GoTo Group posted its second consecutive quarterly net profit in Q2 2026, as fintech growth and cost discipline lifted Indonesia’s largest digital platform out of a year-ago loss.
Losses used to be GoTo’s weather — recurring, seasonal, assumed. Q2 changed the forecast: net profit rose to Rp350 billion, reversing a Rp297 billion loss a year earlier, and followed Q1’s Rp171 billion — the company’s first-ever profitable quarter.
Reuters credited the turnaround to “strong growth in its fintech business and continued cost discipline.” GoTo Financial’s own disclosures back that framing: adjusted EBITDA up 674% year-on-year, monthly transacting users up 33%, and a loan book that grew 59% to Rp9.9 trillion, driven largely by GoPay adoption and expanded lending.
Cost discipline explains why the profit held. It doesn’t explain why it arrived.
GoTo’s on-demand mobility and delivery businesses also posted gains — Core GTV up 65% year-on-year, net revenue up 26%, and annual transacting users at 69 million — even as Indonesia’s ride-hailing sector continued adjusting to regulatory changes affecting platform economics during the period.
Neither Reuters nor GoTo’s own materials attribute the profit to those regulatory shifts; both instead point to fintech expansion and operating leverage as the load-bearing story.
Sources: Reuters, GoTo Group
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