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Introduction & Market Context
Grab Holdings (NASDAQ:GRAB) presented its Q2 2026 earnings results on August 4, 2026, showcasing robust profitability growth despite regional fuel price pressures that challenged driver economics across Southeast Asia. The company’s adjusted EBITDA surged 54% year-over-year to $168 million, more than doubling the pace of revenue growth and demonstrating improved operating leverage across its mobility, delivery, and financial services platforms.
Investors responded positively to the results and raised full-year guidance, pushing shares up 5.14% to $3.68 in regular trading, with an additional 2.99% gain to $3.79 in after-hours trading. The performance marked Grab’s 18th consecutive quarter of adjusted EBITDA growth, reinforcing the company’s trajectory toward sustained profitability in the fragmented Southeast Asian market.
Quarterly Performance Highlights
As shown in the following summary of Q2 2026 financial highlights, Grab delivered broad-based growth across key metrics while expanding profitability margins significantly.
The company’s revenue reached $997 million, representing 22% year-over-year growth and 21% growth on a constant currency basis. On-demand gross merchandise value climbed 21% to $6.5 billion, while the group’s monthly transacting users expanded 17% to reach a record 53.9 million users. The adjusted EBITDA margin widened substantially to 16.9% of revenue, up from 13.3% in the prior-year quarter, indicating that scale is converting into improved unit economics.
The following chart illustrates consolidated group financials, comparing Q2 2025 to Q2 2026 performance across revenue, on-demand GMV, and adjusted EBITDA metrics.
Operating profit reached $19 million, up 186% from $7 million in Q2 2025, while reported profit for the period surged to $235 million from $20 million a year earlier. The company’s adjusted free cash flow stood at $73 million for the quarter, with a trailing-12-month figure of $450 million, though the quarterly figure declined 35% year-over-year due to increased working capital deployment in the rapidly expanding financial services segment.
Navigating Fuel Crisis While Growing Driver Base
A significant operational challenge during Q2 2026 was the regional fuel crisis that peaked in May 2026, forcing Grab to increase driver incentives to maintain marketplace health and driver supply. Despite these headwinds, the company achieved record driver engagement levels.
The following chart demonstrates monthly active driver trends and the corresponding driver incentive spending per driver from January 2025 through June 2026, with a notable spike during the 2026 fuel crisis period.
Monthly active drivers grew 19% year-over-year to reach an all-time high, while on-demand driver incentives per monthly active driver increased 12% year-over-year due to elevated fuel costs. However, incentives declined 3% quarter-over-quarter, suggesting the acute pressure from fuel prices began moderating toward the end of the quarter.
To reduce driver-partner exposure to fuel volatility over the long term, Grab accelerated its electric vehicle transition strategy. Total four-wheel EV monthly active drivers and trips increased 25% and 29% quarter-over-quarter respectively, positioning the platform to benefit from lower operating costs as EV adoption scales across its driver network.
Deliveries Segment: GrabMart Emerges as Growth Driver
Grab’s deliveries segment demonstrated strong momentum, with particular strength in grocery delivery through its GrabMart platform. The segment’s performance is illustrated in the following chart.
Deliveries revenue reached $531 million, up 21% year-over-year (19% on a constant currency basis), while gross merchandise value grew 22% to $4.2 billion. Segment adjusted EBITDA surged 53% to $96 million, expanding the margin to 2.3% of GMV from 1.8% in the prior year.
The standout performer within deliveries was GrabMart, which demonstrated accelerating adoption and frequency. As shown in the following visual highlighting GrabMart’s growth metrics and user interface features, the grocery delivery platform is gaining significant traction.
GrabMart transactions grew 54% year-over-year, while online SKUs sold expanded 52% and average monthly transacting users increased 42%. Most notably, GrabMart’s GMV growth rate was 1.7 times higher than GrabFood’s, indicating that grocery delivery is becoming a key differentiator for the platform. The company enhanced the user experience with features like AI-powered shopping lists that allow customers to type, paste, upload receipts, or speak their grocery needs for hands-free shopping.
Mobility Segment: Sustained Growth Despite Pricing Pressure
The mobility segment continued to deliver solid results, though revenue growth lagged GMV expansion due to competitive pricing dynamics and the introduction of lower-priced "saver" products.
