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Brian Nowak

Morgan Stanley · covers Consumer Cyclical, Technology, Communication Services

Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).

Questions
76on tracked calls
Challenge rate
7%5 of 76 questions
Companies
11questioned at least once
Reporting periods
7with questions

These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.

How to read these numbers

Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.

Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.

No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.

Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.

Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.

Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.

Questions asked

Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.

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METAMeta Platforms, Inc.13 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 13 challenging
META company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

do you expect to be able to scale first in ’26 and ’27 to showcase quantifiable material ROIC for investors?

Capex InvestmentCloud & AIRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Zuckerberg walked through the portfolio of opportunities but declined to rank which scales first, deferring specifics to a later date.

Any early comments on ’27 CapEx, even the philosophy around sources of upside or sources of downward pressure

Capex InvestmentCapital AllocationGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Li explicitly declined to quantify 2027 CapEx but explained the planning framework of maximizing 2026-2027 capacity.

Calendar 2026 Q1

the signposts you're watching to ensure you're going to generate ROIC and all these investments

Capex InvestmentCloud & AITranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Zuckerberg gave a high-level framework (build leading models → scale products → monetize) but acknowledged no precise monthly plan for how each product scales.

Calendar 2025 Q4

can you walk us through a little bit how you think about the largest revenue or ROI long-term opportunities you're trying to unlock with those over the next, call it, three, five, ten years through...

Capex InvestmentRevenue GrowthInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Zuckerberg flagged subscriptions, advertising, shopping and the Manus acquisition as monetization levers but said detail will follow as models roll out.

can you just sort of help us a little bit understand two or three of the biggest drivers of this inflection you're seeing on revenue in '26?

Revenue GrowthInnovation & R&DPricingTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Susan Li credited ad-ranking, ad-load redistribution, Advantage+ rollouts, and a 4pt FX tailwind as the Q1 2026 drivers.

Calendar 2025 Q3

can you help us a little to understand some of the early quantifiable signals you're seeing on AB tests from some of these improvements to come that sort of make you most excited and give you confi...

Innovation & R&DCapex InvestmentMarginTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Susan Li pointed to value-weighted conversion growth outpacing impressions and new model architectures enabling more data/compute for ads performance.

How large is the Reality Labs revenue headwind in the 4Q guidance?

Product LaunchRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Susan Li declined to quantify but cited lapping Quest 3S and Q3 retail-partner procurement pull-in as the drivers.

Calendar 2025 Q2

can you just sort of walk us through any changes of technological constraints or technological gating factors that you are most focused on overcoming in the next 24 months

Innovation & R&DCloud & AITranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Zuckerberg framed self-improvement as a key research thrust but declined to detail specific gating factors.

Can you just walk us through a couple of the factors you're still most excited about to come in the next 18 months that you think could drive a further lift to engagement on the core platform?

Subscriber GrowthInnovation & R&DProduct LaunchTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Susan Li walked through near-term items (adaptive recs, creator break-out matching) and longer-term LLM-in-recs bets.

Calendar 2025 Q1

Any help on sort of how you're seeing US traction there and the types of recurring user behaviors that you're seeing in the early Meta AI use cases?

Cloud & AISubscriber GrowthProduct LaunchTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Susan Li gave rich color on top use cases (info gathering, social interactions, writing assist, visual) and entry-point mix dominated by WhatsApp then Facebook.

Can you sort of talk us through some of the key areas of advancement you are most focused on and excited about as we sort of think about behemoth and next versions of Llama to come?

Innovation & R&DCloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Zuckerberg gave substantive detail on 17B-per-expert architecture, voice latency optimization, long context windows, and Behemoth-based distillation.

Calendar 2024 Q4

how should we think about the main gating factors as to how quickly you'd be able to move a higher percentage of your engagement to your custom silicon?

Innovation & R&DCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Susan Li gave a concrete timeline: MTIA ramping in 2025 for inference, expanding to training in 2026.

share a few sort of high-level examples of your vision on new potential use cases and offerings that could drive utility for your users and value for your advertisers

Cloud & AIProduct LaunchInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Zuckerberg gave broad vision on Meta AI + Llama 4 but deferred specifics; Susan Li provided clearer detail on MTIA custom silicon roadmap.

UBERUber13 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 13 challenging
UBER company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

if you look ahead 12 months from now, what are sort of the main milestones or progress sign points you're focused on

Innovation & R&DGeographic ExpansionTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Dara named concrete milestones: live in 7 cities, on track for 15 by year-end, specific partner launches, plus service quality and per-vehicle utilization. Direct.

