Uber Technologies on Wednesday beat anticipated working earnings and forecast a powerful second quarter, saying it had no want to supply additional incentives to spice up its driver supply, in contrast to its smaller rival Lyft.
The experience hail large reported outcomes Wednesday morning after Lyft shares sank 26% on Tuesday when it mentioned it wanted to pay extra to get drivers, dragging down Uber’s inventory in its wake. Uber not too long ago traded down 11% to $26.12.
Uber reported a dip in month-to-month energetic customers within the first three months of the yr from the earlier quarter, a typical pattern within the trade throughout the colder winter months, however was eager to set itself aside from its smaller competitor.
“Our driver base is at a post-pandemic excessive and is extra engaged on Uber than on different platforms. Importantly, we count on this pattern to proceed with out vital incremental incentive investments,” Uber Chief Government Dara Khosrowshahi mentioned in ready remarks.
Uber reported first-quarter adjusted EBITDA, which excludes stock-based compensation and different bills, of $168 million. That surpassed the common analyst expectation of $132 million, in accordance with IBES information from Refinitiv.

Uber’s second-quarter adjusted EBITDA forecast of between $240 million and $270 million additionally topped the common analyst expectation for $237 million.
At $6.9 billion, whole first-quarter income rose 136% and exceeded estimates for $6.13 billion.
Uber additionally mentioned it anticipated to generate “significant optimistic money flows” for the total yr, which might mark the primary time it achieved this objective within the firm’s 13-year historical past.
Nonetheless, on a internet foundation, Uber’s first-quarter loss surged to $5.9 billion from $108 million a yr in the past, pushed by $5.6 billion in drops within the worth of stakes in different, poorly performing corporations, primarily Chinese language ride-hail firm Didi International.
Uber Chief Monetary Officer Nelson Chai in a press release mentioned Uber had the liquidity to sit down on the loss-making positions and watch for a greater time to promote them.
Uber’s ride-hail enterprise seems on monitor to high pre-pandemic ranges within the second quarter, with April mobility bookings exceeding 2019 ranges in all world markets.
The return of riders didn’t come on the expense of Uber Eats customers, who continued ordering meals deliveries from eating places.
However month-to-month energetic platform shoppers, a metric that features each ride-hail and meals supply customers, dropped from 118 million within the fourth quarter to 115 million within the three months ending March 31.