DoorDash (DASH) Stock Rises 5% as Company Exits Four Markets – Here’s Why

TLDR

• DoorDash is exiting Qatar, Singapore, Japan, and Uzbekistan to focus on markets with clearer growth potential.
• The company is closing Deliveroo’s Bengaluru engineering hub and redistributing that talent.
• DoorDash says the exits won’t impact its financial guidance.
• The stock rose 5% on the news but is down 21.3% year to date, trading around $173.06.
• DoorDash is also pushing into restaurant reservations via its $1.2 billion SevenRooms acquisition, going up against OpenTable and Resy.

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DoorDash is pulling out of Qatar, Singapore, Japan, and Uzbekistan. The San Francisco-based company said the decision follows a monthslong review of conditions in each country.

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The company said it wants to put its resources into markets where it can build “sustainable scale and long-term market leadership.” That’s a straightforward admission that not every market was working out.

DoorDash came late to some of these markets. It only started operations in Japan in 2021, five years after Uber Eats had already set up shop there. Deliveroo, which DoorDash acquired last year, had only been in Qatar since 2022.

In Singapore, it faced GrabFood and Foodpanda. In Uzbekistan, Russia-based Yandex Eats had a firm hold. These weren’t easy markets to crack.

Along with the market exits, DoorDash is closing Deliveroo’s engineering hub in Bengaluru, India. Engineering staff from that office will be redistributed elsewhere within the company.

DoorDash said the moves won’t affect its financial guidance. The market seemed to like the clarity — DASH stock jumped 5% on the news.

That said, the stock is still down 21.3% year to date and has dropped 17.4% over the past month. It’s trading around $173.06.

Reservation Wars

While trimming its international delivery footprint, DoorDash is simultaneously pushing into a new battleground: restaurant reservations.

In June, DoorDash announced a $1.2 billion acquisition of SevenRooms, a platform focused on direct bookings through restaurant websites. It puts DoorDash in direct competition with OpenTable and Resy.

Uber Eats already partnered with Booking Holdings’ OpenTable to integrate reservations into its app. American Express, which owns Resy, bought upscale reservation platform Tock for $400 million in 2024.

This summer, Resy plans to add Tock’s 5,000 venues to its platform, bringing its total to about 25,000 restaurants. OpenTable still leads with roughly 60,000.

DoorDash holds about 67% of the U.S. food delivery market as of 2025, according to Deliverect. Uber Eats is in second place at 23%.

International Strategy

Internationally, DoorDash has been playing catch-up. Uber Eats has a stronger global presence, which is part of why DoorDash bought Deliveroo and Finnish delivery service Wolt in 2021.

The latest market exits suggest DoorDash is being selective about where it fights those battles. Rather than spreading thin across markets where rivals are entrenched, it’s consolidating around geographies where it sees a real shot at leadership.

The Bengaluru hub closure is part of that same operational tightening — reallocating engineering resources rather than maintaining outposts in markets being wound down.

DoorDash stock has a 1-year return of 12.9% and a 5-year return of 16.7%, despite the recent pullback.

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