Maplebear Inc.

CARTdata completeness 88%5 fiscal years on file

Data notes: no data for concept 'totalDebt'; no data for concept 'interestExpense'

The thesis, from the filings

Maplebear Inc. earns about -17% on invested capital, below its ~9% cost of capital, but has diluted owners by 324% over 5 years — no moat visible in the numbers. The estimate methods put fair value between $15.86 and $135.16 a share.Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.

i. The business — what you’d actually own
FigureFY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$1.83B1$2.55B2$3.04B3$3.38B3$3.74B3
Net income−$73M4$428M5−$1.62B6$457M6$447M6
Operating cash flow−$204M7$277M8$586M9$687M9$971M9
Capital expenditure$13M10$24M11$54M12$64M12$61M12
Free cash flow (derived)−$217M7$253M8$532M9$623M9$910M9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$1.15B13$1.51B14$2.14B15$1.28B15$637M15
Diluted shares65.9M101.5M130.6M289.2M279.6M

Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom).

ii. Your slice — ownership made literal
If you owned
shares
Net assets behind them
$90.05
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$15.99
Free cash flow it threw off
$32.54
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $90.05 of net worth that earned you $15.99 and generated $32.54 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
-17% avg · 5y
FY21 FY22 FY23 -101%FY24 25%FY25 24%

It earned about -17% on invested capital against a ~9% cost of capital — below the cost of funding. The numbers show no moat.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
+324% shares · 5y

Share count is up 324% over 5 years — owners have been diluted. Worth asking what they got for it.

reading capital allocation →

Signals, not verdicts — read from the filings above. Numbers don’t prove a moat; they show its footprint. You decide.

iv. What it’s worth — engine v0.1.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $15.86 and $135.16 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story; the Graham Number is a stricter floor, not a target.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$135.16
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$623M
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$74.92
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$623M
Earnings Power Value
$15.86
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$428M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$18.01
assumptions (1)
  • grahamMultiplier2250.0%

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

v. The price question — last, on purpose
Is today’s price fair?
See live price ↗
Type a price. The ledger answers.
Or set your own belief
FCF growth, next 5 years20.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $74.92
The three cases
Bear0.0%$34.11
Base20.0%$74.92
Bull20.0%$74.92

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 20.0%= this company’s own filed history (median-to-median FCF CAGR, clamped 0–20%). Your adjustments are recorded anonymously. They become the “what do owners actually believe” dataset.

Sources — the receipts
  1. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001579091-24-000027 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001579091-25-000015 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001579091-26-000018 (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001579091-24-000027 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001579091-25-000015 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001579091-26-000018 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001579091-24-000027 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001579091-25-000015 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001579091-26-000018 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001579091-24-000027 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001579091-25-000015 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001579091-26-000018 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001579091-24-000027 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001579091-25-000015 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001579091-26-000018 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)