Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. AMZN scored 67.9, CART scored 73.5 — CART leads.
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Different reporting periods. CART's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but AMZN's are as of March 2026 — a 3-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
AMZN
Amazon.com, Inc.
Internet Retail · Quality-Growth
67.9
$262.43 · $2.8T
fundamentals as of
Score gap
5.6
CART leads
CART
Maplebear Inc.
Internet Retail · Quality-Growth
73.5
$47.76 · $11.3B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
Fastest growthAMZN+12.4%
Strongest balance sheetCART0.01
Highest qualityCART94 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueCART-57%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
AMZN
stronger →← stronger
CART
63
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
94
86
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
82
58
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
51
AMZN is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
AMZN
CART
-$2.5bF
FCF
$1.2bC+
+12.4%B+
Rev
+10.8%B
0.46B+
D/E
0.01A
3.6xC
P/S
—
1.48B
PEG
1.87C+
—
P/E
26.1xC+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
AMZN
CART
—
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
57% below
—
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~-9%/yr
—
1-yr DCF upside
+95%
—
5-yr DCF upside
+133%
—
10-yr DCF upside
+204%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
AMZN
No notable signals flagged.
CART
Why this score
Buying back stock
Durable high returns
The companies
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.
Internet Retail · $262.43 · beta 1.46
Why now
Internet Retail · market cap $2.8T. 9% off the 52-week high of $287.20. Revenue growing +12%, comfortably above the S&P median. 58 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $331.53 (implying +26% upside).
Moat
Net margin 17% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 31% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which. $2.8T market cap places it among the largest companies in the sector — distribution, R&D, and customer-acquisition costs amortize across a base peers can't replicate.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$2.5b) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage risk. Beta 1.46 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return. E-commerce competition — Amazon, Walmart, Shein, and Temu have each forced the rest of the category to compete on price, fulfillment speed, or assortment; sustaining margins requires one of those being structurally defended.
CARTMaplebear Inc.
Internet Retail · $47.76 · beta 0.87
Why now
Internet Retail · market cap $11.3b. 9% off the 52-week high of $52.68. Revenue growing +11%, comfortably above the S&P median. 28 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $58.21 (implying +22% upside).
Moat
Net margin 12% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 16% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income, mostly because of stock-based pay ($401m) — a real cost to shareholders, paid in shares rather than cash.
Risk
E-commerce competition — Amazon, Walmart, Shein, and Temu have each forced the rest of the category to compete on price, fulfillment speed, or assortment; sustaining margins requires one of those being structurally defended.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where AMZN and CART diverge
On the headline score the gap is 5.6 points in favor of CART. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
QualityAMZN 62.7 · CART 93.7CART +31.0
ValueAMZN 58.2 · CART 51.5AMZN +6.7
GrowthAMZN 86.0 · CART 82.4AMZN +3.6
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is CART or AMZN the better stock?
CART scores higher: CART 73.5, AMZN 67.9 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do CART and AMZN differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where CART leads by 31 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are CART and AMZN scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.