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Analyst
Shweta Khajuria
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).
- Questions
- 50on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 0%none of 50 questions
- Companies
- 12questioned 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 50 of 50 questions from 12 companies
DASHDoorDash13 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 13 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
just overall EBITDA growth, where now we are in the back half of this year and in the light of investments this year
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Ravi said demand trends are strong with MAUs at all-time highs, and framed the philosophy as reinvesting efficiency gains to build a durable business.
Calendar 2026 Q1
how do you think about travel as an adjacency with Uber partnering with Expedia
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Tony framed partnerships through best-of-breed lens. Avoided specific travel discussion, emphasized DoorDash category strength and DashPass engagement.
how you envision your product developing over the next 12 to 24 months as you integrate more of agentic and AI capability
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Tony gave thorough vision of agentic ordering, discovery improvements, and end-to-end catalog advantages. Directly addressed the AI product roadmap.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how should we be thinking, there's a lot of maybe debate that's going on in terms of the level of investments not only in 2026, but to the degree that it may continue into 2027
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Ravi confirmed full-year 2026 EBITDA expectations unchanged. Redundant tech stack costs mostly in 2026, smaller portion in 2027. Autonomy and merchant services spending will continue if customer benefit materializes.
competitive intensity globally and specifically in Europe, if you're seeing anything different
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Tony said DoorDash is leading in many European countries. Deliveroo growing faster than expected at same profit. International growing faster than U.S. which itself had 2 fastest quarters in 4 years.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Could you please talk about where you are in terms of expanding your robots and your third-party partnerships?
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Tony described multimodal autonomous delivery platform: Dashers, land vehicles, drones, in-house and partner-built. 2026 will be commercialization year. Testing within one market first.
Could you please talk about where you're planning to invest as it relates to Deliveroo
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Tony said Deliveroo in better shape than expected. First priority is best-in-class product, then cost efficiencies from combining European teams. Ravi confirmed growth exceeding underwriting with double-digit growth.
Calendar 2025 Q2
could you please share your thoughts on how you're thinking about scaling the on- platform and off-site ads opportunity
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Tony said advertiser demand exceeds willing supply of ad surfaces. Symbiosys enables off-platform marketing as an agent for merchants. Ravi clarified ads discipline unchanged.
could you perhaps point to some specific examples around what you did on personalization and what specifically drove strength
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Tony emphasized compounding effects of multi-year product improvements across selection, affordability, quality and service. No single factor; consistent execution over 12 years.
Calendar 2025 Q1
How are you positioning yourself for the rest of the year in terms of what you could do as it relates to pricing
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Tony said no effects seen from tariffs. Food delivery is the most resilient category. Continuing to invest in selection, affordability, quality regardless of external factors.
with DoorDash Wolt and Deliveroo what the combined share is as it stands in your 40 markets?
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Tony gave high-level strategic rationale for Deliveroo but could not share specific combined share figures due to deal restrictions.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how do you think about 2025 and 2026? What are some of your goal posts for this year
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Tony outlined consistent investment philosophy: invest behind product-market fit, focus on five core areas (U.S. restaurants, international, non-restaurants, commerce platform, ads).
Could you please talk about contribution profit margins, especially in your international markets
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Ravi emphasized focus on absolute profit dollars over margin percentages. International portfolio is gross profit positive with improving trajectory.
CARTMaplebear Inc.7 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how international markets your conversations there are different as you try and expand enterprise
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Chris said international retailer conversations mirror North America's; on price parity, non-markup retailers grow more than 10 points faster and retain better.
Calendar 2026 Q1
the AI platform chooses whether it is Instacart or DoorDash or Uber Eats, which platform is the best use case
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Chris said Instacart wants to be wherever customers are while controlling the experience and its data to minimize disintermediation risk; Emily tied the 10% order step-down to lapping the $10 minimum.
Calendar 2025 Q4
As you think about medium to long term, how are you thinking about unlocking that opportunity?
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Rogers said international markets differ but sees product-market fit, entering with existing enterprise tech like Storefront Pro and Caper.
Calendar 2025 Q3
The new partnerships as well as international growth plans, can you please talk to both of those?
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Rogers cited 40 new H1 storefronts and Europe/Australia inroads with existing products; Reuter framed EBT SNAP scenarios. Direct.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how are you thinking about on-platform advertising versus perhaps some of the partnerships
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Directly framed on-platform and off-platform as one network via universal campaigns/optimized bidding, positioning as the aggregator for CPG.
Calendar 2025 Q1
when you speak with advertisers, and about forward spend or commitment, are they viewing
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Positioned as a performance-driven, at-scale aggregator; caution from advertisers is present but not drastic or widespread, only in pockets.
