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The Dara case, 20 quarters out

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.

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

What drives each segment

Mobility

Units × price
Basis quarter$7.36B
Final quarter$19.03B
Implied CAGR+21%
Share of revenue, final quarter45%
PV of segment cash flow$68.31B

Rides. Revenue is Gross Bookings times the revenue margin Uber itself defines and publishes, and both halves are disclosed every quarter. Autonomy lives here rather than in a line of its own, because an AV trip is a Mobility trip on a different cost base.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $7.68B Reported
2025 Q4 $8.20B Reported
2026 Q1 $6.80B Reported
2026 Q2 $7.36B Reported
RidesFinancial partnerships productsAdvertising
Units 28988/qtr growing +3.2% per quarter Mobility Gross Bookings, $28,988M in the June quarter. Units here are millions of dollars of bookings.
Price per unit $253999 drifting +0.2% per quarter Revenue per $1M of bookings: a 25.40% revenue margin, which is Uber's own defined measure.
Mobility

Latest: $19.03B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $5.63B
2024Q2 $6.13B
2024Q3 $6.41B
2024Q4 $6.91B
2025Q1 $6.50B
2025Q2 $7.29B
2025Q3 $7.68B
2025Q4 $8.20B
2026Q1 $6.80B
2026Q2 $7.36B
2026Q3E $7.73B
2026Q4E $8.12B
2027Q1E $8.52B
2027Q2E $8.94B
2027Q3E $9.38B
2027Q4E $9.84B
2028Q1E $10.32B
2028Q2E $10.82B
2028Q3E $11.35B
2028Q4E $11.90B
2029Q1E $12.48B
2029Q2E $13.08B
2029Q3E $13.71B
2029Q4E $14.37B
2030Q1E $15.06B
2030Q2E $15.78B
2030Q3E $16.54B
2030Q4E $17.33B
2031Q1E $18.16B
2031Q2E $19.03B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The June 2026 revenue margin of 25.40% is not comparable to the 29.90% a year earlier: a business-model change moved several markets to net revenue recognition, which the company says cut total revenue growth by 8 percentage points with no effect on bookings or profit.
  • Autonomy is deliberately not a separate vertical. Uber discloses no AV revenue, and an autonomous trip that replaces a human one already sits inside these Gross Bookings - a separate line would count the same trip twice.
  • Uber's stated multi-year autonomy commitment of more than $10 billion across equity, fleet offtake and infrastructure is press-reported rather than disclosed on a schedule, so this model books no separate programme for it. At $10bn it is about $4.80 a share if it returned nothing.

Delivery

Units × price
Basis quarter$5.25B
Final quarter$15.29B
Implied CAGR+24%
Share of revenue, final quarter36%
PV of segment cash flow$40.03B

Food, grocery, alcohol, convenience and retail delivery, plus the advertising sold against it. Same equation as Mobility, and the revenue margin has risen almost every quarter as advertising and Uber One have grown into it.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $4.48B Reported
2025 Q4 $4.89B Reported
2026 Q1 $5.07B Reported
2026 Q2 $5.25B Reported
Restaurant deliveryGrocery & RetailAdvertising
Units 27463/qtr growing +3.8% per quarter Delivery Gross Bookings, $27,463M in the June quarter, in millions of dollars.
Price per unit $190983 drifting +0.3% per quarter Revenue per $1M of bookings: a 19.10% revenue margin, up from 18.16% two years ago.
Delivery

Latest: $15.29B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $3.21B
2024Q2 $3.29B
2024Q3 $3.47B
2024Q4 $3.77B
2025Q1 $3.78B
2025Q2 $4.10B
2025Q3 $4.48B
2025Q4 $4.89B
2026Q1 $5.07B
2026Q2 $5.25B
2026Q3E $5.54B
2026Q4E $5.86B
2027Q1E $6.18B
2027Q2E $6.53B
2027Q3E $6.89B
2027Q4E $7.27B
2028Q1E $7.68B
2028Q2E $8.10B
2028Q3E $8.54B
2028Q4E $9.01B
2029Q1E $9.51B
2029Q2E $10.02B
2029Q3E $10.57B
2029Q4E $11.14B
2030Q1E $11.75B
2030Q2E $12.39B
2030Q3E $13.06B
2030Q4E $13.76B
2031Q1E $14.51B
2031Q2E $15.29B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The Delivery revenue margin has climbed from 18.16% to 19.10% over the ten reported quarters, which is the advertising and Uber One story showing up in a disclosed number rather than in a narrative.
  • Uber does not publish Delivery order counts or Delivery-only trips - Trips and Monthly Active Platform Consumers are consolidated across both segments - so Gross Bookings is the only per-segment volume that exists.
  • Grocery and Retail is reported inside Delivery and is not sized separately, so the model cannot show the mix shift the company talks about.

