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Q2 2026
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Q2 2026
Lyft's Gross Bookings Grew Twice as Fast as Its Rides Again - What's Actually Driving the Gap?
Aug 15
Q1 2026
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Q1 2026
Lyft Finished Its $750 Million Buyback Program and Immediately Authorized a New $1 Billion One
May 06
Q4 2025
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Q4 2025
A $2.9 Billion Tax Benefit Pushed Lyft's Full-Year Net Income to $2.84 Billion - Even as Its GAAP Operating Loss Widened
Feb 11
Q3 2025
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Q3 2025
Lyft's Founders Voluntarily Converted Their Last Class B Shares to Class A, Ending Its Dual-Class Structure
Nov 05
Q2 2025
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Q2 2025
Lyft Posted a Second Positive Quarter of GAAP Operating Income, and Doubled Its Buyback Authorization to $750 Million
Aug 06
Q1 2025
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Q1 2025
Lyft Posted Its First-Ever Profitable First Quarter, and Bought Back $50 Million of Stock Under Its New Program
May 08
Q4 2024
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Q4 2024
Lyft Closed 2024 With Its First Full Year of GAAP Net Income - $22.8 Million - and a New $500 Million Buyback Authorization
Feb 12
Q3 2024
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Q3 2024
Lyft Slipped Back to a Net Loss One Quarter After Its First-Ever Profit, Even as Operating Cash Flow Hit a New High
Nov 06
Q2 2024
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Q2 2024
Lyft Reported Its First-Ever Quarterly GAAP Profit - $5.0 Million Net Income - as the Stock Fell 27% Anyway
Aug 07
Q1 2024
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Q1 2024
Lyft Turned $156 Million of Cash In From Operations in a Single Quarter - a Complete Reversal From a Year Ago
Jun 10
Q4 2023
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Q4 2023
Lyft Posted Its First Positive Quarterly Free Cash Flow While the Stock Rallied 63% in a Single Quarter
Feb 25
Q3 2023
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Q3 2023
Lyft's Net Loss Shrank to $12 Million as Revenue Crossed $1.15 Billion - and Active Riders Just Became the Headline Metric, Not a Discontinued One
Nov 17
Q2 2023
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Q2 2023
Lyft's Adjusted EBITDA Definition Rewrote Its Own Q2 2022 History, Turning a $79 Million Profit Into a $196 Million Loss
Aug 19
Q1 2023
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Q1 2023
California's Court of Appeal Upheld Proposition 22 as Constitutional - Resolving Lyft's Longest-Running Legal Overhang, Just Not Quite Yet
May 04
Q4 2022
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Q4 2022
Lyft Strengthened Insurance Reserves by $375 Million in Q4 2022, Redefined Adjusted EBITDA to Include Such Charges, and Swung to a Full-Year Adjusted EBITDA Loss
Feb 14
Q3 2022
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Q3 2022
A $135.7 Million Impairment Drove Lyft's Net Loss to $422 Million - Its Largest Ever - While Adjusted EBITDA Fell Sequentially for the First Time
Nov 07
Q2 2022
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Q2 2022
Lyft Grew Adjusted EBITDA 44% Sequentially While the Stock Fell 65% - the Widest Gap Yet Between Operating Results and Valuation
Aug 04
Q1 2022
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Q1 2022
Lyft's Fourth Straight Profitable-Adjusted-EBITDA Quarter Came With Its Widest Operating Cash Outflow Since the Pandemic
May 15
Q4 2021
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Q4 2021
Lyft Closed 2021 With Its First Full Year of Positive Adjusted EBITDA - While an Alameda Court Ruled Proposition 22 Unenforceable
Mar 01
Q3 2021
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Q3 2021
Lyft Turned Cash Flow Positive for the First Time - Helped by a $119 Million Gain From Finally Closing the Toyota Deal
Nov 15
Q2 2021
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Q2 2021
Lyft Posted Its First-Ever Positive Adjusted EBITDA Quarter - Then Closed the $550 Million Toyota Deal Two Weeks Later
Aug 15
Q1 2021
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Q1 2021
Lyft Just Sold Its Self-Driving Unit to Toyota for $550 Million - Weeks After Reporting Its Smallest Quarterly Revenue Since 2017
Jul 15
Q4 2020
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Q4 2020
Lyft's Stock Nearly Doubled in a Quarter on a Ballot Measure - While Full-Year Revenue Fell 35% and the Adjusted EBITDA Loss Widened
Apr 20
Q3 2020
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Q3 2020
Lyft's Riders Came Back 44% in a Quarter - So Why Did the Adjusted EBITDA Loss Get Worse?
Dec 15
Q2 2020
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Q2 2020
Did COVID-19 Just Break Lyft's Margin Streak? Revenue Fell 61% and Contribution Margin Gave Back Five Quarters of Gains
Sep 15
Q1 2020
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Q1 2020
Lyft's Margins Kept Improving Through COVID's First Two Weeks - Then Active Riders Fell for the First Time Ever
May 10
Q4 2019
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Q4 2019
Lyft Closed Its First Full Year Public With Contribution Margin Above 50% - So Why Did Two Fresh Lawsuits Barely Move the Stock?
Mar 01
Q3 2019
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Q3 2019
Lyft's Adjusted EBITDA Loss Shrank By Half - But an $86 Million Insurance Surprise Tells a Different Story
Dec 03
Q2 2019
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Q2 2019
The IPO Charge Was One-Time. The New $300M-a-Quarter Bill Isn't.
Aug 19
Q1 2019
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Q1 2019
A Billion-Dollar Debut Loss That's Mostly a Bill for Going Public
May 17
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