Calendar 2024 Q4
if you were to point to perhaps two to three key investments that you are excited about and focused on
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Fidji outlined four ad-growth pillars, performance, scale (Carrot Ads), diversification, and format innovation, with supporting metrics. Fully answered.
DUOLDuolingo, Inc.6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how is the engagement and session time across the app trending?
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Asked about session time as attention spans shrink; Luis acknowledged the challenge and said they are still experimenting on session length, with Math and Music smaller than chess.
Calendar 2026 Q1
How are you managing quality of content as that continues to grow against volume and engagement?
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Von Ahn cited AI and human evaluations plus staged user testing and said content quality has actually increased over recent quarters; direct.
Calendar 2025 Q4
How do we think about churn and/or retention rates over time as you invest in the product?
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Luis and Gilian said retention is stable over long periods, with possible upside from multi-subject users; nothing material modeled. Direct.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Could you please talk about how that trended in Q3 so far and what your expectations are?
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Asked about Max renewal trends and China; Matt said Max cohorts are still small but renewed slightly better than Super, cautioning it is early with a larger cohort due in Q4.
Calendar 2025 Q2
did you see any particular trends in the U.S. or abroad on how your ad downloads are tracking?
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Management said it does not track downloads and does not know the trend, dismissing intra-quarter engagement fears; emphasized Video Call engagement over voice-translation comparisons.
Calendar 2025 Q1
what is your vision for the Video Call feature? As it evolves over the next 1 year, 2 years, 3 years
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Luis said the goal is to maximize conversation practice by making Lily more engaging and lower-latency, boosting engagement and Max word-of-mouth.
EBAYeBay6 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
what is your view on eBay's position in agentic commerce as it relates to shoppers perhaps potentially moving to these AI platforms
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Jamie cited 90% non-new inventory, 16 million enthusiast buyers purchasing 70% of GMV in considered purchases, and the unified agentic commerce platform enabling plug-in to third-party agents including an early OpenAI Ads Pilot Program partnership.
when we think about EPS growth, could you please talk about the puts and takes
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Peggy noted OI growth as the primary EPS driver, with below-the-line headwinds (lower cash balance, higher interest expense, tax rate increase to 17.5%) roughly offsetting share repurchase accretion, while targeting ~$2B buybacks within 90-100% FCF return framework.
Calendar 2025 Q2
ad revenue has been growing pretty nicely. How do you think about durability of this revenue segment
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Jamie cited a long runway with line of sight to at least 3% GMV penetration as a medium-term goal rather than ceiling, with advertising expected to outpace GMV growth for the foreseeable future, enhanced by AI-driven optimization.
is it fair to think of it as increasing penetration of focus categories plus benefits of horizontal initiatives
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Jamie confirmed the growth framework: focus categories growing well above core, horizontal initiatives helping both focus and core, and geo-specific C2C investments as the three key drivers contributing in 2024-2025 and beyond.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how would you characterize the health of consumer today from your vantage point
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Steve carved between US (resilient) and Europe (UK consumer confidence depressed, Germany predicting third year of zero GDP growth).
what are your thoughts on leaning more aggressively on marketing spend to gain greater share
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Steve indicated the company has been effective in marketing investments and continues to balance efficiency with long-term growth investment.
PINSPinterest, Inc.5 questions · 5 reporting periods · 0 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
specifically what is driving engagement strength? It's continued to remain strong, particularly among Gen Z
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Bill attributed durable engagement to AI powered by unique human taste and curation, and Gen Z seeing Pinterest as more personalized.
Calendar 2026 Q1
Could you please talk to your view on the evolving regulatory environment and the focus on online safety for younger folks
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William framed Pinterest's safety-first choices (under-16 private by default) as a competitive advantage with Gen Z.
Calendar 2025 Q3
if you could please talk about your relationship with Magnite
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Bill said Magnite is still in early testing and teased exploring off-platform value of Pinterest's high-intent audience.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Can you please give us an update on your strategy for third-party demand?
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Bill said strategy is unchanged and named Magnite as the next SSP partner to aggregate smaller demand sources.
Calendar 2024 Q4
What are you most excited about in terms of the magnitude of the impact
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Bill stressed compounding multiyear effects with more opportunity ahead than behind.
SNAPSnap Inc.3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Could you please talk about how you view the runway for that 3% to grow?
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Evan benchmarked app-subscription penetration at 7-12% long term, implying headroom from under 3%; direct.
Calendar 2025 Q3
could you please talk to your conviction level on keeping infrastructure costs basically flat next year?