Freight

Units × price
Basis quarter$1.58B
Final quarter$2.60B
Implied CAGR+10%
Share of revenue, final quarter6%
PV of segment cash flow$1.32B

Brokerage that connects carriers with shippers, reported gross so revenue is almost exactly bookings. It has been roughly flat for three years and has never made money at the segment line.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $1.31B Reported
2025 Q4 $1.27B Reported
2026 Q1 $1.34B Reported
2026 Q2 $1.58B Reported
Freight brokerageTransportation management
Units 1571/qtr growing +1.0% per quarter Freight Gross Bookings, $1,571M in the June quarter, in millions of dollars.
Price per unit $1M drifting +0.0% per quarter Just over $1M of revenue per $1M of bookings: Freight is reported on a gross basis.
Freight

Latest: $2.60B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $1.28B
2024Q2 $1.27B
2024Q3 $1.31B
2024Q4 $1.27B
2025Q1 $1.26B
2025Q2 $1.26B
2025Q3 $1.31B
2025Q4 $1.27B
2026Q1 $1.34B
2026Q2 $1.58B
2026Q3E $1.62B
2026Q4E $1.66B
2027Q1E $1.71B
2027Q2E $1.75B
2027Q3E $1.79B
2027Q4E $1.84B
2028Q1E $1.88B
2028Q2E $1.93B
2028Q3E $1.98B
2028Q4E $2.03B
2029Q1E $2.08B
2029Q2E $2.13B
2029Q3E $2.19B
2029Q4E $2.24B
2030Q1E $2.30B
2030Q2E $2.36B
2030Q3E $2.41B
2030Q4E $2.48B
2031Q1E $2.54B
2031Q2E $2.60B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Freight is about 3% of revenue and has produced a segment operating loss in every reported quarter, so it moves the fair value very little in any direction.
  • It is kept as its own vertical rather than folded away because Uber reports it as one of three segments, and removing it would break the reconciliation to consolidated revenue.
  • The 25% year-on-year bookings growth in the June quarter comes off a multi-year freight recession rather than from share gains, so it is not extrapolated.

Delivery Hero

Units × price
Basis quarter$0
Final quarter$5.62B
Share of revenue, final quarter13%
PV of segment cash flow$9.64B

The pending all-cash takeover of Delivery Hero. Uber acquires 50 markets carrying $42bn of 2025 Gross Merchandise Value; a further 14 overlapping markets go to SSW Partners and are not acquired. It nearly doubles the markets where Uber runs both mobility and delivery.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $0 Reported
2025 Q4 $0 Reported
2026 Q1 $0 Reported
2026 Q2 $0 Reported
Local food deliveryQuick commerceAdvertising
Units 10500/qtr growing +2.5% per quarter $42bn of 2025 bookings in the 50 markets Uber acquires, per quarter. Excludes the 14 sold to SSW.
Price per unit $180000 drifting +0.4% per quarter An 18.0% take rate, just under Uber's own 19.1%. No rate is disclosed for the acquired markets.
Delivery Hero

Latest: $5.62B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $0.00
2024Q2 $0.00
2024Q3 $0.00
2024Q4 $0.00
2025Q1 $0.00
2025Q2 $0.00
2025Q3 $0.00
2025Q4 $0.00
2026Q1 $0.00
2026Q2 $0.00
2026Q3E $0.00
2026Q4E $0.00
2027Q1E $0.00
2027Q2E $0.00
2027Q3E $0.00
2027Q4E $2.39B
2028Q1E $2.55B
2028Q2E $2.71B
2028Q3E $2.88B
2028Q4E $3.07B
2029Q1E $3.26B
2029Q2E $3.47B
2029Q3E $3.68B
2029Q4E $3.92B
2030Q1E $4.16B
2030Q2E $4.42B
2030Q3E $4.69B
2030Q4E $4.99B
2031Q1E $5.29B
2031Q2E $5.62B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Delivery Hero is not owned. The line carries zero across every historical quarter and starts five quarters out, the second half of 2027 the company guided to.
  • The 14 markets going to SSW Partners for about $1.6bn - $11bn of 2025 bookings - are excluded from this line, which is why it starts from $42bn rather than the $53bn Delivery Hero runs today.
  • Net cash in this model is already reduced by the $13.7bn consideration, so switching this vertical off would leave the valuation paying for something it never bought.
  • Delivery Hero's own debt is not disclosed in Uber's announcement and is not modelled here; net cash therefore understates what the combined balance sheet would carry.
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
Enterprise value$460.17B
Net cash-$21.03B
Equity value$439.14B
Diluted shares2.07B
Fair value per share$212.04
Against the current price of $78.55+170%

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 $78.55 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.

DateChangedFair value thenNote
2026-08-21 all $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.