Uber’s Foggy Future

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

“It’s like trying to run a race in the fog.” That’s how senior analyst Seth Jayson describes trying to predict how Uber and Lyft will get to profitability. We discuss those businesses in advance of their impending IPOs, plus we sift through the wreckage of 4th-quarter reports from Overstock.com and Lumber Liquidators.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, March 18th.
0:03.0	Welcome to Market Foolery.
0:05.0	I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.
0:07.0	Seth Jason.
0:08.0	Hey, hey?
0:09.0	We both survived St. Patrick's Day.
0:11.0	I didn't even know what was happening.
0:12.0	I was going to say we weren't really at risk.
0:14.0	Although...
0:15.0	I quit drinking, so I don't, I don't know when any...
0:17.0	Since all holidays in the U.S. now seemed to involve getting completely plastered.
0:21.0	Not all of them.
0:22.0	Not all of them. But you know any port in a storm I suppose.
0:26.5	We're gonna dig into some earnings and it's earnings in the air quotes and we're gonna we going to talk Uber and Lyft, which
0:34.4	are gearing up to go public next month.
0:36.4	You need double, triple air quotes for earnings there.
0:40.6	Let's start with overstock.com.
0:43.7	Fourth quarter results were such that stock down around 12% this morning.
0:49.8	I'll be honest.
0:50.8	Down a long way over the last couple of years.
0:53.2	Yeah, when I first saw this, my first thought was, oh, I think I had forgotten that
0:59.7	Overstock was still around.
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