{"id":13317,"date":"2024-02-13T23:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/lyft-stock-soars-thanks-to-taylor-swift-beyonce-and-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:38:02","slug":"lyft-stock-soars-thanks-to-taylor-swift-beyonce-and-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/lyft-stock-soars-thanks-to-taylor-swift-beyonce-and-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyft stock soars thanks to Taylor Swift, Beyonc\u00e9 and layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rides to stadiums for music tours and sports events grew more than 35% in 2023 as company underwent an aggressive restructure<\/p>\n<p>Lyft beat estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday and said it would generate positive free cash flow for the first time in 2024, as the ride-share platform reaps the benefits of heavy cost cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Company shares surged nearly 60% in extended trading but erased a third of those gains after the CFO corrected a major mistake in the earnings report. Erin Brewer had said that the company would grow by 500 basis points (5%) in 2024, but later said that the real increase would be a factor of 10 lower \u2013 50 basis points (0.5%). In 2023, the stock gained about 36%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/13\/lyft-fourth-quarter-profits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9ce2bb75b963afb22d7b866df591ede302eb8b55\/0_60_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6380c9b66a9c1b558bb934fd6ff84bf9\" title=\"Lyft stock soars thanks to Taylor Swift, Beyonc\u00e9 and layoffs\" \/>Rides to stadiums for music tours and sports events grew more than 35% in 2023 as company underwent an aggressive restructure<br \/>\nLyft beat estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday and said it would generate positive free cash flow for the first time in 2024, as the ride-share platform reaps the benefits of heavy cost cuts.<br \/>\nCompany shares surged nearly 60% in extended trading but erased a third of those gains after the CFO corrected a major mistake in the earnings report. Erin Brewer had said that the company would grow by 500 basis points (5%) in 2024, but later said that the real increase would be a factor of 10 lower \u2013 50 basis points (0.5%). In 2023, the stock gained about 36%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rides to stadiums for music tours and sports events grew more than 35% in 2023 as company underwent an aggressive restructure Lyft beat estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday and said it would generate positive free cash flow for the first time in 2024, as the ride-share platform reaps the benefits of heavy cost cuts. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/lyft-stock-soars-thanks-to-taylor-swift-beyonce-and-layoffs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lyft stock soars thanks to Taylor Swift, Beyonc\u00e9 and layoffs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}