Calendar 2026 Q1

Can you just walk us through some of the drivers of growth of Uber One at this point in the quarter?

Subscriber GrowthCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Dara attributed growth to structurally better membership benefits than competitors, global benefit expansion, no-fee grocery above $60, member days events, and 10% hotel credits.

sort of the overall Suburban Delivery business sort of using the Mobility growth to drive better Delivery growth

Geographic ExpansionDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Dara described a global playbook of expanding selection and reliability in sparse markets. Australia sparse markets 2x larger than average, with lots of growth remaining.

Calendar 2025 Q4

Are you still sort of maintaining that philosophy? Or what is sort of the reinvestment versus capital return philosophy

Capital AllocationCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Balaji affirmed continued aggressive buybacks at a steady cadence, noting the company can simultaneously invest in growth and return capital given ~$10B free cash flow generation.

walk us through why you don't think AV will go that way when safety is so important to scaling AV the next 3, 5, 10 years

Innovation & R&DCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Dara argued hardware is fundamentally different from software platforms, with many OEMs and AV software players reaching the finish line. Uber is the winner-take-most 3P platform.

Calendar 2025 Q3

How do you sort of think about the key investment areas into 26 you are focused on? In the European food delivery business

Competitive DynamicsGeographic ExpansionTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Dara emphasized organic category leadership in UK and France, gaining share in Spain and Germany. Highlighted partnerships with OpenTable, Instacart, and Ifood as competitive differentiators.

just curious for any further color on progress you are making in the urban versus suburban strategy or the sparse strategy

Geographic ExpansionDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Prashanth said sparse markets growing 1.5x denser markets, roughly 20% penetrated. Wait-and-save product is an excellent match for suburban environments with lower car density.

Calendar 2025 Q2

Any update on how large that is or ways we can think about quantifying the Waymo utilization on Uber's network

Innovation & R&DCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Dara confirmed 99th-percentile Waymo utilization in both Austin and Atlanta, noted a positive halo effect on the overall system, but didn't update specific ride volume figures.

is there any changes that sort of came through this quarter that drove that faster growth? And how do we think about the durability

Subscriber GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Dara attributed audience growth to product diversification, Moto ($1.5B, growing 40%), premium ($10B, growing 35%), reserve (growing 60%), plus teens and elder products expanding the addressable base.

Calendar 2025 Q1

walk us through how you’re thinking about the size of the fleet or an internal timeline or target when Austin Waymo, combined with Austin human drivers

Innovation & R&DDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Dara deflected on specific fleet size targets, focusing on quality and safety over incremental volume, noting the fleet will be over 100 vehicles soon.

any update on how quickly U.S. mobility is growing and how the suburbs versus the more urban areas are trending

Revenue GrowthGeographic ExpansionTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Prashanth confirmed 19% year-over-year trip growth for three consecutive quarters, heavily led by audience growth, with sparser markets at 20% of trips and growing faster.

Calendar 2024 Q4

do you think philosophically about investing more in autonomous assets, be it first-party car fleet or other fleet management tools

Innovation & R&DCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Dara provided a comprehensive overview of AV investment strategy across fleet depots, technical partnerships, and OEM supply, noting costs won't impact the three-year outlook.

talk to us a little bit about how to think about puts and takes on rides incremental margins, and sort of profitability in the first quarter and throughout 2025

MarginCost PressureTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Prashanth explained mobility profitability should be viewed at total company level, with continued investment in growth areas like membership and Uber Teens.

AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.9 questions · 7 reporting periods · 1 of 9 challenging
AMZN company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

the company talked publicly about selling Trainium at some point to third-party data centers

Innovation & R&DCapital AllocationCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Jassy confirmed active conversations and said there is a real chance Amazon sells Trainium outside its cloud, without giving timing or return economics.

are you at a point where you're going to be able to start to slow that long-lived data center spend at all in 2027

Capex InvestmentCloud & AIDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Jassy pointed to reserved 2027 and 2028 capacity and the barbell adoption curve, but did not commit to any deceleration in data center spend.

Calendar 2026 Q1

give us an update on what the AWS backlog looks like and sort of any visibility on the breadth of that backlog

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Jassy disclosed $364B backlog excluding the Anthropic deal worth over $100B, and confirmed reasonable breadth across multiple customers, not just one or two.

what are you most focused on making sure you accomplish on the agentic side this year

Innovation & R&DCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Jassy outlined vision for Rufus as best shopping assistant, noting 115% MAU growth and 400% engagement growth. Compared current agentic commerce to early search engine days.

