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Analyst
Michael Morton
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).
- Questions
- 37on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 11%4 of 37 questions
- Companies
- 6questioned 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.
Showing 37 of 37 questions from 6 companies
DASHDoorDash10 questions · 7 reporting periods · 3 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
I wanted to ask about the grocery business as you've talked about improving the unit economics.
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Tony declined to comment on specific grocer take rates but Ravi gave a concrete gross-profit-positive timeline for new verticals.
Calendar 2026 Q1
are you willing to share any learnings about what percentage of the US delivery market you think is addressable for AVs
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Ravi shared multi-format delivery vision but deflected specifics on addressable market percentage and consumer incentive economics. Tony added hardening focus.
personal agents could layer themselves in between the on-demand marketplaces and the consumer
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Tony directly dismissed intermediation risk citing Google food ordering historical precedent. Emphasized end-to-end experience as the moat.
Calendar 2025 Q4
In the press release, you talked about investing to support growth in longer distance and higher effort deliveries
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Tony described building the operating system for local commerce: software for merchants, warehousing with DashMart Fulfillment, lowest-cost delivery, and autonomous vehicles. Investing in Dasher pay models for more complex orders.
I love the commentary on the inflection in unit economics for your new verticals business
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Ravi cited continued execution: logistics efficiency, product quality, larger basket sizes. No step function change. 30% of MAUs ordering outside restaurants, goal is 100%.
Calendar 2025 Q3
just understanding maybe like where the platform development spend, like how that hockey sticks so much
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Tony explained costs spike when spinning up temporary cloud instances while maintaining multiple stacks. DashMart Fulfillment is about retailer partnerships for managed inventory, not AI platform partnerships.
Calendar 2025 Q2
They're running maybe a little bit hotter than some of us might have expected
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Ravi guided to ~2% of GOV for OpEx. Driving automation but still finding great pockets for investment. Tony added DASH now has 5 businesses vs one 5 years ago, requiring headcount for new problems.
Calendar 2025 Q1
is there any changes in competitive intensity you're seeing in the grocery market that's maybe driving some of the affordability push?
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Ravi said no change in competitive dynamics. Gaining healthy share YoY in grocery. Tony added they don't focus on competitive intensity, affordability is always a priority.
Calendar 2024 Q4
I would love to hear how you're thinking about this opportunity and exploring potential partnerships in providing the infrastructure
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Tony framed two jobs: master physical logistics first, then leverage AI/LLMs for personalization and operations with billions of orders and local-level data.
you called out international markets utilizing NOLs for the first time. I was wondering if you could talk a bit more
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Ravi spoke broadly about the portfolio being GP positive with some countries CM positive, but didn't identify specific markets. Said tax impact will be somewhat volatile.
EBAYeBay10 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
I was wondering what your outlook is for the competitive intensity in this market
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Asked about C2C competitive intensity in the U.S. and internationally; Jamie framed it as a large underpenetrated C2C fashion opportunity where eBay competes from strength.
Calendar 2026 Q1
I was curious to hear why you think it's gaining so much momentum now
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Jamie attributed momentum to enthusiast engagement and community aspects. Shared qualitative milestones (7-figure daily GMV in U.K./Germany, bottom navigation placement) but declined to quantify forward GMV expectations specifically.
Calendar 2025 Q4
could you maybe talk about or quantify how you've grown the user base of people who sell trading cards on the website
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Jamie noted broad-based Q4 strength across sports trading cards (which accelerated), collectible card games, and emerging games like One Piece, with ASP growth driven by mix shift to higher-priced items rather than pure price appreciation.
are you seeing any change in behavior from users who are sent from AI search platforms to eBay's website
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Jamie acknowledged AI search traffic is very small industry-wide but confirmed it is high intent with high conversion, while noting enthusiast buyers are responding positively to on-platform agentic search with back-and-forth natural language discovery.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how big can your vehicles business be
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Jamie highlighted end-to-end secure purchase experience resonating with customers and synergies with P&A enthusiasts; Peggy clarified vehicles take rate in low-to-mid single digits with immaterial revenue contribution so far.
I think you rolled out halo attribution in the U.S.
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Jamie confirmed halo attribution launched in Germany in February, expanded to Europe in June, and will roll to U.S. and Canada in the new year, with sellers adjusting bids well and ROAS remaining healthy.
Calendar 2025 Q2
the traffic you're seeing coming from AI search to eBay, are those buyers behaving differently
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Jamie noted AI search traffic is small but growing and characterized by high shopping intent, consistent with eBay's strategy of leaning into unique non-new and seasoned inventory.
when they think about an eBay future and the reacceleration of GMV growth, they always ask what category growth they're underwriting in that thesis
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Jamie emphasized broad-based acceleration across all focus categories plus reinvestment in existing launched categories, noting eBay has 5 categories over $10 billion each relevant for the focus category playbook.
Calendar 2024 Q4
size eBay's position and exposure to changes in de minimis shipping and maybe just specifically to China
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Management provided clear quantification of China exposure (~5% US, ~10% total) and noted three-quarters of Greater China volume is forward deployed and already subject to tariffs.
there's a lot of changes coming to the e-commerce discovery funnel. Some retailers are treating this differently
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Jamie framed agentic commerce as another distribution channel similar to Google SEO/SEM, emphasizing eBay's unique inventory as differentiator.
