Menu Close

Uber’s Ride Business Tanks as Food Delivery Booms

This is a syndicated repost published with the permission of Statista | Infographics. To view original, click here. Opinions herein are not those of the Wall Street Examiner or Lee Adler. Reposting does not imply endorsement. The information presented is for educational or entertainment purposes and is not individual investment advice.

Uber reported its results for the second quarter on Thursday, beating revenue expectations but also revealing another massive loss. The report also revealed an interesting shift in Uber’s business during a time of massively restricted mobility due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s food delivery segment surpassed its core ride-hailing business for the first time, as the latter saw gross bookings plummet by 75 percent and the former more than doubled in size.

“We are fortunate to have both a global footprint and such a natural hedge across our two core segments: as some people stay closer to home, more people are ordering from Uber Eats than ever before,” Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive, said in the company’s earnings press release.

With gross bookings of $10.2 billion for the quarter ended June 30, Uber’s revenue amounted to $2.2 billion. Meanwhile net losses amounted to $1.8 billion, including $131 million in stock-based compensation expense and $382 million in restructuring and related charges.

This chart shows Uber’s gross bookings for the second quarter of 2020, by segment.

Uber gross booking

RSS
Follow by Email
LinkedIn
Share

Discover more from The Wall Street Examiner

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading