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UBER · Forward model · Dara case

The Dara case, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

Uber's disclosure carries this model further than most. Every quarter it publishes, per segment, Gross Bookings, revenue, and Segment Operating Income - plus a single Corporate G&A and Platform R&D line it explicitly does not attribute to any segment. So the volume driver, the take rate and the segment margin are all reported figures here, nothing is apportioned, and the corporate overhead percentage is Uber's own number rather than an assumption. Each vertical is built the way Uber itself frames the business: units are Gross Bookings in millions of dollars, and price per unit is revenue per $1M of bookings, which is Revenue Margin as the company defines it. Two cautions on the reported figures. Mobility's revenue margin fell from 29.90% to 25.40% between the December and March quarters because a business-model change moved several markets to net revenue recognition; the company says it cut total revenue growth by 8 percentage points with no effect on bookings or profit, so Uber's revenue is simply a smaller number than it used to be for the same business, and every EV/revenue multiple - including this model's exit multiple - is mechanically higher because of it. And what this model labels EBITDA is Segment Operating Income less the corporate line, which reproduces Uber's Non-GAAP Operating Income exactly ($2,143M in the June quarter), not its Adjusted EBITDA of $2,819M. Read the exit multiple against operating income, not against EBITDA. Autonomy is deliberately not a vertical. Uber discloses no AV revenue, and an autonomous trip that replaces a human one already sits inside Mobility's reported Gross Bookings, so a separate line would count the same trip twice. AV therefore appears only where it can honestly appear: in Mobility's margin glide, and in the scenarios. Uber's stated multi-year commitment of more than $10bn to autonomy is press-reported without a schedule and is booked nowhere here - about $4.80 a share at face value. Delivery Hero is not owned. It carries zero across every historical quarter and starts five quarters out, the second half of 2027 the company guided to, on the 50 markets and $42bn of 2025 bookings Uber actually acquires - not the 14 markets going to SSW Partners. Net cash is already reduced by the $13.7bn consideration, so switching that vertical off would leave the valuation paying for something it never bought; Delivery Hero's own debt is not disclosed and is not modelled. Share count is held flat although Uber is reducing it, which understates every case. Read the fair value the other way round. At an exit of 3.5x terminal revenue - itself a mild de-rate on operating income against today - the base case is $137.73. The 20 August price of $78.55 requires 1.87x. The published sell-side target zone of roughly $101-113 requires 2.49x to 2.82x. Every one of those, the market price included, needs the multiple to compress from where it is now. The disagreement about Uber is not about growth; on these drivers the 2027 revenue line lands on consensus. It is entirely about what the multiple should be in 2031.

UBER forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $212.04 +180% against $75.76
Terminal-year revenue $158.32B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $460.17B $69.16B explicit + $391.01B terminal

What the company's own stated end-state requires: 99 markets, $236bn of pro-forma bookings, the largest AV platform, and Delivery Hero high-single-digit accretive by year three. Terminal revenue of $158bn, 23.1% non-GAAP operating margin, exit at 3.8x. It reaches $212.04. Three things it does NOT reach or account for. First, autonomy earns nothing extra here that is not already in Mobility's margin glide - Uber discloses no AV revenue, so no line can carry it. Second, the stated multi-year autonomy commitment of more than $10bn is booked nowhere; at face value that is about $4.80 a share of spending the model never charges. Third, the share count is held flat although Uber is buying back stock, which understates every case including this one.

UBER REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $42.55B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $10.13B
2024Q2 $10.70B
2024Q3 $11.19B
2024Q4 $11.96B
2025Q1 $11.53B
2025Q2 $12.65B
2025Q3 $13.47B
2025Q4 $14.37B
2026Q1 $13.20B
2026Q2 $14.19B
2026Q3E $14.90B
2026Q4E $15.64B
2027Q1E $16.41B
2027Q2E $17.22B
2027Q3E $18.07B
2027Q4E $21.34B
2028Q1E $22.43B
2028Q2E $23.56B
2028Q3E $24.76B
2028Q4E $26.01B
2029Q1E $27.32B
2029Q2E $28.70B
2029Q3E $30.15B
2029Q4E $31.67B
2030Q1E $33.27B
2030Q2E $34.95B
2030Q3E $36.71B
2030Q4E $38.56B
2031Q1E $40.50B
2031Q2E $42.55B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Dara case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Dara column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$69.16B
Terminal-year revenue$158.32B
Terminal-year EBITDA$36.64B
Exit multiple, on revenue3.8x
Terminal value$601.61B
Discounted at 9.0% a year, terminal value becomes$391.01B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal85%
Enterprise value$460.17B
Net cash-$21.03B
Equity value$439.14B
Shares2.07B
Fair value per share$212.04
Against the deployed price of $75.76, as of +180%

