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what it is
Grab lets you book rides, order food, send packages, and use digital finance across eight Southeast Asian countries.
how it gets paid
Last year Grab made $3.4B in revenue.
why it's growing
Revenue grew 20.5% last year. The clean headline was profitability. Grab delivered a full-year 2025 net profit of $200M on roughly $3.4B of revenue.
what just happened
Grab posted $0.04 EPS versus a $0.01 estimate, a 300% surprise, and kept its first profitable-year story alive.
At a glance
B+ balance sheet — decent shape, but not bulletproof
87.6x trailing p/e — you're paying up for this one
8.0% return on capital — nothing to write home about
xvary composite: 40/100 — below average
$0.10 fy2026 eps est
What they do
Grab lets you book rides, order food, send packages, and use digital finance across eight Southeast Asian countries.
Grab operates in more than 800 cities across eight countries, which makes scale hard to copy. Network effects (more riders and drivers attract each other → better service → stickier usage) matter here because your app works for rides, food, packages, and payments in one place. Leaving is annoying when one app already handles your daily errands.
How they make money
$3.4B
annual revenue · their business grew +20.5% last year
total revenue
$3.4B
+20.5%
The products that matter
ride-hailing marketplace
mobility
part of a $3.4B platform
Mobility is one leg of the $3.4B business, but this page does not break out segment revenue. That matters because transport demand often sets the cadence for everything else in a super-app.
core habit
food and parcel delivery
deliveries
part of +20.5% growth
Delivery sits inside the company-wide 20.5% growth story, but the page gives no separate revenue or margin line. That is thin, because delivery economics can improve slowly even when total revenue looks healthy.
frequency driver
payments and financial products
digital financial services
part of an ~$18B equity story
Financial services are part of why the market gives Grab an ~$18B value. The catch is simple: this snapshot does not show the segment math, so you are underwriting optionality more than disclosed profit today.
valuation lever
Key numbers
$7B
2028 revenue est
That is the long-range revenue target versus $3.4B today. You need roughly a doubling of the business to justify the optimism.
87.6x
trailing p/e
Price-to-earnings → how many years of current profit you are paying for → you are paying a growth multiple for a newly profitable company.
15.0%
operating margin
Operating margin → profit after core costs → so what: Grab finally has real earnings power, but not enough to absorb many mistakes.
$320M
long-term debt
Debt is just 2% of capital, which means the balance sheet is not the problem here. Execution is.
Financial health
B+
strength
- balance sheet grade B+ — solid but not elite
- risk rank 4 — safer than 20% of stocks
- price stability 10 / 100
- long-term debt $320M (2% of capital)
- net profit margin 14.3% — keeps 14 cents of every dollar in revenue
- return on equity 10% — $0.10 profit for every $1 investors have put in
B+ — functional but not a standout on the balance sheet.
Total return vs. market
You invested $10,000 in GRAB 3 years ago → it's now worth $12,230.
The index would have given you $14,770.
source: institutional data · total return
What just happened
beat estimates
Grab posted $0.04 EPS versus a $0.01 estimate, a 300% surprise, and kept its first profitable-year story alive.
The clean headline was profitability. Grab delivered a full-year 2025 net profit of $200M on roughly $3.4B of revenue, while quarterly EPS stayed positive for all four quarters of 2025.
$3.4B
revenue
$0.04
eps
43.2%
gross margin
the number that mattered
The number was $0.04 EPS because it beat the $0.01 estimate by 300%, proving profit is no longer theoretical.
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grab holdings likely made progress during the final months of 2025. (the international technology company was slated to deliver its results just after we published this report.) for full-year 2025, we think revenues reached $3.4 billion, representing a better-than-20% annual advance.we believe grab's three main business units (deliveries, mobility, and financial services) all made positive contributions.
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for the past year, gmv (gross merchandise value) and the number of users have been moving higher.the loan portfolio, now near the $1 billion mark, has also been making progress. The bottom line has probably been firming up. we expect grab to report profits of $0.05 per share for the full year 2025, in line with our prior forecast. operating margins have started to widen over the past year, with a larger top line offsetting fixed costs.
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looking ahead, it will be critical for grab to control spending, even while expanding the business.
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the company is making a push to enter the autonomous driving arena.grab, in conjunction with its technology partners, recently announced plans to launch a self-driving vehicle services in select locations. in addition, grab recently agreed to acquire a minority interest in vay technology, an autonomous driving company, for $60 million in cash. the deal calls for grab to invest another $350 million within the first year, assuming certain milestone are achieved.
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vay is headquarter in germany, but has substantial operations in the u.s.
source: company earnings report, 2026
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What could go wrong
Grab's main risk is premium valuation before the economics are fully proven. 87.6x trailing earnings and 8.0% return on capital do not leave much room for a stumble.
med
multiple compression can happen before the business matures
The stock trades at 87.6x trailing earnings while fy2026 eps is only estimated at $0.10. That is a lot of optimism packed into a small earnings base.
If growth stays good but not great, the multiple can do the damage on its own.
med
scale is improving faster than capital efficiency
Revenue grew 20.5% and operating margin reached 15.0%, but return on capital is still just 8.0%.
That gap is the risk. A bigger platform is useful only if it turns into much better economics.
med
you are buying a volatile stock, not a stable compounder
Price stability is 10 / 100, and the stock has traded between $3 and $7 over the past 52 weeks.
Even if the long-term story holds, the path can still be messy enough to test your conviction.
The whole case rests on $3.4B of revenue continuing to grow while 8.0% return on capital moves meaningfully higher. If one side stalls, the premium multiple becomes the story.
source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Pay attention to
earnings
the next print has to defend the premium
At 87.6x trailing earnings, a merely okay quarter can still disappoint the stock.
metric
return on capital versus operating margin
15.0% operating margin looks good. 8.0% return on capital says the job is not finished.
trend
whether institutional buying keeps showing up
Three straight quarters of net buying matters more if it becomes a longer pattern.
risk
volatility is not a side note here
A $3–$7 range and 10 / 100 price stability tell you sentiment can move faster than fundamentals.
Analyst rankings
short-term outlook
below average
outlook rank 4 — analysts see underperformance risk in the near term.
risk profile
below average
risk rank 4 — more volatile than most — brace for bigger swings.
chart momentum
top 20%
momentum rank 2 — analysts expect above-average price performance in the year ahead.
source: institutional data
Institutional activity
institutions have been net buying for 3 consecutive quarters — 299 buyers vs. 187 sellers in 3q2025. total institutional holdings: 3.1B shares. net buying for 3 quarters.
source: institutional data
Price targets
3-5 year target range
$3
$7
$4
current price
$5
target midpoint · +14% from current · 3-5yr high: $10 (+130% · 23% ann'l return)
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