Sentiment · FY2026 Q1
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“Robotaxi rides are growing exponentially with commercial fleets from Waymo, Tesla, Uber, WeRide and Zoox, and many others are expected to scale from thousands of vehicles in 2025 to millions over the next decade, creating a market poised to generate hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue.”
Uber named among commercial robotaxi fleets scaling on NVIDIA-powered autonomous platforms.
“We are partnering with Uber to scale the world's largest level four ready autonomous fleet”
NVIDIA is partnering with Uber to scale a large level-4 autonomous robotaxi fleet on its Hyperion architecture.
“Great companies like Uber, like Conagra, like LY, like Williams Sonoma, like all these great companies that we've been talking about.”
Uber is cited among companies now in production with AgentForce, which grew 70% quarter over quarter.
“Uber was 4.7% of sales for Q3.”
Darden uses Uber for first-party delivery at Olive Garden, where Uber-fulfilled delivery reached 4.7% of Olive Garden sales in the quarter, supported by delivery marketing.
“Uber has now surpassed 3 million cores on OCI, powering their highest traffic ever this Halloween.”
Uber scaled past 3 million cores on OCI to power record Halloween traffic.
“First-party delivery through our partnership with Uber Direct continues to drive strong results.”
Darden's first-party delivery via Uber Direct reached 4% of Olive Garden sales (about half incremental) and is being rolled out to Cheddar's and Yard House, a positive read-through for Uber's Direct white-label delivery business.
“our same-day delivery service offered through Instacart, Uber Eats and DoorDash continue to grow at a faster pace than our overall digital sales.”
Uber Eats is one of Costco's same-day delivery partners, a channel growing faster than overall digital sales, a positive read-through for Uber's delivery volume.
“Leading companies include OneX, Agility Robots, Figueroa, Uber, and Wabi. We've begun integrating Cosmos into their operations for synthetic data generation.”
Uber is among the companies beginning to integrate NVIDIA's Cosmos world foundation models for synthetic data generation.
“First-party delivery through our partnership with Uber Direct is helping capture younger, and more affluent guests who value convenience and crave Olive Garden.”
Darden's first-party delivery runs on Uber Direct, a positive read-through for Uber's white-label delivery logistics business.
“Our same-day delivery service offered in partnership with Instacart in the US and Uber Eats and DoorDash internationally also performed extremely well, growing at a faster pace than our overall digital sales.”
Uber Eats powers Costco same-day delivery internationally, a fast-growing digital channel.
“The robotics and automotive companies, including ride-sharing giant Uber, are among the first to adopt the platform.”
Uber is among the first companies to adopt NVIDIA's Cosmos world-foundation-model platform for physical AI and robotics.
“we developed this Uber Direct offer with Uber, which was the perfect thing for us and a really great thing for Uber.”
Darden's CEO frames the Uber Direct delivery arrangement as a mutually beneficial deal structure while the company evaluates whether to expand delivery marketplace participation to more brands.
“you've got Baidu in China who has developed AV-ready technology, whom we are partnering with outside of the U.S. as well.”
Uber is partnering with Baidu, which has AV-ready technology, to deploy autonomous vehicles outside the US, a read-through on Baidu's autonomous driving commercialization.
“our latest investment was, for example, in Waabi, which is a leading AV provider of trucks and is getting into passenger mobility as well”
Uber made an equity investment in AV startup Waabi and secured exclusivity on its first 25,000 passenger vehicles, signaling Waabi's expansion from trucking into passenger mobility.
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Doug Anmuth | JPMorgan | 12 (0%) |
| Brian Nowak | Morgan Stanley | 12 (0%) |
| Justin Post | Bank of America |
“We're partnering with NVIDIA to kind of build a real-world data collection factory that's looking to collect over 3 million hours of real-world specific data”
Uber is partnering with NVIDIA to build a real-world AV data collection factory and views NVIDIA's hardware/compute stack as an emerging industry standard, a read-through on NVIDIA's automotive/AV platform.
“Obviously, Waymo is -- while they're not finished, they are safer than humans, which is terrific.”
Uber cites Waymo (Alphabet) as the leading AV player already demonstrating better-than-human safety, both a competitor in some cities and a partner on Uber's platform in others.
“how do you think about the impact of AV ramps from, say, Tesla or Waymo in those cities on market share and your profitability?”
