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Coupang Q3 2024: Farfetch reaches near-breakeven EBITDA ahead of schedule

Turning around a multibillion-dollar business is no small feat! Huge thanks to our teams at Farfetch and Coupang for their hard work and dedication.

Excited to continue making structural and thoughtful changes to the business, and for what lies ahead as we continue to innovate and grow!

Coupang (NYSE: CPNG) Q3 2024 Results

CFO Commentary

"This quarter we continued the strong momentum we've seen throughout this year, delivering robust growth in revenues and margins. Our newer offerings and categories, like Fulfillment and Logistics by Coupang (FLC) and R.Lux, a new luxury offering, are examples of the massive growth opportunity from selection expansion on Rocket Delivery. We also achieved an important milestone in Developing Offerings this quarter, reaching near break-even profitability in Farfetch, earlier than planned. We remain focused on our relentless pursuit of customer wow and operational excellence."

— Gaurav Anand, CFO, Coupang

CEO Commentary

"We're very happy that the Farfetch team has achieved the end of year goal of near breakeven adjusted EBITDA in Q3. We're proud of the speed and especially its scale and the discipline with which the team has executed so far this year. There's still work to do there. And our goal is to finish the job of stabilization through the remainder of the year. Next year, we'll begin to assess other opportunities including synergies with Coupang, and we look forward to sharing updates at the appropriate time."

— Bom Kim, Founder and CEO, Coupang

Context and Performance Evolution

We completed the Farfetch acquisition at the end of Jan 2024.

Commitment in Q1 2024 earnings: "With the addition of Farfetch results in our Developing Offerings segment, we now estimate that our 2024 adjusted EBITDA losses for Developing Offerings will be around $750 million, an increase of just $100 million. We also anticipate that Farfetch will achieve close to positive adjusted EBITDA on a run-rate basis by the end of 2024."

Farfetch Adjusted EBITDA — Actual Results

PeriodAdjusted EBITDA
Q1 2024 (Feb and March)-$31M
Q2 2024-$31M
Q3 2024-$2M
Total YTD (9 months)-$64M
Q4 2024Stay tuned 🏆

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