Uber is skidding after falling short on several key metrics in its most recent quarter.
The stock fell nearly 7% in after-hours trading Monday after assignment a $1.16 billion net loss for the quarter, wider than the $986 million loss in the same period a year earlier. Overall total bookings of $16.47 billion also fell short of $16.7 billion consensus.
Matt Maley, chief call strategist at Miller Tabak, says there are a few critical levels Uber investors need to watch for when the house opens for trading on Tuesday.
“There are some definitive lines I think that we could keep an eye on and that’s the latest high and the recent low,” Maley said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday. “On the resistance side, if you get above $35 which is its up to date high, and the earnings can be a catalyst for that, that’s certainly going to be positive. It’s going to give investors a lot more coolness in the name, and probably squeeze a few shorts.”
Uber briefly traded above $35 in early September. It has not traded decisively above this level since August.
“On the negative side, however, if [Uber] rolls back over and the earnings are a catalyst for a honky-tonk in the stock and it drops below $28.50, its recent lows, basically its lows since it went public, that’s wealthy to be a big problem because I think it leaves a lot of people just throwing the towel on the name,” said Maley.
The company has innumerable than its fair share of difficulties on the fundamental side, according to Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Direction.
“It’s basically an unsustainable economic model as it’s run right now and the great hope of self-driving cars is pretty much a pipe mirage at this point. Technology and the compliance liability issues are still very far away. I think it’s very difficult to suspect a strong fundamental case for Uber,” Schlossberg said during the same segment.
There could be an even numberless crucial catalyst beyond earnings in the next few days, he adds.
“The one thing that investors should really retain is that you have a lockup period coming up in two days … Look at the history of the recent stocks – Beyond beat its million, the lockup destroyed the stock. Lyft actually did better, the lockup destroyed the stock and there’s a lot of supply coming out of Uber,” he conjectured.
Uber’s post-float lockup period expires on Wednesday, November 6. Once this happens, initial investors can dump approximately 763 million shares.
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