Calendar 2025 Q4

Where are some of the areas where you see the potential for sources of efficiency and cost to serve savings?

Cost PressureDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Jassy said investment areas include selection expansion on both luxury brands and everyday essentials with one out of three units now everyday essentials. Speed of delivery improvements plus Quick Commerce with Amazon Now in India Mexico UAE showing triple shopping frequency. Perishables in thousands of cities with nine out of ten top items being perishables where available. On efficiencies cited regionalization extended from 8 to 10 regions improving inbound delivery and inventory placement. Making significant progress getting more units into each box. Robotics with over 1 million robots still a fraction of future potential.

Calendar 2025 Q3

how do you think about the key hurdles of Trainium3 need to overcome to really make Trainium adoption broader

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Jassy said Amazon will always offer multiple chip options. Deep NVIDIA relationship will continue with significant purchases not constrained in buying. Annapurna chip team built Graviton with 40% better CPU price performance and doing same with Trainium on AI side. Expects Trainium3 to be about 40% better than Trainium2. Must deliver chip in volumes quickly and continue improving software ecosystem. Project Rainier proof point with Anthropic builds increasing credibility.

Calendar 2025 Q2

there is a Wall Street finance person narrative right now, that AWS is falling behind in GenAI with concerns about share loss to peers, et cetera. Can you just sort of address that?

ChallengingCloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Jassy said AI market very top heavy with small number of large frontier models and large-scale applications like chatbots and coding agents like Cursor Vercel and Lovable running on AWS. Very large number of GenAI applications still in pilot or development. Cited Trainium2 with 30% to 40% better price performance as backbone for Anthropic Claude models and Bedrock. Highlighted SageMaker AI Bedrock Strands and AgentCore as differentiated middle layer. Said 85% to 90% of IT spend still on premises and GenAI inference will be another building block running close to existing data and infrastructure on AWS. Optimistic about combination of cloud migration AI acceleration and more capacity coming online.

Calendar 2025 Q1

can you just sort of walk us through the one or two key areas operationally that you're most focused on

Trade TariffsDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Jassy focused on helping sellers through uncertainty, maintaining seller diversity and low prices, and managing inventory inflow to avoid fulfillment network congestion. Olsavsky said Q2 tariff costs not large given Q1 pre-buying but wider guidance range reflects general uncertainty. Advertising strong and some strength in April.

Calendar 2024 Q4

Any new data points, I think you can share on learnings from Shreveport? And how do we think about the scalability of savings

Innovation & R&DCost PressureTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Jassy said Shreveport next-gen robotics showing speed, productivity, and cost to serve improvements. Plans to expand to new and retrofitted facilities. About a thousand generative AI applications built or in process across Amazon. Rufus shopping assistant, AI chatbot with 500 basis points better satisfaction, and 10% better inventory forecasting cited as examples.

GOOGLAlphabet Inc.9 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 9 challenging
GOOGL company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

How is your budgeting philosophy and these constraints you're putting on the forward spend

Capex InvestmentCapital AllocationTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Anat: takes a multiyear view and will invest as long as returns are attractive; still supply constrained with demand outpacing investment.

give us some perspective on how your view on the size of the overall GenAI ROIC opportunity

Capex InvestmentCloud & AITranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Sundar framed GenAI returns as very early innings with extraordinary opportunity but offered no quantified ROIC figure or timing.

Calendar 2026 Q1

what are the areas that you are most excited about applying next-generation compute toward

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Pichai outlined agentic consumer workflows as the key opportunity for search compute investment, noting the company is in early innings.

help us philosophically understand the strategy around pricing them, given the high ROIC of using TPUs

Competitive DynamicsCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Pichai framed TPU sales through a customer-service lens rather than disclosing specific pricing strategy, citing capital markets and AI labs as target buyers.

Calendar 2025 Q4

do you think you made the most progress on new types of agentic commerce products

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Pichai said 2025 was about laying foundation getting models robust for agentic use cases with coding showing most progress. Universal Commerce Protocol launched at NRF with founding partners for interoperability. Now integrating into Gemini and AI Mode. 2026 is the year consumers will use agentic commerce. On YouTube said Genie will have wide applicability with multimodality and real world representation. All innovation from Imagine Veo Liria Genie brought to products and cloud customers. YouTube will incorporate tools with creators at center of experience.

