Uber shares jump on ride, delivery growth

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Shares of Uber are higher on Tuesday after the ride-sharing company reported growth in gross customer bookings and deliveries in the first quarter of 2023.

Since Jan. 1, Uber’s stock value is up roughly 41% after gaining around 19% the last year.

Signage outside the Uber Technologies headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Uber Technologies Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 9. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said during an earnings call that with first-quarter gross bookings for trips up 40% and delivery up 8% compared with the same period last year, the company is off to a strong start in 2023.

Meanwhile, trip growth and rider engagement reached a post-pandemic high, and both the U.S. and Canada are now outpacing growth in other markets, Khosrowshahi added.Gross bookings ballooned 19% on an annual basis to $31.4 billion for the first quarter, while gross deliveries rose 8% over the same period to $15 billion.Meanwhile, trips during the quarter grew 24% year over year, reaching 2.1 billion, or approximately 24 million trips per day on average.

Uber also suffered a net loss of $157 million, or 8 cents a share, over the first quarter, compared with a loss of $5.9 billion, or $3.04 a share, one year ago.

 

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