How Uber is surprisingly immune to coronavirus
Mar 19, 2020
After a sharp technical unwind on Wednesday, Uber rallied over +38% on Thursday after demonstrating on an investor call the resilience of its business model to coronavirus-driven slowdowns.
The 4 key takeaways:
1.) They have few near-term debt obligations.
Uber has raised debt on relatively lax terms with no maturities until 2023.
2.) Even with an 80% slowdown, their Rides business can break even.
What’s not very well-appreciated is that two-thirds of Uber’s cost structure is variable.
As a result, the Rides business can likely withstand an 80% drawdown in bookings and still break even on an EBITDA basis.
3.) Uber Eats is seeing a massive uptick in restaurant signups.
Eats is seeing a 10x increase in restaurant signups since just last week, potentially helping offset some of the decline seen in Rides.
And most importantly…
4.) They have plenty of liquidity, including $10 billion in unrestricted cash.
Management believes that Uber can withstand even the most dramatic, “extreme edge case” scenario (assuming an 80% decline in rides and no recovery).
In that environment, it would still end the year with $4 billion in cash plus a fully untapped $2 billion credit line, placing it in a superb financial position.
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