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Uber Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:UBER) reported third-quarter financial results on Tuesday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below. UBER is feeling the pressure from bearish momentum. Track the latest developments here. This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga APIs. For real-time access to our entire catalog, please visithttps://www.benzinga.com/apis/for a consultation. Operator Hello and welcome to the Uber third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the Speaker’s remarks, there will be a question and answer session and if you would like to ask a question during this time, please press star1 on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the conference over to Balaji Krashnamurthy, Vice President, Strategic Finance, Investor Relations. You may begin. Balaji Krishnamurthy (Vice President, Strategic Finance, Investor Relations) Thank you Sara thank you everyone for joining us today and welcome to Uber’s third quarter 2025 earnings presentation. On the call today we have Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and CFO Prashant Mahendra Raja. During today’s call we will present both GAAP and non GAAP financial measures and additional disclosures regarding these non GAAP measures, including a reconciliation of GAAP to non GAAP measures, are included in the press release supplemental slides and our filings with the SEC, each of which is posted to investor.uber.com certain statements in this presentation and on this call are forward looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward looking statements. Actual results may vary, may differ materially from these forward looking statements and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward looking statements we make today except as required by law. For more information about factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from forward looking statements, please refer to the press release we issued today, as well as risks and uncertainties described in our most recent Form 10K and in other filings made with the SEC. We published our quarterly earnings press release, prepared remarks and supplemental slides to our investor relations website earlier today and we ask you to review those documents if you haven’t already. We will open the call to questions following brief opening remarks from Dharam. With that, let me hand it over to dharam. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Thanks Balaji. Q3 was an outstanding quarter for Uber, driven by a powerful combination of innovation and execution. Trips grew 22%, marking our fastest growth since 2023. Both lines of business accelerated with mobility trips growing 21%, significantly exceeding our expectations. This top line strength was fueled by record audience and engagement of 17% and 4% respectively. Gross bookings grew 21% while average pricing remained relatively flat. This translated into record adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow, reinforcing our ability to deliver affordability for consumers while generating strong operating leverage. We’re expecting more of the same strong performance in Q4 with another quarter of high teens gross bookings growth and low to mid-30s EBITDA growth in fact, we hit a new record over Halloween weekend, this most recent Halloween, with more than 130 million trips across mobility and delivery and generating more than 2 billion in gross bookings. While we’re proud of what we built, we’re even more focused on what comes next. As I often remind the team, great technology companies deliver today while building for tomorrow. To that end, we decided we’ve defined six strategic areas of focus to guide our next phase. First, from trip experience to lifetime experience, we’re deepening engagement across our platform with cross platform consumers spending three times more and retaining 35% better than single product users. Second is building a hybrid future, seamlessly integrating human drivers and autonomous vehicles into a single marketplace, giving us unmatched flexibility and efficiency. Third, investing in local commerce, expanding rapidly into grocer and retail, now at an approximately 12 billion gross bookings run rate and growing significantly faster than restaurant delivery. Fourth is multiple gigs. This is broadening earning opportunities for 9.4 million drivers and couriers, including new digital tasks powered by Uber AI solutions. Fifth is becoming a growth engine for merchants, helping our over 1.2 million merchant partners drive significant incremental sales through ads, offers and new demand channels like Uber Direct, as well as new partnerships. And then finally, Generative AI embedding intelligence across Uber to enhance productivity, optimize our operations and deliver more personalized consumer experiences. You’ll see us invest in these areas with our product, our people and our capital in the years ahead. They’re designed to deepen customer relationships, grow our technology advantage, and to extend the profitability flywheel that we built with strong execution, a unified global platform and unmatched scale. We’re building the next generation of Uber one that’s positioned to create lasting value for many, many years ahead. With that operator, why don’t we start? Questions? Operator Thank you. Your first question comes from the line of Doug Anmus of J.P. morgan. Your line is open. JP Morgan (Equity Analyst) Thanks for taking the questions. Dara, Can you just talk about the path. To increase the 20% of NA regions in markets where you have mobility and delivery? They use Uber one and you know, talk about those drivers of cross platform usage. And then could you expand on the recently announced Nvidia partnership? Both of you have invested in several AV tech providers. You’ve also talked about deploying 100,000 vehicles. Can you talk about the timeline and then who will own the fleets in that scenario? Thanks. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Sure. Absolutely. So in terms of cross platform and the penetration there, you know, as we talked about about 20, 20% of consumers where we operate both mobility and delivery because we don’t operate mobility delivery in every single country that we operate in, only 20% of consumers are active across both businesses. And for example, 30% of our mobility riders have never tried any Uber eats offering and 75% have never tried grocer retail. And typically where we see a higher penetration of that 20% is in markets where mobility and delivery are particularly strong in terms of their penetration. Australia is an example where the cross-platform penetration is higher. the cross platform crossover is higher. What we have now done, what we’re doing now is to set up specific programs to drive cross platform behavior. So you’ll see kind of top tabs and rides and Uber Eats app to make it easier to transact across the various businesses. We’re creating like personalized experiences to upsell based on context. Let’s say rise to Eats. If you’re going to work, we’ll offer you Starbucks on the way to work. That’s great incremental business for Starbucks and it’s kind of a delightful experience for you as well. And then of course membership is a huge factor in deepening kind of our own relationship with consumers. But then also introducing cross platform as well. So all of those are various ways to drive cross platform. The average cross platform consumer is spending three times more than kind of monoline consumers. So it’s just a mathematical and unique advantage that we have. And I think we’re very, very early in terms of the innings in terms of driving cross platform activity. It’s happening naturally and again, a lot of innovation going on from the teams to make sure that when we target cross platform usage, we’re doing with kind of with the right context and not getting in the way of your just ordering pizza on a Friday night. In terms of Nvidia, we are very, very excited about the partnership there. Nvidia is creating with Hyperion, like a reference architecture for L4 Ready, L4 Ready autonomous that they’re going to make available to any OEM out there. And if you kind of step back and you think about the strategy, a future, you know, 10 years from now where every single new car sold is not only L3 ready if it’s a personal car, but it’s also L4 ready if you want to contribute that car to a ride sharing platform like ours, or fleets might buy those cars as well. That is a very bright future for the world because it’ll make the world safer in terms of these autonomous vehicles being super safe, not getting distracted in terms of driving, but it’s also very good for our ecosystem in that we will have a ready kind of supply of cars on our platform as well. And we are very early, but I think that we’re quite confident in demonstrating that cars, L4 cars that are on our platform can drive higher revenue per car per day than cars that aren’t on our platform. So we think that the Nvidia strategy, and our strategy is very much aligned. We announced the relationship also with Stellantis, with the initial 5,000 vehicles that are going to be powered by Nvidia as well. But we expect that to scale significantly more going forward. We will use our, you know, again, Nvidia is building the software as well, so it’s a hardware platform, but Nvidia is also investing in building out L4 software stack that will be then essentially distributable on any car using the Hyperion 10 platform, which is a great reference architecture. And then in terms of who’s going to own the fleets, you know, we will. We can lean in with our balance sheet early on to kind of establish the economics of these fleets. But eventually we think that you’re going to have just like you’ve got these REITs owning hotels that are yield vehicles. I think that you will see yield vehicles show up for fleets in terms of whether they’re owned by private equity or public fleets out there. So we can lean in with our balance sheet, but we think that all these assets are going to be financialized over a period of time. So very excited about the partnership. Obviously, if there’s one ally you want in the world in terms of AI or autonomous, it’s Nvidia and super excited to innovate with them. Thank you. Dawson. JP Morgan (Equity Analyst) Sure. Operator The next question comes from Eric Sheridan with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Goldman Sachs (Equity Analyst) Thanks so much for taking the questions on the delivery side of the business. As you continue to widen out the array of what you’re offering users, can you talk a little bit about how much of that is a stimulant to new user growth for Uber Eats or a driver of increased frequency across the broader platform, just to better understand where the sort of the output of the yield is showing up in the business? And then on the AV side, maybe building on Doug’s question where you’ve rolled out EVs today, what have you learned so far with respect to the impact of more supply on the road and how it helps either stimulate demand or impact on the pricing side? Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Thanks so much. Yeah, hi Eric, it’s Prashant. I’ll take the first part of that on Delivery. And then, and then let Dara address the AV side. We had a. We’re really thrilled with how the delivery business has accelerated for the third quarter. It’s the fastest growth we’ve seen in four years. Four points of acceleration. And it really, you’re seeing that growth pretty broad across multiple markets. And it’s coming from investments that we’re making in a number of areas on improving the product. On the grocery and retail side, specifically, we’re very excited on how grocery and retail is leading to an introduction of folks into the online food delivery as well. And we’re seeing great growth. And I think we have some data in our supplemental charts that show some of the statistics around that, which is, which is grocery and retail being a source of creating consumers for the online food delivery. Grocery and retail. It’s a great tam for us. I think in the prepared remarks we may have mentioned that we’re at now a $12 billion run rate and it’s growing at a meaningfully faster rate than our online food delivery. And we’ll continue to lean into that grocery retail business, which is now variable contribution positive. So it is, it’s helping us carry its own weight with high growth and really is working quite complementary with delivery. And then as Dara just answered in Doug’s question, it’s that cross, cross platform strategy that we’re working on to help folks move across all three of our lobs. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) And then, Eric, in terms of how AVs are affecting the overall business, listen, it’s very, very early. Biggest scale operations that we’ve got are with Waymo in Austin and Atlanta. And what we are seeing is that those markets are growing faster than other US markets. And this is in a Q3 where the US actually accelerated nicely Q3 over Q2. So the overall US market is strong. But we’re finding that, for example, growth in Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta was more than twice the rest of the US So that’s certainly good signal. What that has also led to is that driver earnings in those markets are super, super healthy as well. So in Austin, for example, where we have the most AVs on the ground, driver earnings per hour actually outpace the rest of the U.S. so, you know, whether or not the growth in those markets is correlation or causal, it’s too soon to tell. But the markets certainly look healthy. Our partnership with Waymo continues to be excellent from an operational standpoint. Waymo utilization is still very, very high. And what we’re seeing is an overall market that’s healthy as well, which is really good signal. As we transition to this hybrid network of AVs and human drivers. All right, next question. Operator The next question comes from Brian Nowak with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Morgan Stanley (Equity Analyst) Thanks for taking my questions. I have two, one on mobility and one on delivery. The first one on mobility. The US Business seems to be doing very well. Again, just curious for any further color on progress you’re making in the urban versus suburban strategy or the sparse city strategy I think you talked about, call it six or nine months ago, drivers of that growth and that nice drip growth you’re seeing in the US Urban versus suburban. Now in food delivery, any color you can give us about the European food delivery business, one of your competitors is going to be entering a couple of those markets, potentially a little more aggressively to come. How do you sort of think about the key investment areas into 26 you’re focused on in the European food delivery business? Thanks. Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Okay, thanks, Brian. I’m going to handle the first question on mobility and then Dara will talk about competitors in the food delivery space. So the sparse geography strategy, which we had talked about this originally, if you recall, this originally was an output of the work that we had led on focusing on how to increase our delivery business. And in that analysis, and as we began to look at how we can make better progress on delivery, we identified that there was more opportunity for us to continue to push on sparse geographies in the mobility area. And the benefit that we’re seeing there really is first, it’s a very large footprint. So as we look across. The globe. Here and similar for the US Our, our sparse geographies are actually growing at about one and a half times the rate of our denser, denser markets. And the penetration opportunity in, in these sparse markets continues to be quite high. We know our rough take is that, is that we’re maybe 20, 20% into what the opportunity is on the, on the sparse market. So still lots of upside there. And again, that’s global numbers. But you’re sort of seeing similar demographics for the US Which I think is where your question was. So in focusing on the sparse geographies, we’re really focused on three areas. It is on the expanding the availability of the product, increasing the reliability of the product, and then ensuring that, that we have the right product fit. For example, the wait and save product has been an excellent match for the sparse geographies because typically when you’re in a more suburban environment, you’re in a situation where you don’t mind waiting a little bit for your ride, which gives us the ability to find the right match and to compensate for the lower density of cars which may be in that market. So all of that is continuing to feed the flywheel and we feel very excited about how sparse geographies are going to continue to provide growth for our US market for many quarters to come. I’ll hand here now to Dara to talk about the delivery competition environment. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Yeah, absolutely. So we are very happy about our position in Europe. We got the leading position in Europe. We’ve become the number one player in the uk. We’ve been the number one player in France for some period of time. Were gaining category position very solidly in both Spain and Germany. I was visiting there last last week to visit with the teams and understand a bit more about the market. So the momentum in Europe and the profitability in Europe is excellent. And listen, food is a huge category. It’s no surprise. This is 2 trillion tam in food and kind of 10 trillion tam in groceries. So competition is going to be a fact. We have built a position in Europe organically and some of our competitors have had to buy their way into a European position. And that’s always more difficult because it comes with a bunch of integration mess, et cetera, that we don’t have to deal with. And I think from our standpoint, we’re going to do more of the same, which is it’s all about expanding merchant selection and improving service, improving reliability in terms of delivering the food to you exactly as as expected, at the right time, we’re going to use the power of the platform to drive cross sell and membership as well. And then we’re going to continue to kind of deepen our partnership with the ecosystem. You’ve seen announcements with Open Table Instacart Ifood as well in Brazil. Not in Europe obviously, but in Brazil. And I think that the last thing that I would say is, you know, we’ve competed with a number of these players outside of the us we compete with doordash in many markets in Australia, Japan, Canada and we’ve been gaining category position in those markets for some period of time. So competition against these players is nothing new. And certainly in the us, in Europe and the rest of the world, we have been a category gainer for some period of time while improving profitability and I expect that to continue. Great. All right, let’s take another question. Operator The next question comes from Justin Post with Bank of America. Your line is open. Bank of America (Equity Analyst) Great, thanks for taking my question. Just would love to hear you talk. About the margin flow through in the quarter. If you made any Extra investments. And then second, how you’re thinking about. The investments you’re going to need over the next 12, 18 months to really scale your AV business and could that impact mobility margins? Thank you. Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Okay, yeah, Justin, I’ll take the first one and I’ll let Dara sort of comment on that second one there. So maybe let’s take a step back to reflect on third quarter. Our profit, our EBITDA was up 33% year over year and as a result we hit an all time high for margins at 4.5% of GBS which is up roughly 40bps year over year. The outlook for Q4 is pretty consistent. Another rinse and repeat and we are tracking exactly where we want to be against the three year framework we gave you in February of 24 and that is mid to high teens gross bookings growth and a high 30 to 40% EBITDA CAGR. We really are proud of how we’ve been able to drive profitable growth at scale here. Both mobility and delivery are accelerating and that’s accelerating off of a pretty enormous base. So it is tough to really defy the law of large numbers. And with that growth we’re converting that into the strong profitability and generating a ton of cash, almost $9 billion on a trailing 12 month which we’re reducing to which we’re using to reduce share count. So we are very deliberately, as we have said for several quarters now, we are very deliberately moderating the pace of our margin expansion over the last, the last couple of years. We demonstrated that this enterprise and this business model can be profitable. We’ve taken our, for example, we’ve taken our delivery business from when I joined in late 23 from like a low 2% EBITDA margin to now almost 4. And that has been through to demonstrate that this is a great business. These are both great businesses. With that we’re now asking investors measure us on total profitability. Understand that we are committed to annual profit expansion year over year profit expansion for as far into the future as we can see. But we will sort of run the balance between the two product lines and on a sequential basis to make investments. And that’s because we, as we’ve said many times, we have so many exciting opportunities to invest in. I won’t go through a big laundry list here but you know, Dara has already mentioned the exciting things we see on cross platform. The investments we’re making in affordability and low cost product offerings is, is partly what is responsible for the acceleration in mobility that we’re talking about in some earlier questions we talked about grocery and retail, which are being a great source of adding new consumers. So I could go on and on, but that’s the model and we’re excited about the future. And I would just continue to remind investors, focus on our overall profit dollar expansion and know that we are committed to growing that on an annual basis for as far into the future as we can see. Let me now relate that among the many exciting investment opportunities to hand off to Dara to talk about investment opportunities in av. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Justin so just putting some perspective in terms of av. AV is not profitable today. And any new product that we introduced into the marketplace starts off in a position where we’re losing money and we’re unprofitable and the pattern is the same every single time. Introduce a new product, invest in building out supply of that product. Once we invest in building out that supply of that product, we build up liquidity in the ecosystem. And as we build up liquidity, we build more consumer demand. As liquidity and reliability improves, consumer demand improves, as does willingness to pay to improve like that. We’ve done it 10 times, 15 times, over and over again. And if you look at our strategy on the mobility business, it’s a bit of a barbell strategy. So we’ve got kind of UberX, which is kind of the baseline business, and then we have some premium products like U4B Uber for business that has premium margins like Black and Reserve, that also come with premium margins as well. And we use those premium margins to invest into some of the categories that we’re trying to build our growth bets. For example, so this was taxi, it was two wheelers, Moto, three wheelers, auto rickshaws in, in India, it’s Uber X Share, for example. All of those products have been unprofitable when we launch. And as we build out liquidity, kind of the profitability of those products improves. And frankly, you know, we can turn those profit, those products profitable if we want it tomorrow. But it’s about the balance of investing and profitability and growth. The same is true of AV here, which is as we’re building out our supply base, we’ll lose money in av. I expect that AV won’t be profitable for a few years going forward. And as we build liquidity, we can take margins up. Right now it looks exactly like a number of our early products and kind of we can balance the overall margins of our mobility business with this barbell strategy of premium products, feeding some of our investment products and feeding some of the new growth that’s as it relates to av. We’ll also use our balance sheet. We’ll kind of invest in the ecosystem, various players. We will. We have established a global kind of fleet network to make sure that they can clean the cars, recharge the cars, etc. And we’re also investing in AV data collection and partnership with Nvidia so that we are collecting kind of rideshare specific data that we can provide to our partners as well. So this is something we’ve done multiple times and we expect to run the play again in AV in terms of the barbell strategy that we’ve got. Bank of America (Equity Analyst) Great, thank you. Operator You’re welcome. Last question. The next question comes from Ron Jose with Citi. Your line is open. Citibank (Equity Analyst) Great. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe sticking with the investment theme. But bar to your point on lifetime. Investments, you know I think in the. Letter you talked about suggested some short term investments for loyalty gains. Can you help us understand a little. Bit more on on these loyalty gains on the Uber one benefits, clearly we’ve talked about cross platform and then back on us trip growth which accelerated affordability, the barbell approach. Totally get it. Talk to us about insurance rates and. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Then the benefits from newer driver or newer riders like seniors and teens. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. So we’re very, very happy about our progress in Uber 1. I think the last time that we talked to you we talked about 36 million members growing at healthy rates. That continues. So the penetration of Uber ones in terms of gross bookings, it’s about 2/3 of gross bookings for our delivery business and continues to increase its gross bookings penetration in mobility as well. And the benefits are frankly they’re just the best benefits in the industry. You know, you got 6% cash back on rides, no delivery fee, up to 10% off of orders plus exclusive selection and upgrade to priority delivery and then kind of surprise and delight other moments as well that we give to our members. The other good news for us is that when we look at membership cohorts and membership retention, even though the number of members is growing very, very fast, the cohorts actually in terms of retention continue to improve, especially as we move a higher percentage of the users from monthly passes to annual passes as well. And then at the same time we continue to roll out the program geographically we’re up and we’re now in 42 countries versus 28 a year ago. Now I would tell you that early on in the initial months when someone becomes a member, typically that is profit negative for us because the discounts that we offer the member exceed the increment in terms of how much they use the product and, or how well we retain them. Both of those go up as the members mature, you know, six plus months, then the members actually become profitable as well. So in the first six months actually moving someone over to membership, especially moving someone who is already a high frequency user, is a net negative. We still make money on those members, but it’s a net negative in terms of margins and then it becomes a net positive as the power of the platform comes in, cross platform comes in and retention kicks in as well. So it’s just an example of kind of a near term investments that we make to drive long term engagement and long term growth. And the math behind those investments in terms of the lifetime value versus the cost of a member acquisition continues to improve as a result. We’re also kind of investing in more partnerships to align our membership program with other membership programs. Obviously we have a best in breed program with amex, the consumer Platinum Spend, but you’re also seeing like exclusive premium table reservations via OpenTable, discounted or sometimes free Clear plus memberships as well. So the power of the membership is actually getting stronger as we align with others in the industry as well. Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Ron, I’ll take the second part of that question on insurance and you know, 2025 really has been a very good year for us in terms of the progress that we’ve made. And maybe before I get into the elements, just a shout out to the cross functional team across Uber us who really has helped us in a number of different areas make, make great progress in 25. So we’ve always talked about sort of three elements to our insurance strategy. And over the course of this year all three have really contributed to what I think will be beneficial for us in 2016. And as we go forward on the legislation side, we’ve had a number of great wins in a variety of different areas. Georgia, Nevada and then most recently I think there’s been a bit of press on the wins in California which will help specifically reduce the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage limits that are applicable to us from $1,000,000 down to 60,000 on an individual basis and 300,000 per accident. That is, that’s very beneficial for us in California and it adds to the momentum that we’ve seen in a number of other states. On the tech side, we’ve talked about the Driving Insights dashboard and this is a, this is a product that the tech team has developed that allows our drivers to get some intelligence and some performance feedback on what their driving behavior is doing. It helps alert them to, you know, jackrabbit starts and hard braking, sharp turns and so forth. And by giving them this feedback, we are actually seeing drivers on their own sort of improve their driving behavior. And it’s actually, actually we’ve seen, after we’ve introduced that visibility to drivers, we’ve seen more miles driven by those in the highest scoring bucket, which is an indicator that folks are adapt adjusting their behavior to be safer drivers. And then the sort of, the cherry on top of that is we’ve now introduced Advantage Mode into select cities and we’ll continue to roll that out. And Advantage Mode actually provides some rewards to those drivers who are improving their driving score. And then lastly, on the commercial side, by having a captive and having a top class team that is working on the commercial negotiations, we have the ability to continue to keep our partnerships really at a stable level and also, you know, where need be apply some tension on who holds the risk and who holds the, you know, how much profitability our partners can share from that. And that allows us to keep tension on the cost side. So the result of all these efforts is we expect that we’re going to see hundreds of millions of dollars of savings and we look to pass those savings on to customers through lower fares really across the US for next year. Operator Next question, the next question comes from Ross Sandler with Barclays. Your line is open. Barclays (Equity Analyst) Hey guys, just wanted to ask about. The, the new multiple Gigs initiatives. So what are the some, what are. Some of the areas that you’re looking. Into for new work, new earning potential, new and you know, stepping back, how. Might this initiative impact things like driver. Retention or overall profitability for Uber compared. To just kind of operating only the. Two areas of earnings that we’re in today? Thank you. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, just similar to the consumer where we see consumers using multiple platforms, they retain better, they use our, they get embedded with our platform more. The same is true for earners, which is to the extent that they use this for delivering and shopping, etc. Or delivering and, and, or mobility, they’re, they’re embedded with the platform, we retain them for longer, etc. What, what kind of one way of looking at Uber? Obviously we are a logistics transformation platform in terms of moving people, places or getting anything to your home or you know, getting a truck to, to ship your goods. Another way of looking at our platform is that we’re a platform for work. And the first kind of, kind of work that we have gone after is transportation. But we can empower other kinds of work as well, which is what Uber AI Solutions is, is all about. The work that we are doing encompasses, you know, training AI models to rating both kind of voice bot audio responses to annotating videos from multiple sources for various players, like security cameras and robots, for example, or creating, you know, kind of judging query response pairs across various answers, AI answers. And this kind of work is available to both earners who are on the platform all around the world. You know, we need this work done in English and we’ll need it done in Spanish. We might need it done in many other languages as well. And it’s another earnings opportunity for both our earners who are in