Calendar 2025 Q3

what factors are you most focused on to sort of ensure a smooth transition

Cloud & AIRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q3 →
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Schindler said agentic experiences are additive helping people get stuff done and helping businesses. Working on agentic experiences across travel commerce and shopping verticals with attention to partner ecosystems. Introduced agentic checkout in AIO and partnership with PayPal. On Waymo Pichai said exciting opportunity to integrate Gemini multimodal experience and YouTube for dramatically better in-car experience. Will see newer experiences in 2026.

Calendar 2025 Q2

what are some of the predominant technological hurdles

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Pichai said 2.5 series models investing most in agentic direction with exciting progress including unreleased models. Main challenges are chaining sequences reliably with compounding latency and cost. Making robust progress at frontier with 12-month efficiency improvements on models. Expects 2026 to be breakout year for agentic experiences. Internally rolling out agentic coding workflows for software engineers with increased adoption over last few weeks overcoming earlier friction points.

Calendar 2025 Q1

signs of weakness quarter dates

MacroeconomicRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Schindler said Q1 saw broad-based strength led by finance insurance retail healthcare and travel. Too early to comment on Q2 being only a few weeks in. De minimis exemption change will cause slight headwind from APAC retailers. Lots of experience managing uncertain times. AI Overviews continuing to drive higher satisfaction and usage with Q1 being largest expansion to date.

Calendar 2024 Q4

how you think about your Search product continue to evolve

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Pichai said AI overviews playing out positively with great metrics. More powerful multimodal AI coming including Lens Circle to Search and Project Astra capabilities. Deep Research expanding types of use cases for Search. Ashkenazi outlined efficiency priorities including technical infrastructure optimization managing headcount growth real estate footprint optimization organization simplification and using AI tools internally for coding and key processes.

DASHDoorDash8 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 8 challenging
DASH company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

Can you give us some examples where you're seeing early signal with actual quantifiable benefits of the new modules

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Tony cited qualitative wins in search conversion and support automation from the replatforming but offered no hard quantification despite the ask.

Calendar 2026 Q1

areas you have made the most progress in bringing on new merchants and more inventory per merchant

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Tony highlighted AI agents automating merchant onboarding with perfect quality. Already seeing P&L benefits from AI tools across merchant and support.

Does that mean that you are running all three tech stacks now, so we are burdening the P&L with the max cost

ChallengingCapex InvestmentCost PressureTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Ravi confirmed redundant parallel tech stack costs through 2026, potentially bleeding into early 2027 before phasing out.

Calendar 2025 Q2

Can you talk to us about the areas where you've had more challenges than you expected in sort of improving the product

Innovation & R&DDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Tony challenged the premise, saying customer emails suggest they are falling short. Cited this morning's email about wrong parking lot delivery. Opportunities for improvement everywhere, not one area harder than another.

Calendar 2025 Q1

Can you give us some examples of what you've learned with Wolt or other European countries as sort of give you excitement

Geographic ExpansionM&ATranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Tony highlighted Deliveroo's leading positions in profitable Western European markets. Exchange of product learnings with Wolt drove improvements. Comfortable to increase international investment after proving management bandwidth.

CapEx was up quite a bit in the quarter. What's driving the increase in CapEx?

Capex InvestmentCloud & AITranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Ravi attributed CapEx increase to merchant tablet refresh and autonomous delivery investments. Expects similar levels for rest of year within G&A guidance.

Calendar 2024 Q4

can you sort of talk to us about how your '25 budgeting and investment priorities or areas of capital allocation changed versus the start of '24?

Capex InvestmentCapital AllocationTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Tony said priorities largely unchanged, continued investment in all five areas. Proud of 2024 results as reflection of 2022-2023 decisions.

How should we think about the pace of the buyback and sort of the cash balance or targeting

Capital AllocationTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Ravi confirmed opportunistic and conservative buyback approach, focused on driving returns over longer period. Generated over $2B in shareholder value.

BKNGBooking Holdings7 questions · 4 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
BKNG company page →

Calendar 2026 Q1

you talked about strengthening Genius this year. Can you just maybe talk to us a little bit how you think about ways in which you want to strengthen the Genius program

Product LaunchCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Glenn described Genius-Connected Trip integration as a 'superpower' creating more loyalty and value, but declined to share specific details, saying they'd announce when ready to roll out.

What sort of is the main constraint to scaling that for you guys at this point? Is it compute capacity? Is it you need to sort of R&D testing time

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Glenn clarified constraint is deliberate testing discipline, not compute or cost. Also noted regulatory complexity around AI rules in Europe plus privacy and payment compliance requirements.

