Company data sheet · Uber
Uber: four lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Business Services
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- UBER (NYSE)
- Sources
- SEC filings (2012–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to four straight losses. Uber earned $1 billion in 2018–2018. Then it lost money every year from 2019 to 2022: $24.9 billion in all. 2023 was its first profit in five years: $1.9 billion.
- It outgrew its own economy many times over. Revenue rose from $7.9 billion in 2017 to $52 billion in 2025: 6.6 times as much. The US economy, counted the same way in money terms, grew about 53%. Whatever drove it, the economy around it does not account for growth of that size.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2019, a year the US economy grew 2.6%. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Eleven decisions on record. Stratrix has verified eleven of Uber's big decisions, each with what happened next. The hardest year after: "Uber's Zero-Cash Self-Driving Handoff Was a Controlled Exit From Three Liabilities", with its shares 18 points behind the S&P 500 over the next three years.
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $7.9 billion | −$4 billion | |
| 2018 | $10.4 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2019 | $13 billion | −$8.5 billion | |
| 2020 | $11.1 billion | −$6.8 billion | |
| 2021 | $17.5 billion | −$0.5 billion | |
| 2022 | $31.9 billion | −$9.1 billion | |
| 2023 | $37.3 billion | $1.9 billion | |
| 2024 | $44 billion | $9.9 billion | |
| 2025 | $52 billion | $10.1 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
Stratrix Decision Cases
- 2020Uber's Zero-Cash Self-Driving Handoff Was a Controlled Exit From Three Liabilities
- 2020Uber Eats Was a Lunch Experiment That Got Lucky. Then It Had to Grow Up.
- 2020Uber Eats Was a Shock Absorber: Mobility Still Out-Earned Delivery $6.1B to $3.9B in 2020
- 2019Uber Rewrote California Law for $59.5M, Then Lost Unanimously at the UK Supreme Court
- 2018Uber Ended the Waymo Trial on Day Five With Stock, Not Cash — 0.34% of the Company
- 2018Uber's Flywheel Spins Beautifully. It Just Doesn't Travel.
- 2017Uber Called Its 2017 CEO Vote 'Unanimous.' Two Front-Runners Had Just Destroyed Each Other.
- 2016Uber Swapped Its $2 Billion China Cash Bonfire for a Stake That Grew to Nearly $8 Billion
- 2016Uber's security chief got probation for hiding the 2016 breach, and the CEO the judge called just as culpable walked
- 2014Why Uber Gets Expensive at the Worst Possible Moment
- 2010Uber's First Product Was Legal All Along — California Already Exempted Black Cars
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 41 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (24 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 74 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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