
Uber Technologies (UBER) trades at $73.13, down about 20% over the past twelve months, while the S&P 500 (SPY) returned roughly 19%, and the stock sits at about 72% of its 52-week high. The worry is real: a multiyear $10 billion autonomous-vehicle investment whose income-statement impact management has not yet sized. One number has moved the other way in each of the last three years, and it is the operating margin.