Calendar 2025 Q2

the biggest one or two technological hurdles that have to be cleared in order to make sort of scalable Gen AI assistance

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Glenn described the goal as personalized trip planning using proprietary data, cited natural language search as already live, and emphasized the incremental nature of AI progress.

talk to us about some of the growth initiatives you have internally to really sort of catapult the growth in the U.S.

ChallengingGeographic ExpansionCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Ewout cited investments in product, supply, marketing, brand, and alternative accommodations; confirmed Q2 US growth slightly above Q1 and beating the broader market.

Calendar 2025 Q1

is it a geographic phenomenon? Or are there certain channels that are sort of like lower ROI

MarginCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Ewout pointed to social media channel scaling and traditional channel experimentation, noting the ROI mix effect laps in Q2 and marketing leverage is expected to continue full-year.

walk us through the reasoning for the widening of the range just to sort of in case or just being more pragmatic

Guidance ReliabilityMacroeconomicTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Ewout explained high end is unchanged but low end expanded to reflect second-half macro uncertainty; if uncertainties don't play out, results would match Q4 guidance.

Calendar 2024 Q4

you give them access to your differentiated supply. How do you sort of think about managing the long term risk

Cloud & AICompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Glenn acknowledged the concern but offered qualitative reassurance about trusted brand and data advantages rather than specific risk mitigation strategies.

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PINSPinterest, Inc.6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 1 of 6 challenging
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Calendar 2026 Q2

what are the next sort of sources of innovation or unlocks that you're looking for to even drive faster and more durable growth

Revenue GrowthInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Bill pointed to measurement-system alignment and AI ad-platform ease-of-use as the levers to close the monetization gap.

Calendar 2026 Q1

are you assuming you see further benefits from that attribution modeling across even more advertisers

Product LaunchRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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William pointed to measurement integrations and off-platform CTV via tvScientific as key growth opportunities.

Calendar 2025 Q4

Can you give us sort of a couple of examples of your current go-to-market with SMBs and international

Competitive DynamicsGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Bill described SMB performance selling and measurement integrations; Julia said restructuring hit some frontline sellers, factored into guidance.

Calendar 2025 Q2

is there a constraint to how much the business can accelerate that perhaps we externally don't understand?

ChallengingRevenue GrowthGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Bill rejected the step-function analog, framing gains as compounding with no structural limit to durable share taking.

Calendar 2025 Q1

how to think about a rough percentage lift in same advertiser spend as you sort of rolled that tool out

Product LaunchRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q1 →
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Bill declined to break out a specific spend-lift percentage but cited 80% A/B outperformance.

Calendar 2024 Q4

That you think can be the most material drivers to further platform improvement in 2025?

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Bill described GPU serving, LLM integration, and coding assistants generating roughly half the code base.

ABNBAirbnb5 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 5 challenging
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Calendar 2026 Q1

How do you think about adding air, adding a car service, adding a grocery offering

Revenue GrowthCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Brian compared Airbnb's category expansion to Amazon's evolution from books to everything. Each subsequent offering requires less incremental work.

what is the biggest hurdle or constraint that we should be thinking about

Competitive DynamicsProduct LaunchTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Brian said there is no major single hurdle; it is about speed, best prices, best quality and getting people to discover hotels on the platform.

Calendar 2025 Q4

if we're sitting here a year from now, what are the areas you're most focused on or seeing improvements to the platform using AI this year?

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Brian outlined four AI goals for next year: (1) AI customer service expanded to voice and all languages with >30% ticket resolution, (2) engineering productivity with 100% AI tool adoption, (3) AI search becoming conversational with custom UI, (4) AI-native listing experience. No model building means no CapEx impact.

Calendar 2025 Q2

can you just sort of talk us through the 1 or 2 key priorities in your mind to sort of accelerate that growth into '26

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Brian identified three pillars: usability (hundreds of improvements), pricing/affordability (total price display, host-only fee exploration), and targeted supply growth in constrained markets plus hotels.

Calendar 2024 Q4

talk us through some of the the larger points of friction or opportunities high level that you see from a a guest and a host perspective

Product LaunchMarginTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Brian outlined philosophy: one app/brand, starting with travel adjacencies, each business could reach $1B revenue in 3-5 years. Ellie detailed margin impact weighted to Q1-Q3.

