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We recently published a list of These 10 Stocks Moved the Market This Week, Here’s Why. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) stands against other stocks that moved the market this week.
The stock market edged lower week-on-week, as cautious investors repositioned their portfolios ahead of the United States and China’s high-stakes negotiations on trade policies that have for months dented global economies.
On a week-on-week basis, the Dow Jones was down by 0.16 percent, the S&P 500 dropped 0.47 percent, while the Nasdaq dipped by 0.27 percent.
Beyond the major indices, 10 companies bucked a wider market decline, with gains skyrocketing in just a week’s trading.
In this article, we name the 10 top-performing companies this week and the primary reasons that bolstered their gains.
To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with a $2-billion market capitalization and $5-million trading volume.
The stocks were chosen based on the highest percentage increase in closing prices on May 9 as against their prices a week earlier, or on May 2.
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Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT)
Lyft Inc. grew its share prices by 31.62 percent week-on-week, to end at $16.65 on Friday versus the $12.65 a week earlier after swinging to profitability in the first three months of the year.
According to Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT), it achieved a net income of $2.6 million during the period, a reversal from the $31.5 million net loss in the same period last year, as revenues grew by 13.5 percent to $1.45 billion from $1.277 billion year-on-year.
Gross bookings also grew by 12.7 percent to $4.28 billion from $3.69 billion in the same comparable period, supported by the increase in the number of active riders and ridership.
For the second quarter, Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) expects ridership to grow by mid-teens, as well as gross bookings to settle between $4.41 billion and $4.57 billion, or a 10 to 14 percent growth year-on-year.
“With our expansion into new demographics via Lyft Silver and into Europe with our planned FREENOW acquisition, we’re putting all the pieces in place for sustained, market-leading performance,” said Lyft, Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT) CEO David Risher.
Overall, LYFT ranks 4th on our list of stocks that moved the market this week. While we acknowledge the potential of LYFT as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than LYFT but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.