UBERUber7 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
a greater risk to marketplaces direct relationship with their users as we could see an adoption of personal agents
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Dara drew parallel to travel metasearch where value accrued to consolidated players. UBER building APIs for Apple, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini while expecting majority of transactions to come direct.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how the market should expect that to play out
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Balaji described three stages: baseload trough demand (current), medium demand with lower costs expanding TAM, and long-term majority AV supply. Dara added multi-modal utilization across mobility, delivery, and freight as structural advantage.
Calendar 2025 Q2
There were some investor concerns that this partnership, in particular, with the capital around it was a negative read-through for the relationship with Waymo
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Dara framed multiple AV supply partnerships as consistent with Uber's supply-led model, noting the company can invest aggressively in AV while still returning substantial capital to shareholders.
Calendar 2025 Q1
could you talk about the duration of this opportunity and the ability to continue offsetting some of the natural deceleration
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Prashanth corrected the deceleration framing, noting top 20 cities still growing double-digits. Sparse markets converge to core margin levels once mature, with hundreds of new cities launching in 2025.
Dara, I was curious, any possibility of partnerships with the ChatGPTs of the world
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Dara described early-stage LLM experimentation for restaurant/grocery search optimization and agent experiences, positioning Uber as partner of choice given its unique transportation inventory.
Calendar 2024 Q4
When you talk about securing supply from OEM, speaking about Uber Technologies, Inc. buying cars directly
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Dara outlined a progression from early balance sheet risk to fleet partner ownership with third-party financing, expecting eventual financialization of the AV fleet model.
how much of your global mobility business do you see being addressable by autonomous vehicles due to different driver costs in certain markets
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Dara projected the AV addressable market at 10-15% of total marketplace in the next five years, gradually expanding over fifteen years, starting in higher revenue-per-mile US/European markets.
CARTMaplebear Inc.4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
I was wondering if we could get an update on the breakdown of priority orders
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Emily declined a specific priority-order percentage, stressing marketplace balance, and argued broad selection drives demand versus a first-party model.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Could you maybe speak a little bit about the contributors to advertising growth between on-site and off-site
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Maher said ads growth is driven mainly by on-platform, off-platform a smaller but growing contributor; declined to quantify Kroger.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how a theoretical small basket unit economics compares to a traditional order
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Directly explained incremental small-basket orders leverage an existing dense network and batching, with no observed trade-down from large baskets.
Calendar 2024 Q4
if we could maybe talk a little bit about take rate quarter-over-quarter and just also thinking about the seasonality
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Emily explained transaction revenue's many offsetting drivers and reinvestment choices and noted AOV pressure from restaurants and holiday fill-ins, but did not quantify take rate.
SHOPShopify4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
The question we get a lot is, for your total addressable market, what is serviceable?
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Harley said there is no GMV upper bound, cited winning large established retailers, and said Shopify has captured less than 1% of global retail sales and is still underpenetrated internationally.
Calendar 2026 Q1
I wondered if you could talk a bit about your learnings with your go-to-market strategy, if you see any opportunities for tweaks?
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Harley detailed two-track GTM (SMB velocity, enterprise depth) and personal focus on executive trust. Jeff confirmed headcount discipline continuing, marketing shifting more to performance.
Calendar 2025 Q3
what do you envision happening for the product discovery funnel? Does that compress?
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Harley positioned Shopify as agnostic to which agentic commerce form wins, noting consumers' favorite brands are on Shopify which gives them an unfair advantage in catalog-powered AI shopping experiences.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Just if you could maybe dig a little deeper on who you're targeting. With that like, a certain type of merchant, a certain certain product, a certain geography
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Jeff said there's no segment-specific focus, marketing supports all areas (SMB, enterprise, US, Europe, POS). Harley positioned AI shopping as a huge opportunity for surfacing Shopify merchant products.
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
how you think this plays out for the retail business
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Jassy said very optimistic about agentic shopping experience with 300 million Rufus customers and 60% higher purchase completion rate. Will have relationships with third-party horizontal agents but current experience lacks shopping history with wrong product details pricing and delivery estimates. Believes many customers will prefer retailer agents with full data and history over horizontal middleman agents. Retailers better at delivering broad selection low prices fast delivery and trust. Expects AI and agentic commerce to expand total online shopping which benefits Amazon.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how Amazon is planning for potential disruption in this funnel and what the plans are
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Jassy said retailers will have terms for agent interaction and Amazon will be no different. Rufus improving month to month with quick fact finding, review summarization, and personalization features. Expects occasions where customers want Rufus help to increase more throughout 2025.
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.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| DASH DoorDash | 10 | 30%3 of 10 questions |
| EBAY eBay | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions |
| UBER Uber | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions |
| CART Maplebear Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| SHOP Shopify | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 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”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions | 5 |
| 2025 Q1 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q2 | 5 | 40%2 of 5 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q3 | 4 | 25%1 of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q4 | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions | 5 |
| 2026 Q1 | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q2 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 4 |
- 2024 Q48 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 5 companies
- 2025 Q14 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q25 questions · challenge rate 40% (2 of 5 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q34 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q47 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 7 questions) · 5 companies
- 2026 Q15 questions · challenge rate 20% (1 of 5 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q24 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 4 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Competitive Dynamics13
- Cloud & AI11
- Demand10
- Margin9
- Innovation & R&D6
- Revenue Growth6
- Capex Investment5
- Pricing4
- Product Launch4
- Supply Chain2
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- Geographic Expansion2
- Subscriber Growth1
- Cost Pressure1
- Trade Tariffs1