News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings. Parent comment

Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by adventured on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:28PM (#19855637)
> Lyft have half a billion dollars in cash on hand, however, which will only last another 6 quarters at this rate.

I don't believe the balance sheet they're showing for Mar 31, 2019 includes the ~$2.2b in cash they just raised from the IPO. I can't get the figures to add up if it does. From the Q4 balance + the IPO cash, they'd have ~$4.2b in cash, then subtract what they burned in the latest quarter (they obviously didn't burn $3.6b in cash in Q1).

Besides that, the Q1 balance sheet is showing $1.03b in cash on hand, not half a billion dollars (I'm not sure where you're coming up with that figure). I believe their actual cash position was closer to $3.2b as of the end of Q1, including the IPO cash.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings by wweidendorf on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:44AM (#19859952)
You are correct that the March 31 figures do not include the IPO proceeds. If you take a look at the Q1'19 supplemental deck that Lyft released with their earnings, you will find a cash reconciliation as if their IPO had occurred on the last day of the quarter.

It will be on page 21 of the following document: https://investor.lyft.com/static-files/19f2bd14-9b3c-4b85-9f...

[ Parent | on HN ]