DoorDash Is Down 50%, and It Might Get Worse

Motley Fool2021-05-18

The food delivery giant released first-quarter results on May 13, and investors are still waiting for signs of ever-elusive profits. Food delivery services have been immensely convenient during the ...

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TizzyT
2021-05-18
TizzyT
Buy the dip??
- Flamer:
  really?
MrWondeful
2021-05-18
MrWondeful
Oops
Atwosome
2021-05-18
Atwosome
Surprise... I tot it is a good idea for food delivery business?

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Companies like DoorDash (NYSE:DASH) have been big beneficiaries, growing gross order volumes and revenue materially. However, amid rising costs and narrow margins, it has also been a struggle to get that extra cash flowing through to the bottom line.\nDoorDash released its first-quarter report on May 13, and while order growth has continued, the problem still lies in delivering earnings to investors. It's not alone, though, with a key competitor suffering the same issues in its own report. Despite a positive initial reaction,DoorDash stock is still down nearly 50% from the all-time high it reached in January -- and a continued lack of profits won't help to arrest the decline.\nIMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.\nConsumers are out and about but still ordering in\nEarlier this year, DoorDash issued some bullish guidance for the first quarter with $8.6 billion to $9.1 billion in gross order value (the amount of money consumers spend on food on its platform). 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It signed partnerships with Vault Health and Everlywell to provide consumers with rapid COVID-19 tests, facilitating a 48-hour turnaround between delivery and final results.\nThis adds to DoorDash's growing healthcare segment, which already provides consumers with prescription medicine delivery services. The company hasn't offered revenue guidance for the new COVID-19 test services. However, any benefit is likely to be short term in nature as the pandemic subsides.\nConverting growth into earnings\nDoorDash delivered on its adjusted EBITDA projection for the quarter, generating $43 million. While that's a great result compared to the negative $70 million in the year-ago period, it represents a more-than-50% decline versus the fourth quarter when the company posted $94 million in adjusted EBITDA.\nStill, positive EBITDA is just one part of the equation. Despite consecutive reports with positive numbers, the company continues to report overall net losses, and the total addressable market for this company is not infinite. Eventually, it's going to run out of opportunities to scale. Like UberEats, DoorDash has an anemic EBITDA margin -- just 4% -- which clearly isn't enough to deliver consistent net income.\nThe question remains: can DoorDash replicate the growth it enjoyed last year in the remainder of 2021? It appears unlikely -- based on the company's guidance so far -- that it'll grow the top line over 225% this year as it did in 2020 (despite the strong first-quarter result). Ultimately, it may never capture a set of tailwinds as powerful as what the pandemic offered for its business.\nIf peak growth was achieved last year, and DoorDash still failed to deliver positive earnings, it could be a sign that the business model needs a major overhaul. 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