Instacart stock falls, CFO expects transaction guidance miss

Shares of Instacart (CART), the popular grocery delivery platform incorporated as Maplebear, are falling following a statement from the company's newly appointed Chief Financial Officer Emily Reuter at the JPMorgan Investor Day conference. During the event, Reuter conveyed that Instacart does not anticipate its gross transaction value (GTV) to surpass the current guidance provided to investors.

Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman and Jared Blikre break down the details.

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Video transcript

Instacart shares sliding after a Chief Financial Officer was looking to manage expectations over the company's gross transaction value guidance saying at a conference, this was a JP Morgan conference, it will not exceed the previous estimates.

And uh Julie, I was looking at the Wi Fi Interactive here.

I hadn't car, I hadn't shown our mobility dashboard in a little bit here and here we can see, uh let me get the year to date totals.

There we go.

Um And I'm not sure what happened to cart here.

So maybe I'm maybe that uh fell off my radar anyway, my point was we do have a trend that some of the uh the actual providers of uh of ride sharing.

And also these delivery services are doing well.

Well, the rental car business has just really taken a hit.

But beyond that, you know, this is a comment that comes from CFO Emily Reuter at the JP Morgan conference.

And she said basically she doesn't exede that she doesn't expect them to exceed their gross transaction value grid.

And so there had been some speculation they would, they just said they wouldn't and stock takes a little bit of a hit.

Yeah.

And just for some perspective here, the stock is up some 40% year to date, but it is down about 16%.

It closed at a record high on April 5th.

And since then, it's fallen about 16%.

So, you know, remember just in public in last September and that gross transaction value forecast just came on May 9th, that's when the company came out with the forecast.

It was in line with what analysts were expecting and the stock went down.

So maybe there were still some hopes out there.

Well, maybe that wasn't the last word on it.

Maybe they were going to come out and beat that forecast and she seems to be putting that to bed with a comment today.

So there you go.

That explains that the tumble.