For Zomato, growth is a tall order
Mint Mumbai|May 23, 2023
Zomato Ltd is walking the talk. At the time of announcing its June 2022 quarter results (Q1FY23), the company had targeted to turn adjusted Ebitda positive by Q4FY23. This excludes quick commerce business Blinkit. Zomato had also mentioned that if it slipped on this target, then it would reach its goal latest by Q2FY24.
Vineetha Sampath & Pallavi Pengonda
For Zomato, growth is a tall order

The good news is that amid moderating growth, the online food delivery company has met its target in Q4, turning adjusted Ebitda positive of 28 crore. One factor that led to better-than-expected profitability was higher take rate in Zomato’s core business, which is food delivery. Here, contribution profit as percentage of gross order value (GOV) rose to 5.8% from 5.1% in Q3. Take rate is revenue as a percentage of GOV.

While this is encouraging, growth in food delivery business has been tapering. For perspective, sequential GOV growth in Q1, Q2 and Q3 was around 10%, 3% and 0.7%. Zomato rushed to reverse slowdown through launch of membership programme Zomato Gold in late January. However, the industry wide slowdown has meant GOV fell by 1.7% sequentially in Q4 to 6,569 crore.

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