Uber Exits Nigeria and Uganda Operations Immediately

Revelation News Editorial DeskSeptember 2, 2026

Source Summary

Uber has shut down its operations in Nigeria and Uganda effective immediately. The move reflects challenges the ride-hailing company faces in African markets, with Nigeria noted as Africa's most populous country presenting particular difficulties for ride-hailing services.

Why it matters

Uber's withdrawal from two major African markets signals the company's difficulty in achieving profitability in emerging ride-hailing markets with distinct operational challenges.

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Trading trends

The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in Uber Technologies, Inc.

Insider activity sentiment

Leaning bullish

BearishNeutralBullish

2 discretionary purchases · 3 discretionary sales

Confidence: High

Informative buyNon-informative buyInformative sellNon-informative sell

Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
Chief Financial OfficerKrishnamurthy Balaji (A)	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	4,392	—	—	Oct 16, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerKrishnamurthy Balaji (A)	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	2,243	—	—	Oct 16, 2026
See RemarksMacdonald Andrew	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	10,168	—	—	Oct 16, 2026
See RemarksMacdonald Andrew	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	5,684	—	—	Oct 16, 2026
See RemarksWest Tony	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	7,195	—	—	Oct 16, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

Short interest

Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

Earnings

Recent reported earnings per share compared with the analyst consensus available from Nasdaq.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	1,670,761 (0.876%)	192,499,602	$13,295,948	12/31/2025
Blackrock, Inc.	Sell	-5,017,525 (-3.323%)	145,969,768	$10,082,132	6/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Sell	-822,432 (-0.615%)	132,890,128	$9,178,721	6/30/2026
Capital Research Global Investors	Buy	14,322,517 (12.311%)	130,662,156	$9,024,835	6/30/2026
State Street Corp	Sell	-948,312 (-1.046%)	89,691,411	$6,194,986	6/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Sell	-4,221,735 (-5.478%)	72,847,766	$5,031,595	6/30/2026
Public Investment Fund	Unchanged	0 (0%)	72,840,541	$5,031,096	6/30/2026
Geode Capital Management, Llc	Sell	-2,069,856 (-4.323%)	45,812,652	$3,164,280	6/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Sell	-3,664,296 (-9.614%)	34,448,091	$2,379,330	6/30/2026
Pershing Square Inc.	Buy	34,326,200 (New)	34,326,200	$2,370,911	6/30/2026
Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.	Sell	-248,963 (-0.824%)	29,958,771	$2,069,252	3/31/2026
Norges Bank	Sell	-4,074,500 (-13.237%)	26,706,242	$1,844,600	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Sep 30, 2026	48,754,152	17,486,658	+6.64%	2.79
Sep 15, 2026	45,718,444	19,610,779	+1.32%	2.33
Aug 31, 2026	45,121,710	15,252,967	-2.75%	2.96
Aug 14, 2026	46,397,214	23,631,334	-2.13%	1.96
Jul 31, 2026	47,409,310	17,873,062	-8.55%	2.65
Jul 15, 2026	51,841,219	13,549,632	-7.57%	3.83
Jun 30, 2026	56,087,568	27,159,674	+1.91%	2.07
Jun 15, 2026	55,038,495	20,384,666	-10.03%	2.70

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Jun 2026	Aug 5, 2026	1.17	0.83	+40.96%
Mar 2026	May 6, 2026	0.72	0.7	+2.86%
Dec 2025	Feb 4, 2026	0.71	0.79	-10.13%
Sep 2025	Nov 4, 2025	3.11	0.67	+364.18%

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