NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 12:24 ET — Regular session
- Uber shares rose about 0.9% to $82.22 in midday trade.
- A regulatory filing showed Uber’s president and COO exercised options and had shares withheld to cover taxes.
- Investors are watching the Fed’s meeting minutes later Tuesday and year-end positioning for clues into 2026.
Uber Technologies, Inc. shares rose 0.9% to $82.22 in midday trading on Tuesday, outperforming a slightly softer broader market in thin year-end volumes.
The move matters because liquidity is light in the final sessions of the year, amplifying the impact of routine corporate disclosures and macro headlines on single stocks.
Investors are also waiting for minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting, a detailed account of policymakers’ rate discussion due later Tuesday. “I wouldn’t try to make too much out of anything that happens in a holiday-shortened week,” Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth, said. Reuters
For Uber, the focus has been on how the company sustains demand while keeping a lid on costs, as investors weigh the outlook for consumer spending and interest rates heading into 2026.
A Form 4 filing — a disclosure that reports insider stock transactions — showed Uber President and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald exercised options to buy 125,000 shares at $42.52 on Dec. 23. The filing also showed 83,276 shares were withheld at $80.97 to cover taxes tied to the exercise, leaving him with 256,460 shares after the transactions.
Option exercises and related share withholding are common for executives and do not necessarily signal a change in view on the business. In thin markets, they can still grab traders’ attention.
Shares of rival Lyft were up about 0.3%, while food-delivery peer DoorDash was down about 0.3%, as trading across the gig-economy group stayed muted.
In its last quarterly report on Nov. 4, Uber said trips rose 22% year-over-year and gross bookings — the total value of rides, deliveries and freight transactions on its platform — grew 21% to $49.7 billion. Uber forecast fourth-quarter gross bookings of $52.25 billion to $53.75 billion and adjusted EBITDA — a profit metric before interest, taxes and some non-cash and one-time items — of $2.41 billion to $2.51 billion, and said it intended to redeem $1.2 billion of convertible notes due December 2025 in the fourth quarter.
Investors will be looking for any signal that Uber is tracking within those ranges as the quarter closes, particularly on profitability and cash generation.
Beyond Tuesday’s Fed minutes, traders are watching whether rate-cut expectations firm into early 2026 — a backdrop that can sway high-growth and consumer-facing stocks even when company news is limited.
The next major scheduled catalyst is Uber’s fourth-quarter results. Wall Street Horizon lists an unconfirmed earnings date of Feb. 4, 2026, before the market opens, based on historical reporting patterns.
Until then, Uber’s stock is likely to trade on broad market direction, any new regulatory or competitive developments in rides and delivery, and whether year-end positioning keeps volume and volatility elevated into the first sessions of January.
