Toast: 3 Key Takeaways for Long-Term Investors
Key PointsRecurring gross profit streams grew 27% year over year in the third quarter.
Toast (TOST) reported a 27% year-over-year growth in recurring gross profit streams during its third-quarter 2026 earnings call held on Nov. 3, 2026. The company is expanding into automated agentic platform tools that manage labor scheduling and customer marketing, with AI software agents already reducing overtime hours by 41% per employee in early testing.
Toast is also targeting new markets such as international, enterprise, and retail, with these new business lines scaling to $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) while requiring 25% less direct R&D spending than the core business. The company's total take rate, measured by recurring gross profit as a percentage of gross payment volume, reached 104 basis points in Q3, up 6 basis points from a year ago.
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