An analyst frames Tesla as an autonomous-vehicle player whose ramp in major cities could affect Uber's market share, a read-through on Tesla's robotaxi ambitions.
“exclusive premium table reservations via OpenTable”
Uber offers Uber One members exclusive premium reservations via Booking Holdings' OpenTable, a partnership feeding Uber's membership value proposition.
“we have a best-in-breed program with Amex.”
Uber cites a membership partnership with American Express (Consumer Platinum) as strengthening Uber One, implying continued Amex co-brand engagement.
“We compete with DoorDash in many markets.”
Uber frames DoorDash as a delivery competitor it faces in markets like Australia, Japan and Canada, claiming category-position gains against it.
“in terms of toast, we are very, very happy about that partnership. They are a strategic partner.”
Uber calls Toast a strategic partner, with Toast-enabled restaurants auto-enabled for Uber Eats and Uber helping Toast expand internationally.
“The biggest scale operations that we have got are with Waymo in Austin and Atlanta.”
Uber's largest AV operations run on Alphabet's Waymo in Austin and Atlanta, with Uber citing strong Waymo utilization and faster growth in those markets.
“We announced the relationship also with Stellantis, with an initial 5,000 vehicles that are going to be powered by Nvidia as well.”
Uber announced a relationship with Stellantis for an initial 5,000 Nvidia-powered vehicles, with plans to scale, signaling Stellantis participation in Uber's AV fleet strategy.
“Obviously, if there is one ally you want in the world in terms of AI or autonomous, it is Nvidia and super excited to innovate with them.”
Uber announced an AV partnership with Nvidia (Hyperion L4 reference architecture and data collection), a read-through on Nvidia's push to supply autonomous-driving hardware/software to OEMs and fleets.
| Eric Sheridan | Goldman Sachs | 8 (0%) |
| Mike Morton | MoffettNathanson | 7 (14%) |
| Nikhil Devnani | Bernstein | 7 (29%) |
| John Colantuoni | Jefferies | 6 (0%) |
| Mark Mahaney | Evercore ISI | 4 (0%) |
| Ron Josey | Citigroup | 3 (0%) |
| Ross Sandler | Barclays | 3 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan | 1 | 12 (0%) |
| Morgan Stanley | 1 | 12 (0%) |
| Bank of America | 1 | 8 (0%) |
| Goldman Sachs | 1 | 8 (0%) |
| Bernstein | 1 | 7 (29%) |
| MoffettNathanson | 1 | 7 (14%) |
| Jefferies | 1 | 6 (0%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 4 (0%) |
Uber closed FY2025 with gross bookings up 22% year-over-year in Q4, generating record full-year adjusted EBITDA of $8.7B (up 35%) and $9.8B in free cash flow (up 42%) as trips reached a 15 billion annual run rate with over 200 million monthly active users. AV expansion reached 15 cities with new partnerships, and Uber One membership surged to 46 million members. US acceleration was driven by insurance reform and product innovation, while the delivery business hit multi-year highs with grocery expansion and a CFO transition from Prashanth to Balaji was announced.
Innovation & R&D | Competitive Dynamics | Demand | Capex Investment | Pricing | Margin | Revenue Growth | Geographic Expansion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025Q1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| 2025Q2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2025Q3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025Q4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2026Q1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation & R&D | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Demand | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Capex Investment | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Pricing | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Margin | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Revenue Growth | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Geographic Expansion | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
UBER Uber | 8 | +14.5% | |
| ADSK Autodesk | 10 | +18.4% | |
| APP Applovin Corp | 9 | +24.1% | |
| CDNS Cadence Design Systems | 9 | +18.7% | |
| CRM Salesforce, Inc. | 9 | +13.3% | |
| DDOG Datadog | 10 | +32.1% | |
| FICO Fair Isaac | 9 | +38.7% | |
| INTU Intuit | 9 | +10.4% | |
| MSTR MicroStrategy Inc. | 7 | +11.9% | |
| NOW ServiceNow | 7 | +22.1% | |
| PTC PTC Inc. | 9 | +21.7% | |
| SHOP Shopify | 8 | +34.3% | |
| TEAM Atlassian | 7 | +31.7% | |
| TTD The Trade Desk, Inc. | 8 | +11.8% | |
| TYL Tyler Technologies | 8 | +8.6% | |
| WDAY Workday, Inc. | 9 | +13.5% |