Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. CART scored 73.5, DASH scored 47.1 — CART leads.
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CART
Maplebear Inc.
Internet Retail · Quality-Growth
73.5
$47.76 · $11.3B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
26.4
CART leads
DASH
DoorDash, Inc.
Internet Retail · Quality-Growth
47.1
$196.50 · $85.1B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestCART26.1x
Fastest growthDASH+27.9%
Strongest balance sheetCART0.01
Highest qualityCART94 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueCART-57%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
CART
stronger →← stronger
DASH
94
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
53
82
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
95
51
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
21
CART is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
CART
DASH
$1.2bC+
FCF
$2.1bB
+10.8%B
Rev
+27.9%A-
0.01A
D/E
0.33A-
26.1xC+
P/E
103.4xD
1.87C+
PEG
0.87B+
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
CART
DASH
57% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
179% above
~-9%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~45%/yr
+95%
1-yr DCF upside
-72%
+133%
5-yr DCF upside
-64%
+204%
10-yr DCF upside
-50%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
CART
Why this score
Buying back stock
Durable high returns
DASH
Why this score
Diluting shareholders
The companies
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.
DASHDoorDash, Inc.
Internet Retail · $196.50 · beta 1.89
Why now
Internet Retail · market cap $85.1b. Down 31% from 52-week high of $285.50 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +28% — in hypergrowth territory. PEG 0.87 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 42 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $257.72 (implying +31% upside).
Moat
Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income, mostly because of stock-based pay ($1.1b) — a real cost to shareholders, paid in shares rather than cash. $85.1b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Trailing P/E 103.4x prices in sustained high growth — any quarter that disappoints triggers sharp re-rating. Down 31% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up. Beta 1.89 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where CART and DASH diverge
On the headline score the gap is 26.4 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.
QualityCART 93.7 · DASH 53.1CART +40.6
ValueCART 51.5 · DASH 20.6CART +30.9
GrowthCART 82.4 · DASH 95.4DASH +13.0
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 DASH the better stock?
CART scores higher: CART 73.5, DASH 47.1 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 DASH differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where CART leads by 41 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 DASH 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.