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Business News for May 4, 2022

By Patricia A. Eldridge 1 year ago
Picking up passengers at Kennedy International Airport in New York. In the pandemic, Uber’s financial results have been an indicator of broader economic health and appetite for travel.Credit…Gabby Jones for The New York Times
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Uber on Wednesday reported strong growth in its ride-hailing and delivery businesses and said it was continuing to bounce back from a pandemic slump, even as it lost $5.6 billion because of its investments in other ride-sharing companies, primarily the Chinese service Didi.

The company reported $6.9 billion in revenue for the first three months of 2022, outstripping analysts’ expectations and skyrocketing 136 percent from the same time last year, when Covid-19 vaccines were scarce and people were not traveling as much. Uber also said it had logged 1.7 billion trips during the quarter, an 18 percent increase from a year earlier, and had 115 million people using its platform each month, a 17 percent increase.

Throughout the pandemic, Uber’s financial results have been an indicator of broader economic health and appetite for travel, with the company’s weaker quarters corresponding to spikes in coronavirus cases and increased lockdowns, and with stronger results generally indicating periods of greater normalcy.

Now, “as people have returned to offices, restaurants, pubs, stadiums and airports around the world, they’ve returned to Uber,” Dara Khosrowshahi, the company’s chief executive, said in prepared remarks to investors. He added that the company’s results “make clear that we are emerging on a strong path out of the pandemic.”

Still, Uber’s investments in other ride-sharing businesses around the world continue to hamper its bottom line. Of its nearly $6 billion in losses, $5.6 billion came from changes in the valuation of other companies in which it has a stake. Didi’s value has plummeted since it went public last year.

Revenue from Uber’s ride-hailing business surged nearly 200 percent from a year earlier — despite a slowdown at the beginning of the quarter because of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus — and Uber’s food-delivery business grew 12 percent even though people have largely returned to restaurants and grocery stores.

Though Uber’s business continues to lose money, it said it was drawing closer to profitability. Excluding certain expenses like stock compensation and the Didi losses, Uber had another profitable quarter, and its free cash flow approached a break-even point.

Drivers for Uber and Lyft at a gas station in New York in March demanding rate surcharges to help offset the rising cost of keeping cars on the road.Credit…Brittainy Newman/Associated Press

Drivers, who power Uber’s business — as well as the business of other gig economy companies like Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart — have said high gas prices in recent months, stemming in part from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, have made it more difficult to make a living driving for Uber. Some have said they are cutting back their hours or quitting the platform. And the value of Uber’s stock, similar to other gig economy companies, has fallen more than 30 percent since the beginning of the year.

Uber, which had already been spending heavily to lure back drivers who left early in the pandemic, responded in March by charging riders a small fuel fee for each trip, which went to drivers. It said on Wednesday that it had more drivers on its platform than at any time since the pandemic began.

That confidence — and its rosy outlook for the next quarter — differed starkly from its rival Lyft, which reported financial results on Tuesday. Lyft’s stock plunged 25 percent in after-hours trading after its executives said on an earnings call that they were still struggling to persuade drivers to return to the platform and would be spending more money to encourage them to do so.

Uber’s shares fell along with Lyft’s, and Uber said shortly after that it would release its financial results hours earlier than initially planned on Wednesday, seemingly in an attempt to differentiate its results from Lyft’s and pre-empt a drop in its stock when the market opened later that morning. But Uber’s stock still fell more than 4 percent during normal trading hours.

On a call with investors on Wednesday, Mr. Khosrowshahi acknowledged that Uber also needed to continue to increase the number of drivers on its platform. But he painted an optimistic picture of the company’s business by pointing to areas of potential growth, like Uber’s partnerships with taxi companies and its investments in the freight industry.

“There’s a lot of work to do ahead of us, but this is a machine that’s rolling,” he said of the supply of drivers, adding that Uber was “starting to show separation against our competitors.”

Though Lyft said the number of active drivers in the first three months of the year had grown 40 percent from a year earlier, Logan Green, the company’s chief executive, also said drivers had “signed off” during Omicron and had yet to return in the numbers needed to meet rebounding demand.

Lyft reported better-than-expected revenue, $876 million, a 44 percent increase from the first quarter of 2021, and $197 million in net loss, a 54 percent decrease. The company had 17.8 million active riders, up from 13.5 million at the beginning of last year but down from the nearly 19 million it reported toward the end of 2021.

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