Lyft
LYFT Nasdaq· Passenger Ground Transportation
Last close · Oct 27, 2026
$16.79
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Lyft had $6.3B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 9.2% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +21.7% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was −3.0%, down 0.9 pts: of every 100 in sales, about −3 is left after running the business.
- Lyft made $2.8B of net profit in fiscal 2025.
- Lyft returned $500M to shareholders in fiscal 2025. The diluted share count rose 1.0%.
- Lyft has $709M more cash than debt.
Market cap
$6.5B
P/E
2.4x
Revenue
$6.3B
Net income
$2.8B
Free cash flow
—
Operating margin
−3.0%
Lyft in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+9.2%
Yes. Sales grew 9.2% last year.
Does it make a profit?
45.0%
Yes. It keeps 45.0% of every sale as profit.
How healthy are the accounts?
4 / 9
Mixed. It passes 4 of 9 health tests.
How is the share priced?
2.4x
One share costs 2.4 times its yearly profit per share. Typical for its sector: 26.0x.
What Lyft does
Lyft runs a mobile app that connects riders with drivers for on-demand rides. Besides regular rideshare, the app offers taxis, private hire vehicles, executive chauffeur services, car sharing, and shared bikes and scooters. Drivers are independent people who choose when to drive, and riders use the app for commutes, errands and nights out. Substantially all of its revenue comes from its ridesharing marketplace, where it collects service fees and commissions from drivers. It also earns money from licensing and data access agreements, bike and scooter rentals, selling bikes and bike station equipment, advertising, renting cars to drivers through its Express Drive program, and selling its service to businesses. Lyft names Uber as its main ridesharing competitor, and Bolt as another rival in taxi and private hire apps. In 2025 Lyft expanded beyond North America by buying Freenow, a European taxi app, and TBR Global Chauffeuring, a luxury chauffeur company.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- Competition from larger rivals, including Uber, and from companies building self-driving cars.
- Failing to attract and keep drivers and riders at a reasonable cost.
- Insurance losses larger than the amounts it has set aside, and reliance on a few insurance claims providers.
- Relying on partners to bring self-driving vehicles to its platform, and the industry may not develop as hoped.
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Feb 11, 2026
- Legal name
- Lyft, Inc.
- CIK
- 0001759509
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $3.2B | $4.1B | $4.4B | $5.8B | $6.3B |
| Revenue growth | 35.7% | 27.6% | 7.5% | 31.4% | 9.2% |
| Gross margin | 46.9% | 40.5% | 42.2% | 42.3% | 41.5% |
| Operating margin | −35.4% | −35.6% | −10.8% | −2.1% | −3.0% |
| Net income | −$1.1B | −$1.6B | −$340M | $22.8M | $2.8B |
| Net margin | −33.1% | −38.7% | −7.7% | 0.4% | 45.0% |
| Diluted EPS | −$3.17 | −$4.47 | −$0.88 | $0.06 | $6.81 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | −$102M | −$237M | −$98.2M | $850M | $1.2B |
| Dividends paid | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M |
| Share buybacks | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $50.0M | $500M |
| Share count change | 7.2% | 6.0% | 8.6% | 7.4% | 1.0% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $2.3B | $1.8B | $1.7B | $2.0B | $1.8B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $739M | $875M | $952M | $1.1B | $1.1B |
| Shareholders' equity | $1.3B | $389M | $542M | $767M | $3.3B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | — | — | — | −30.2x | — |
| Current ratio | 1.1x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.7x |
| Interest coverage | −22.0x | −73.9x | −18.1x | −4.1x | −9.1x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | — | — | — | — | −12.3% |
| Return on equity | −70.4% | −183.2% | −73.2% | 3.5% | 140.8% |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Altman Z'' | −6.5 | −10.0 | −8.5 | −7.3 | −3.4 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.2M
1 insider
Insiders sold, 12 months
$7.4M
7 insiders
Of sales under plans
100%
$7.4M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyft LYFT | $6.5B | 9.2% | −3.0% | — | −12.3% | 2.4x | 4 |
| Avis Budget Group CAR | $3.6B | −1.2% | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Grab GRAB | $11.4B | 20.5% | 1.9% | −0.5% | 0.9% | — | 5 |
| Uber UBER | $134.9B | 18.3% | 10.7% | 18.8% | 19.7% | 14.4x | 6 |
| UFP Industries UFPI | $4.3B | −5.0% | 5.8% | 4.4% | 11.8% | 18.3x | 5 |
Price compared with profit (P/E)
How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.
KIRA
At $16.79 a share, the company is worth $6.5B: 2.4 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Lyft grew sales faster than 2 of its 4 similar companies. Its P/E is higher than 0 of 2.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001759509). Data updated October 11, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.