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Allegro (ALE) — threat to the moat

Eighty-nine percent growth on 3,8% of revenue, at the thinnest margin in the company.

Logistic Service Revenue grew 88,7%, which sounds transformational until it is set beside the number it grew to: 440,8 million złoty against marketplace revenue of 8 541,8 million1.

Scale of the sticky line (zl m)8 542Marketplace commission1 411Advertising441Logistic services88,7% growth on 3,8% of revenue, at the thinnest margin in the company
The stickiest line is also the smallest and the least profitable.

It is 3,8% of what Allegro earns. Even sustained at this rate it takes years to matter to the group's results, and the growth rate will not be sustained — a line doubling off a small base decelerates as a matter of arithmetic.

The margin is also the thinnest in the facet. Fulfilment is warehouses, vans and people, and the same programme that produced this revenue sits behind a 26,2% increase in delivery costs2. Advertising converts revenue into profit at close to full margin; logistics does not.

Its value is strategic, and the strategic case is genuine — it is the only thing in the business a merchant cannot replicate by opening a second listing elsewhere. Against advertising, which grew 29,7% to 1 411,0 million złoty at close to full margin3, it is the harder and less profitable half of the same land-grab.

The falsifier is the growth rate against the cost line. Logistic Service Revenue growing faster than cost of delivery means merchants are paying for capability Allegro was building anyway. The reverse would mean Allegro is subsidising its own switching costs.

References
  1. ReportedLogistic Service Revenue grew 88,7%, which sounds transformational until it is set beside the number it grew to: 440,8 million złoty against marketplace revenue of 8 541,8 million.
    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 ↗
  2. ReportedFulfilment is warehouses, vans and people, and the same programme that produced this revenue sits behind a 26,2% increase in delivery costs.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, cost review (cost of delivery of 3 578,9m złoty up 26,2% against revenue growth of 10,5%, its decomposition into Smart! volume, the expansion of Allegro Delivery and unit cost, the InPost pricing headwind under an agreement expiring in 2027, marketing service expenses at 2,07% of GMV, staff and IT costs, and capital expenditure of 470,4m) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedAgainst advertising, which grew 29,7% to 1 411,0 million złoty at close to full margin, it is the harder and less profitable half of the same land-grab.
    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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