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Allegro (ALE) — threat to the moat

The better model books less revenue, and revenue is the number most people model.

Converting from first-party retail to a marketplace improves almost everything except the number most people look at.

Same sale, two modelsItem sellsfor 500 zł1P books 500zł of revenueMarketplacebooks ~39 złAlmostidentical profitAt the international take rate of 7,87%
The better model books less revenue, and revenue is the number most people model.

Allegro's international revenue fell 46,1% in 20251 while the business underneath it grew, and the consequence is visible in how the company is followed: the Q2 2026 preliminary release shows group revenue up 16,3% and GMV up 13,7%2, two growth rates for one business, with the relationship between them shifting as the model mix changes.

The reporting risk is not cosmetic. A company whose headline revenue is depressed by a deliberate strategy is a company that has to explain itself every quarter, and the explanation competes with a simpler and wrong story about a shrinking international business.

Allegro's protection is that the conversion is now essentially finished. Retail revenue fell to 743,4 million złoty from 1 225,6 million3 and first-party GMV to 880,7 million from 1 448,8 million4 — what remains is small enough that its further decline cannot distort the group.

Watch group revenue against group GMV. They have been diverging while the model changed; they should now converge, and continued divergence would mean something other than the wind-down is at work.

References
  1. Third-party estimateAllegro's international revenue fell 46,1% in 2025 while the business underneath it grew, and the consequence is visible in how the company is followed: the Q2 2026 preliminary release shows group revenue up 16,3% and GMV up 13,7%, two...
    Allegro.eu current report 31/2026 - selected PRELIMINARY, unaudited and unreviewed consolidated financial data for the three and six months ended 30 June 2026 (group GMV of 36 865,1m złoty up 13,7%, revenue up 16,3%, adjusted EBITDA of 1 961,9m up 16,9%, Polish adjusted EBITDA of 2 170,7m against an international loss of 208,7m, international GMV up 64,8%), published early because the share buyback was about to begin; the reviewed half-year report is scheduled for 17 September 2026 — H1 2026 (preliminary) · publ. 13 July 2026 · source ↗
  2. Third-party estimateAllegro's international revenue fell 46,1% in 2025 while the business underneath it grew, and the consequence is visible in how the company is followed: the Q2 2026 preliminary release shows group revenue up 16,3% and GMV up 13,7%, two...
    Allegro.eu current report 31/2026 - selected PRELIMINARY, unaudited and unreviewed consolidated financial data for the three and six months ended 30 June 2026 (group GMV of 36 865,1m złoty up 13,7%, revenue up 16,3%, adjusted EBITDA of 1 961,9m up 16,9%, Polish adjusted EBITDA of 2 170,7m against an international loss of 208,7m, international GMV up 64,8%), published early because the share buyback was about to begin; the reviewed half-year report is scheduled for 17 September 2026 — H1 2026 (preliminary) · publ. 13 July 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedRetail revenue fell to 743,4 million złoty from 1 225,6 million and first-party GMV to 880,7 million from 1 448,8 million — what remains is small enough that its further decline cannot distort the group.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, financial review (revenue of 11 458,1m złoty by line, cost of delivery of 3 578,9m up 26,2% with its decomposition and the InPost pricing headwind under an agreement expiring in 2027, the other cost lines, EBITDA of 3 276,6m and capital expenditure of 470,4m) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedRetail revenue fell to 743,4 million złoty from 1 225,6 million and first-party GMV to 880,7 million from 1 448,8 million — what remains is small enough that its further decline cannot distort the group.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, financial review (revenue of 11 458,1m złoty by line, cost of delivery of 3 578,9m up 26,2% with its decomposition and the InPost pricing headwind under an agreement expiring in 2027, the other cost lines, EBITDA of 3 276,6m and capital expenditure of 470,4m) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
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