RDDTReddit, Inc.3 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
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Calendar 2025 Q2

Talk to us about sort of some of the innovations you're most excited about in the back half to sort of continue to deliver more ROAS

Product LaunchDemandTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Jen cited DPA, automation/auto-bidding, Memorable AI creative and Cannes Community Intelligence products as key back-half levers.

Maybe talk to us about what you are seeing in the U.S. user trends throughout 2Q and then sort of importantly, into 3Q

Subscriber GrowthCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Steve said April was slow but traction improved, the Q2 exit was above the 110M average, and July added US and international DAUq.

Calendar 2024 Q4

I wanted to sort of talk to you about the initiatives that you have in place to continue to convert the logged-out users to logged-in users

Subscriber GrowthProduct LaunchTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Steve detailed easier login, improved onboarding and ML home-feed as the top drivers converting logged-out users.

EXPEExpedia Group2 questions · 1 reporting period · 1 of 2 challenging
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Calendar 2026 Q1

Can you talk to us a little bit about what you've seen in April and sort of the start in May from a macro perspective

MacroeconomicDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Scott confirmed strong Jan-Feb followed by March disruption from Mexico advisories and Middle East conflict. April saw cancellation normalization and booking improvement.

it looks like you may have grown slower than your -- a couple of your peers in the U.S.

ChallengingCompetitive DynamicsDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Ariane pushed back directly, noting U.S. domestic bookings accelerated to mid-teens growth and nights grew faster than the market. Mexico outbound pressure and B2B partner moderation masked the domestic strength.

CARTMaplebear Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
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Calendar 2024 Q4

talk to us a little bit about the 2025 budgeting process and how you think about constraints to faster top line growth

Capital AllocationRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Emily described active, ROI-driven portfolio management and a commitment to proving unit economics, but declined to break out restaurants as a share of GTV.

Challenge rate by company

Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.

CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
META Meta Platforms, Inc.130%none of 13 questions
UBER Uber130%none of 13 questions
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc.911%1 of 9 questions
GOOGL Alphabet Inc.90%none of 9 questions
DASH DoorDash813%1 of 8 questions
BKNG Booking Holdings714%1 of 7 questions
PINS Pinterest, Inc.617%1 of 6 questions
ABNB Airbnb50%none of 5 questions
RDDT Reddit, Inc.30%none of 3 questions
EXPE Expedia Group2—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • META
    Meta Platforms, Inc. · 13 questions
    0%none of 13 questions
  • UBER
    Uber · 13 questions
    0%none of 13 questions
  • AMZN
    Amazon.com, Inc. · 9 questions
    11%1 of 9 questions
  • GOOGL
    Alphabet Inc. · 9 questions
    0%none of 9 questions
  • DASH
    DoorDash · 8 questions
    13%1 of 8 questions
  • BKNG
    Booking Holdings · 7 questions
    14%1 of 7 questions
  • PINS
    Pinterest, Inc. · 6 questions
    17%1 of 6 questions
  • ABNB
    Airbnb · 5 questions
    0%none of 5 questions
  • RDDT
    Reddit, Inc. · 3 questions
    0%none of 3 questions
  • EXPE
    Expedia Group · 2 questions
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
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CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
CART Maplebear Inc.1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • CART
    Maplebear Inc. · 1 question
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions

Activity by reporting period

Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.

Questions by calendar reporting period
Calendar periodQuestionsChallenge rateCompanies
2024 Q4130%none of 13 questions10
2025 Q1110%none of 11 questions7
2025 Q21323%3 of 13 questions9
2025 Q360%none of 6 questions4
2025 Q480%none of 8 questions6
2026 Q11613%2 of 16 questions9
2026 Q290%none of 9 questions6
  1. 2024 Q413 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 13 questions) · 10 companies
  2. 2025 Q111 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 11 questions) · 7 companies
  3. 2025 Q213 questions · challenge rate 23% (3 of 13 questions) · 9 companies
  4. 2025 Q36 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 4 companies
  5. 2025 Q48 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 6 companies
  6. 2026 Q116 questions · challenge rate 13% (2 of 16 questions) · 9 companies
  7. 2026 Q29 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 9 questions) · 6 companies

Topics

Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.

  • Innovation & R&D26
  • Cloud & AI24
  • Competitive Dynamics19
  • Capex Investment16
  • Demand13
  • Revenue Growth13
  • Product Launch11
  • Capital Allocation7
  • Geographic Expansion7
  • Subscriber Growth6
Show all 17 topics
  • Margin6
  • Guidance Reliability4
  • Cost Pressure4
  • Macroeconomic3
  • Pricing2
  • Trade Tariffs1
  • M&A1