Uber trades near 3.1x EV/revenue at the 20 August close, and 3.5x is that slightly re-rated. Read it with care: the 2026 business-model change moved several markets to net revenue recognition, so Uber's revenue is a smaller number than it used to be for the same bookings - which mechanically raises every EV/revenue multiple, including this one.

Read the other way round: at $75.76 the market is paying 1.1x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

Quarter MobilityDeliveryFreightDelivery Hero Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $7.73B$5.54B$1.62B$0 $14.90B +11% $2.97B $191M $2.23B +26 $2.18B
2026 Q4E $8.12B$5.86B$1.66B$0 $15.64B +9% $3.18B $205M $2.38B +24 $2.28B
2027 Q1E $8.52B$6.18B$1.71B$0 $16.41B +24% $3.39B $218M $2.54B +40 $2.38B
2027 Q2E $8.94B$6.53B$1.75B$0 $17.22B +21% $3.61B $232M $2.70B +37 $2.48B
2027 Q3E $9.38B$6.89B$1.79B$0 $18.07B +21% $3.84B $247M $2.88B +37 $2.58B
2027 Q4E $9.84B$7.27B$1.84B$2.39B $21.34B +37% $4.40B $304M $3.28B +52 $2.88B
2028 Q1E $10.32B$7.68B$1.88B$2.55B $22.43B +37% $4.69B $322M $3.50B +52 $3.01B
2028 Q2E $10.82B$8.10B$1.93B$2.71B $23.56B +37% $4.99B $340M $3.72B +53 $3.13B
2028 Q3E $11.35B$8.54B$1.98B$2.88B $24.76B +37% $5.31B $359M $3.96B +53 $3.26B
2028 Q4E $11.90B$9.01B$2.03B$3.07B $26.01B +22% $5.64B $379M $4.21B +38 $3.39B
2029 Q1E $12.48B$9.51B$2.08B$3.26B $27.32B +22% $5.98B $400M $4.47B +38 $3.52B
2029 Q2E $13.08B$10.02B$2.13B$3.47B $28.70B +22% $6.34B $422M $4.74B +38 $3.66B
2029 Q3E $13.71B$10.57B$2.19B$3.68B $30.15B +22% $6.72B $444M $5.02B +38 $3.79B
2029 Q4E $14.37B$11.14B$2.24B$3.92B $31.67B +22% $7.12B $468M $5.32B +39 $3.93B
2030 Q1E $15.06B$11.75B$2.30B$4.16B $33.27B +22% $7.53B $493M $5.63B +39 $4.08B
2030 Q2E $15.78B$12.39B$2.36B$4.42B $34.95B +22% $7.96B $519M $5.96B +39 $4.22B
2030 Q3E $16.54B$13.06B$2.41B$4.69B $36.71B +22% $8.42B $546M $6.30B +39 $4.37B
2030 Q4E $17.33B$13.76B$2.48B$4.99B $38.56B +22% $8.90B $575M $6.66B +39 $4.52B
2031 Q1E $18.16B$14.51B$2.54B$5.29B $40.50B +22% $9.40B $604M $7.04B +39 $4.67B
2031 Q2E $19.03B$15.29B$2.60B$5.62B $42.55B +22% $9.92B $636M $7.43B +39 $4.83B

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-08-21 $137.73 First publication. Three disclosed segments driven by Gross Bookings times Uber's own revenue margin, plus Delivery Hero as a delayed line. Autonomy is modelled inside Mobility rather than as a vertical.