Ride sharing service Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Lyft missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.69 billion, up 10.7% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates. It reported 28.7 million users, up 17.6% year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Lyft’s revenue to grow 13% year on year to $1.75 billion, slowing from the 26.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.32 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Lyft has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Lyft’s peers in the consumer internet segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Uber delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.1%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Electronic Arts reported revenues up 61.8%, topping estimates by 29.4%. Uber traded down 3.5% following the results while Electronic Arts was also down 2.3%.
Read our full analysis of Uber’s results here and Electronic Arts’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. Investors in consumer internet stocks have been spared in this environment as share prices are down 16% on average over the last month. Lyft is down 16.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $24.13 (compared to the current share price of $16.49).
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