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Updated: Jan 10, 2026

Stock Analysis

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Maplebear
NASDAQ:CART
$39.00
$0.45 |1.17%
Day Range:
$38.52 - $39.61
Market Cap:
10.78B
P/E Ratio:
23.6429
Avg Value:
$41.04
Year Range:
$34.78 - $47.29
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General Information
Maplebear (Instacart) is a grocery-focused delivery marketplace that connects national and regional grocers with consumers and couriers, and consumers with their favorite stores.

Its app provides on-demand convenience for consumers, allows couriers to earn income, and helps grocers to scale their business through digital channels. The marketplace gathers valuable consumer behavior data, attracting consumer-packaged-goods advertisers that seek to reach consumers at the point of purchase. With approximately 600,000 shoppers and 1,800 retail partners, Instacart delivers to about 98% of households in the United States and Canada.

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Maplebear (CART) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Maplebear (CART)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Maplebear (CART) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

70.03

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how Maplebear compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
ACIAlbertsons Companies
43.77
42.72
0
12.04
SFMSprouts Farmers Market
65.45
96.25
0
1.75
TBBBBBB Foods
28.2
0
0
77.01
WMKWeis Markets
90.07
69.96
0
26.76
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 10 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $40.00 - $60.00 with an average of $49.73

21.11%
Expected movement for Maplebear (CART) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Maplebear (CART)

Cantor Fitzgerald
Date:
Jan 8, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$45.00
New Target:
$54.00
Jefferies
Date:
Dec 11, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$41.00
New Target:
$48.00
Citigroup
Date:
Nov 11, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$65.00
New Target:
$50.00
BMO Capital
Date:
Nov 11, 2025
Action:
Upgrades
Prev. Target:
$58.00
New Target:
$58.00
JP Morgan
Date:
Nov 11, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$65.00
New Target:
$55.00
Benchmark
Date:
Nov 11, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$67.00
New Target:
$60.00
Needham
Date:
Nov 11, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$66.00
New Target:
$50.00
Wedbush
Date:
Oct 29, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$42.00
New Target:
$40.00
Stifel
Date:
Oct 24, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$56.00
New Target:
$49.00
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.1789

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 3.3305

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 0.3129

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows Maplebear (CART) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent Maplebear (CART) ratio values.
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Past Performance
How has Maplebear (CART) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Maplebear (CART) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is 0.0246 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.0005