in terms of how Wolt has operated in different geographies across Europe, as well as how to integrate the lessons that we've learned, as well as the lessons that maybe don't apply into each one of these local geographies. What you're seeing in Deliveroo, I agree with you, Mark, is just accelerating performance, frankly, across the board.

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