place now, but also new earners who can come to the platforms. Some of the, some of the roles require PhDs, for example, in physics, in order to get the gig done, so to speak. And the pay for that kind of work is obviously higher. So this is, we think, you know, one is it is an opportunity to provide more work as the nature of work changes going forward. We do think that it will provide more earnings opportunities for earners and kind of which. Which is terrific. And we think this can ultimately be another profitable line of business for us. Uber AI Solutions is. We’re landing a ton of customers and it is kind of nascent in its operations right now, but the potential that we see is enormous. Operator Next question, please. The next question comes from John Palentoni with Jefferies. Your line is open. Jeffries Bank (Equity Analyst) Great. Thanks for taking my questions. First, can you talk about any key capabilities provided by the Toast partnership and how it fits into your broader framework for leveraging partnerships to help drive growth and profitability. And second, Prashanth, maybe you can talk about the rationale for shifting some of. The non GAAP metrics and for the. Move from adjusted EBITDA to adjusted operating income Specifically, does this have any reflection on your ramp and capital investments in. The autonomous vehicle space? Thanks. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Yeah, absolutely. So in terms of Toast, we’re very, very happy about that partnership. They are a strategic partner and obviously Toast is kind of one of the leading point of sale offerings in the industry. What you will see in terms of Toast is that, you know, a restaurant that is Toast enabled essentially will be automatically enabled for Eats as well. So the integration between Toast and Eats is going to be seamless. Menu uploads will be seamless, picture uploads will be seamless. So we’re actually using the data, the restaurant data that Toast is empowering, and then moving that data directly across to Uber Eats, it it’s going to simplify kind of setting up your operation on Eats. It’s going to simplify how you market on Eats and it’s going to kind of save a bunch of time for those entrepreneurs who are building out our restaurant ecosystem. So I think it’s just going to be a more seamless, integrated experience that gives restaurants a lot more control, a lot more flexibility and allows them to launch on Eats immediately. We are also hoping to help TOAST grow its international presence outside of the U.S. obviously they’re very, very strong in the U.S. our footprint outside of the U.S. as you know, is much more mature. So we think this is kind of a win win for us. It gives us more footprint across TOAST ecosystem and then for Toast it helps them grow outside of the US as well. Prashanth, do you want to take a second? Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Yeah, thanks. So yeah, thanks for the question John. So the rationale really is a reflection. Just as we as a company grow in size, scale and maturity, we want to provide investors with with metrics that allow for better comparability across the alternative options they have on where to put their clients capital. And moving to a adjusted EPS model really allows for that ease of compare and it reflects that. We as a management team understand that there are real costs that come from depreciation from some of the software amortization, the stock based comp, et cetera that need to be reflected in the cost of our of running the business as well as including really the benefits that come with reducing share count from returning the cash that this enterprise is generating to shareholders by repurchasing our shares. So nothing more to it than really I think it’s a journey that all companies go through as they scale and become more meaningful in an investor portfolio. And then personally I think as CFO, I like having the LoB leaders held to a adjusted operating income because there are choices that they make on for example talent decisions and location decisions which can impact to costs such as stock based compensation or depreciation. And those are real costs to the business. And it helps to have that also in their consideration as they think about where they want to make their investments to continue to drive top line growth, but being mindful of our of our commitments to continue to grow profitability. So it’s really just I think the appropriate evolution for the company given where we are. Operator All right, we’ll take the last question please. The last question comes from Nikhil Devnani with Bernstein. Your line is open. Bernstein Research (Equity Analyst) Hi there. Thank you for taking my question. I had A couple, please. So first I wanted to follow up on the strong results in mobility. And I’m just wondering, did the upside. Primarily come from the moderation in insurance. Pressure or were there other network improvements. That unlocked the growth in the quarter as well? I think the letter talks about driver supply and product uptake. So just trying to understand the relative. Contribution from those additional factors and how. They might continue to stack in your favor into 26. And then my second question is on AVS. Dara, can you speak a little bit about the scale and quality of real world data that you’re able to contribute? It seems like that’s a core constraint for a lot of AV companies and. You can help chip away at that problem. So I’m curious to hear how you’re. Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah (Chief Financial Officer) Going about tackling that. Thank you. Yeah, thanks, Nikhil. I’ll take the first one, really. And it’s very specific to mobility growth, I believe is where you were asking. So the business is doing really well. Look, the investments we’ve made are starting to come through at a great rate. The marketplace trends are strong. The product innovation is giving us conviction. I think what we would like investors to really focus on is this growth is trips led and that is the healthiest way to grow the business because it comes from expanding our audience mobility. Audience hit 150, almost 150 million users. That is an all time high for us. Our frequency growth was also very strong. So together you’re seeing the right drivers behind it and it’s coming from great growth on the core as well as the new product portfolio. So we still feel very confident as we look to 20, 26 and beyond. I mean, the metric that we, that keeps us excited is, for example, looking at our top 10 markets, only 10% of the adult population uses Uber on a monthly basis. So we have, we continue to see great opportunity to continue to penetrate the tam. And I think Dara has made reference to our barbell strategy. And maybe just to help put that in perspective, Uber X, which is really the core engine of our growth, represents sort of about two thirds of our trips. So when you look at the wings, you see the investments we’ve made in product product innovation on the low cost, such as the Moto product, wait and save, the shuttle that we’re running in New York, shared ride, all of those are making Uber more accessible to a, to a broader population and helping us onboard new users, which is behind some of that audience growth. And then the investments that we’re making in premium, which include the comfort, the black, I think We’ve made mention that we are, we’re working to launch an Uber Elite product in the, in the next quarter or two. All of those help us to balance that overall profitability to allow us to continue to drive the margin expansion. So overall we feel great about the growth. And then sort of more specifically if we think about what happened in third quarter, I would tell you that it was on the trip side. We had good growth internationally, LATAM and Apac and we also had a great European summer travel that really helped out on trips. And then just in terms of helping you bridge from the high trip growth of 21% to the 19% of GB growth, as I mentioned, that growth internationally, that puts a little bit of mix pressure down because obviously trips outside the US and Canada are at a lower price point. So that puts a little bit of trip pressure as well. So I wouldn’t really characterize what we saw in Q3 as one off. We’re now entering our busiest quarter. Dara already made opening comments on what a spectacular weekend we had for Halloween. So we feel good that 2026 is going to be another great year for Uber and will continue to be a business that has that the ability to generate high mid to high teens growth, convert that into great profitability, convert that into great cash and then use that to reduce share count. And that’s the model we want people to get behind. Dara Khosrowshahi (Chief Executive Officer) Great. And then in terms of AVs and collection of real world data, we are collecting real world data as we speak. The advantage that we have is we already run a rideshare network and it’s a essentially putting a vehicle in place that is appropriate for collection of this real world data. And as you can expect, the ride share use case is particular in terms of pickups and drop offs or the commonality of pickups and drop offs, you know, stadiums, airports, et cetera. We have, obviously we’re working very closely with our AV partners and the feedback that we’re getting from them in terms of the value of the data and training their models is very, very positive. And then the Nvidia announcement for us is a marker to really scale the operations. Here we are looking into building out a more robust sensor stack for example to get higher definition data quality across both camera and lidar for some of our partners. And we’re not really restricted by scale because it’s either a vehicle or it’s a that we can put on top of these vehicles. We’ve got, for example, you know, we’ll probably work with some of our fleet partners as well as some IC drivers as well. So this is something that we can scale up essentially as much as we as we desire in partnership with Nvidia and our other AV partners as well. And again, we think that between the Hyperion hardware platform, Nvidia working on L4 themselves, the multiple partnerships that we have both in terms of mobility and delivery on av, and now our ability to collect data, and then the SIM capabilities for many of these partners are much stronger in terms of collecting one piece of data and then running thousands of scenarios from that core piece of data. We think that’s a terrific combination to bring AV to market as quickly as possible and obviously on the, on the Uber platform. So very excited about the possibilities here. All right, thank you very much. Thank you for your questions and thanks everyone for joining us. And to the Uber teams, great quarter in terms of growth, both top line and bottom line, and hopefully more to come. Thanks, everyone. Talk to you soon. Operator This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect. This transcript is to be used for informational purposes only. 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