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Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) executives used the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call to highlight what CEO David Risher described as “another strong quarter,” pointing to double-digit year-over-year gains in active riders, gross bookings and adjusted EBITDA. Risher said rideshare demand “remained healt

Q1 represented another strong quarter for Lyft, Inc. We again delivered on our financial commitments and again had double-digit growth in active riders, gross bookings, and adjusted EBITDA year over year, further setting ourselves up for a global hybrid AV future. Taken together with our financial results, this continues to validate our thesis that customer obsession drives profitable growth.

Lyft (LYFT) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -29.22% and +1.82%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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While they beat expectations on both revenue and gross bookings, both earnings and total rides came in a bit light. Shares initially rose a few percentage points after the report was released before falling around 3% to $13.71. Revenue for the first quarter came in at $1.650 billion, ahead of expectations for $1.631 billion.

The ride-hailing company reports better-than-expected earnings and gross bookings in the first quarter.

Both Uber and Lyft are expected to report their next set of quarterly results soon. But are analysts' revisions bearish or bullish?