Mobility revenue increased 12% year-over-year to $331 million, while gross merchandise value grew at a faster 18% pace to $2.2 billion, indicating some take-rate compression. Segment adjusted EBITDA rose 16% to $191 million, maintaining a healthy margin of 8.6% of GMV, consistent with the company’s historical range of 8.5% to 9%.
The divergence between GMV and revenue growth reflects Grab’s strategic decision to maintain driver supply and consumer demand through the fuel crisis period, accepting some near-term margin pressure to preserve long-term marketplace health. Management indicated in the earnings call that mobility margins should remain within the historical range in the second half of 2026.
Financial Services: Rapid Scaling Toward Profitability
Grab’s financial services segment demonstrated the most dramatic growth trajectory, driven by the consolidation of Superbank and the acquisition of Stash, combined with organic expansion of its lending and digital banking operations.
The following chart illustrates the financial services segment’s performance, including the tripling of the gross loan portfolio.
Financial services revenue jumped 59% year-over-year (62% on a constant currency basis) to $134 million, while the gross loan portfolio surged 197% to $2.3 billion. Total loans disbursed accelerated to 72% year-over-year growth, reaching an annualized run-rate of $5.0 billion in Q2 2026. Importantly, non-performing loan ratios remained stable across portfolios despite the rapid expansion, indicating prudent credit risk management.
The segment’s adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed significantly to $15 million from $26 million in the prior year, representing a 41% improvement. The segment adjusted EBITDA margin improved to -11.2% of revenue from -30.3%, demonstrating clear progress toward management’s stated goal of achieving profitability in the second half of 2026.
The following visualization shows the growth trajectories of both Stash’s assets under management and Superbank’s gross loan portfolio.
Stash’s assets under management reached $5.5 billion in 2026, showing steady acceleration from 2020 onward. Superbank’s gross loan portfolio grew to $758 million in Q2 2026, with the 90-day delinquency NPL percentage trending downward, indicating improving loan quality as the platform matures. Management noted that Superbank now serves more than 7.4 million customers with daily transactions exceeding 1 million, and that over 60% of Superbank users also utilize Grab and OVO services, demonstrating strong ecosystem integration.
The detailed growth of the overall gross loan portfolio is shown in the following chart, breaking down contributions from GrabFin, GxS Bank, GX Bank, and Superbank.
Excluding Superbank, the gross loan portfolio still grew 100% year-over-year to $1.6 billion, indicating that organic lending growth remained robust across Grab’s financial services offerings. Management expects the total loan book to exceed $3 billion by year-end 2026, with Superbank’s cost-to-income ratio projected to fall below 50%.
Raised Outlook and Strategic Priorities
Based on the strong Q2 performance and continued momentum in core businesses, Grab raised its full-year 2026 guidance across both revenue and profitability metrics.
The company now expects 2026 revenue of $4.10 billion to $4.15 billion, representing 22% to 23% year-over-year growth, up from the previous guidance range of $4.04 billion to $4.10 billion. Adjusted EBITDA guidance increased to $720 million to $740 million (44% to 48% growth), up from the prior range of $700 million to $720 million.
Management noted that the raised guidance reflects stronger core business momentum, the consolidation of Superbank and Stash, and continued support for drivers affected by fuel price volatility, while also incorporating 2% to 3% foreign exchange headwinds. The company announced a new $750 million share buyback authorization, signaling confidence in its financial position and commitment to returning capital to shareholders while continuing to invest in growth initiatives.
Looking ahead, Grab highlighted several strategic priorities including further penetration of grocery delivery through GrabMart, achieving profitability in financial services during the second half of 2026, and launching its first revenue-generating autonomous vehicle service in Punggol, Singapore, expected to open to the public with commercial fares in Q4 2026. This would represent the first revenue-generating autonomous service of its kind in Southeast Asia.
The company’s net cash liquidity position of $5.4 billion provides substantial flexibility to execute on these initiatives while maintaining investment in driver incentives, technology development, and potential strategic acquisitions. With 18 consecutive quarters of adjusted EBITDA growth now achieved, Grab appears positioned to sustain its profitability trajectory while capturing additional market share across its mobility, delivery, and financial services platforms in the underpenetrated Southeast Asian market.
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