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Derek cited capacity-utilization gains, cloud pricing and cost-to-serve calibration as levers to hold infra flat; direct.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Could you please comment on the overall demand environment as you see it for both across brand and DR?
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Derek said DR demand is strongest in verticals with product-market fit (retail, CPG, health/wellness) and compute costs keep improving; direct.
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AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
how do you view that if agents would be the ones taking action to shop
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Jassy expressed confidence that agentic commerce will benefit advertising through multi-turn conversations that create multiple opportunities to surface relevant products, including sponsored prompts.
how you're thinking about the increase in price for memory and storage and just the supply chain inflation we're seeing
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Jassy acknowledged memory costs have skyrocketed but said team has secured significant supply from strategic partners. Noted the constraint is actually pushing enterprises from on-premises to cloud.
RBLXRoblox Corporation2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
any change in behavior or engagement levels for those who have completed a check or if not yet.
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Baszucki said age-check enables more accurate age-band matchmaking, which he sees as a long-term growth driver and the emerging industry gold standard.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Could you please talk about the rate of margin improvement through the year?
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Guthrie said the ~700bps margin gains won't repeat but cash flow will keep growing faster than bookings; full-year margin held with the beat baked in.
UBERUber2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q1
Dara, could you please talk about your affordability efforts? In your letter, you talked to four key areas, and affordability was one of them
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Dara detailed two affordability levers: Uber One membership (over 60% delivery penetration, 3x spend vs non-members) and merchant-funded offers driving visibility and sales for merchants.
how fast is it growing, what does the competitive landscape look like there, and how do you view consolidation
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Dara highlighted reaching #1 in UK delivery organically, strong France performance, and growing Germany category position, noting competitors are turning to inorganic expansion.
YELPYelp Inc.2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q1
Could you just please expand on your broader AI strategy and what early incrementality you're unlocking
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Stoppelman highlighted AI photo recognition in Yelp Assistant and forthcoming AI answering services for restaurants and pros as key incrementality drivers.
Calendar 2024 Q4
what is RepairPal's contribution that's baked into your guide for Q1 and for full-year revenue?
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Schwarzbach declined to break out RepairPal separately but confirmed it is reflected in revenue and EBITDA guidance, with minimal LA fire impact.
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
is it fair to think that as TPU sales scale you'd build merchant silicon business with a software stack
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Sundar: declined to project far ahead on merchant silicon, saying they will scale TPUs per demand and frontier-compute allocation needs; Philipp added YouTube ad growth drivers.
SHOPShopify1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q4
How should we think about the economics evolving and the competitive dynamics evolving as we think about agentic commerce and your role in laying out the infrastructure?
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Harley explained that under UCP, Shopify still powers the back end (order processing, payments) even when AI partners like OpenAI run the front end. Jeff confirmed no change to FCF margin philosophy, investments in agentic, Sidekick, and marketing are already reflected in current margins.
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 | 13 | 0%none of 13 questions |
| CART Maplebear Inc. | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| DUOL Duolingo, Inc. | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| EBAY eBay | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| PINS Pinterest, Inc. | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions |
| SNAP Snap Inc. | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| RBLX Roblox Corporation | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| UBER Uber | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| YELP Yelp Inc. | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
- DASHDoorDash · 13 questions0%none of 13 questions
- CARTMaplebear Inc. · 7 questions0%none of 7 questions
- DUOLDuolingo, Inc. · 6 questions0%none of 6 questions
- EBAYeBay · 6 questions0%none of 6 questions
- PINSPinterest, Inc. · 5 questions0%none of 5 questions
- SNAPSnap Inc. · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
- AMZNAmazon.com, Inc. · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- RBLXRoblox Corporation · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- UBERUber · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- YELPYelp Inc. · 2 questions—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”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 5 |
| 2025 Q1 | 11 | 0%none of 11 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q2 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q3 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 5 |
| 2025 Q4 | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions | 6 |
| 2026 Q1 | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions | 5 |
| 2026 Q2 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 6 |
- 2024 Q46 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 5 companies
- 2025 Q111 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 11 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q26 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q36 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 5 companies
- 2025 Q48 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 6 companies
- 2026 Q17 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 7 questions) · 5 companies
- 2026 Q26 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 6 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Competitive Dynamics13
- Demand11
- Innovation & R&D11
- Cloud & AI9
- Revenue Growth9
- Geographic Expansion8
- Margin8
- Capex Investment6
- Subscriber Growth6
- Pricing4
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- Product Launch3
- Macroeconomic3
- Regulation Policy2
- M&A2
- Guidance Reliability2
- Supply Chain1
- Capital Allocation1
- Trade Tariffs1