Lyft has beaten Uber to the punch on their IPO fillings; Lyft is expected to go public in coming week and is approximately valued around $23 Billion.
The company expects to be valued at as much as $23 billion. It plans to sell about 35.4 million shares, including the additional shares allotted to the underwriters, at between $62 to $68 a piece. At the high-end of that range, it will raise $2.4 billion. - a quote from this article
Do you think there is a tech bubble on the rise after Lyft's IPO valuation? How about Uber's IPO? Curious to hear monkeys' thoughts
Tech bubble af
Seconded - what goes up must come down
looks pretty bubbly. Not sure we're in the bathtub yet tho
Link goes to the wrong article, FYI
I'm staying far away. This is a pump and dump of epic proportions.
Lyft, unlike Uber, only operates in North America. So how much more can it grow? And in order to compete just in North America, they have to offer big discounts and spend unsustainably on marketing...
The logic is to only get "serious investors" to finance the business and keep them invested. They easily could have priced this thing in around $15-$20 a share.
Uber is the better deal, but we all will have opportunities to purchase both Lyft and Uber at much lower discounts 12-24 months from IPO day.
Pinterest is an interesting one, because of their search engine capabilities for non-branded items...I want to get in but I haven't narrowed it to a $ range yet, might stay on sidelines for the first month.
perspective is key, let's look at some actually successful companies and what they did at IPO
Visa, 1H2008 - $58bn market cap at IPO, >10x revenue Google, Fall 2004 - $23bn market cap at IPO, 59x revenue Amazon, 1997 - $438mm market cap at IPO, 27x revenue
I completely agree, these numbers are ridiculous, but they're par for the course for the IPO market
Ridiculous yes, but in fairness Google successfully diversified/acquired its way into many profitable ventures. Same with Amazon. Lyft, no way.
No to Lyft, would you say the same for Uber?
I disagree. Transportation as a Service is an absolutely enormous opportunity and Uber / Lyft are the only players of scale in N.A.. Ridesharing accounts for less than 1% of total miles traveled and is expected to continue to gain share as urbanization trends continue and fewer consumers purchase cars. To add to the strong tailwinds, these businesses are easily scale-able, are household names, and the ridesharing aspect is only the beginning of the overall platform.
This is the best stance for why it may not be overpriced i've seen.
peace
Question for you: If you own a car, are you planning to sell it and do all future car travel via ridesharing? Or do you know anyone who does own a car with such plans?
If the answer to either or both questions is "no" then the actual TAM is smaller than Lyft and Uber would have you believe.
A. Look at car ownership trends B. Look at urbanization trends
The investment thesis isn't that everyone drops car ownership and/or strictly uses ridesharing. It's a $1.2 trillion industry that is in the early stages of a dramatic disruption - a marginal shift towards ridesharing is a substantial $ value. Once Uber / Lyft controls the customer, they can pivot into several other segments within the TaaS market.
peace
I'm sure that's all true, but I'm also pretty sure you live in one of 5 cities in the country where the pros and cons of car ownership line up that way. Yellow cabs are "transportation as a service" and they have been for 100 years. You're basically making the argument that Lyft and Uber can replace traditional taxis. Probably right. But that's a way smaller TAM.
Imagine a piece of furniture or cooking appliance in your apartment that you rarely use, but find very convenient when you do. Now imagine that I told you you could sell it and whenever you wanted it pull up an app on your phone, order it, and get it delivered to your door in 5-10 minutes. Over a lifetime of ownership that little bit of friction and delay for every transaction far exceeds the cost of outright ownership.
Bubble of epic proportions far worse than the dot com bubble one. When it pops Bay Area craters tremendously. So much pension money lost.
Read in the WSJ yesterday that they are burning roughly $800MM on a quarterly basis...
Not sure of a bubble but there's no way in hell I'd put money into this
I feel like the US economy needs to speed up rapidly to drastically shift the way we do things for this stuff to really make sense.
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