NASDAQ$CART

Instacart · Q3 2024 earnings

Q3 2024 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Instacart's scale and strategic integrations drove strong Q3 2024 results.

Instacart reported a strong Q3 2024, marked by an 11% year-over-year increase in GTV to $8,303 million and its fourth consecutive quarter of positive GAAP net income. The company's focus on deepening integrations with retailers has proven successful, with integrated retailers experiencing nearly twice the sales growth of non-integrated partners. Instacart is reinvesting in long-term growth opportunities while steadily expanding profitability.

  • GTV increased by 11% year-over-year to $8,303 million.
  • Orders increased by 10% year-over-year to 72.9 million.
  • GAAP net income was positive for the fourth consecutive quarter, reaching $118 million.
  • Deep retailer integrations are driving growth, with integrated retailers growing nearly twice as fast.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$852M

Previous: $764M+11.5%
EPS

$0.42

Previous: -$20.86+102.0%
Orders

72.9M

Previous: 66.2M+10.1%
Gross Transaction Value

$8.3B

Previous: $7.49B+10.8%
Capital Expenditures

-$52M

Previous: -$38M-36.8%
Free Cash Flow

$66M

Previous: -$2.04B+103.2%
Net Income

$118M

Previous: -$2B+105.9%
Operating Income

$138M

Previous: -$2.46B+105.6%
Gross Profit

$641M

Previous: $561M+14.3%
R&D Expense

$147M

Previous: $1.85B-92.0%
Stock-Based Comp

$69M

Previous: $2.61B-97.4%

Revenue & EPS history

Instacart · Revenue · Quarterly

$852M

Q3 2024+11.5%vs Q3 2023
Beat estimate in 5 of 10 quarters(50%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

Instacart · $764M total across 2 segments · Q3 2023

  • Transaction Revenue
    $542M+11.8%
  • Advertising & Other
    $222M+18.7%

Forward guidance

For Q4 2024, Instacart anticipates GTV to be in the range of $8,500 to $8,650 million and adjusted EBITDA to be between $230 to $240 million.

Tailwinds

  • Strong holiday season anticipated.
  • Continued growth in GTV.
  • Maintaining strong adjusted EBITDA.
  • Focus on growing grocery technology.
  • Expanding profitability.

Headwinds

  • Compares against last year's strong holiday season.
  • Sequential step up in incentive spend in the prior year quarter.
  • Small impact from Ahold Delhaize’s recent outage.
  • Uncertainty regarding stock-based compensation.
  • Potential variability of reconciling items.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 14 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q3 2024

Historical avgQ3 2024

-0.5%

Avg return

Earnings day

-1.1%

Avg return

5 days after

+3.7%

Avg return

30 days after

50%

7 / 14 earnings

Positive

+13.5%

Q1 2025

Best reaction

-14.0%

Q3 2023

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026-0.4%-2.8%+2.6%
Q4 2025+9.2%+9.2%+15.0%
Q3 2025+1.6%+11.7%+18.3%
Q1 2025+13.5%+14.9%+14.7%
Q4 2024-12.3%-20.3%-18.6%
Q3 2024-9.9%-12.0%-12.3%
Q2 2023+0.7%-0.9%+5.9%
Q2 2024+3.9%+2.5%+11.3%
Q1 2024-3.8%-7.4%-12.1%
Q4 2021-0.2%+2.0%+12.5%
Q4 2023-0.2%-2.2%+30.5%
Q4 2022+2.7%+0.2%-1.3%
Q3 2022+2.7%+0.2%-1.3%
Q3 2023-14.0%-10.2%-14.2%
Q1 2023
Q2 2022
Q1 2022
Q3 2021
Q2 2021
Q1 2021

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