NYSE$UP

Wheels Up Experience Inc · Q1 2024 earnings

Q1 2024 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Wheels Up reported first quarter results, delivering continued operational performance improvements and positioned for long-term profitable growth.

Wheels Up's Q1 2024 revenue decreased by $155 million year-over-year to $197 million, with nearly half the decrease due to exiting the aircraft management and aircraft sale businesses. Net loss improved slightly year-over-year to $97 million, and Adjusted EBITDA was relatively flat at a loss of $49 million. The company saw sequential improvement in March, which is continuing into the second quarter, driven by rebalancing the revenue mix, reducing the cost structure, and improving operational execution.

  • Total Revenue decreased $155 million year-over-year to $197 million, nearly half of which was due to exiting the aircraft management and aircraft sale businesses.
  • Adjusted Contribution decreased $4 million year-over-year to $2 million.
  • Net loss improved slightly year-over-year to $97 million.
  • Adjusted EBITDA was relatively flat year-over-year at a loss of $49 million.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$197M

Previous: $352M-44.0%
EPS

-$0.14

Previous: -$3.10+95.5%
Total Gross Bookings

$225M

No prior period
Private Jet Gross Bookings

$192M

No prior period
Live Flight Legs

11.8K

Previous: 15.4K-23.6%
Utility

30.9

No prior period
Completion Rate

98.0%

No prior period
On-Time Performance (D-60)

90.0%

No prior period
Adjusted EBITDA

-$49.2M

No prior period
Capital Expenditures

-$4.02M

Previous: -$8.75M+54.0%
Free Cash Flow

-$101M

Previous: -$110M+7.5%
Net Income

-$97.4M

Previous: -$101M+3.4%
Operating Income

-$82.6M

Previous: -$96.7M+14.6%
Gross Profit

-$1.16M

Previous: -$1.98M+41.4%
Cash & Equivalents

$181M

Previous: $363M-50.2%
Total Assets

$1.18B

Previous: $1.71B-30.9%
R&D Expense

$11.1M

No prior period
Stock-Based Comp

$11.2M

Previous: $11.5M-2.8%

Revenue & EPS history

Wheels Up · Revenue · Quarterly

$197M

Q1 2024-44%vs Q1 2023
Beat estimate in 3 of 10 quarters(30%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

Wheels Up · $267M total across 3 segments · Q3 2023

  • Flight
    $215M-23.0%
  • Other
    $31.6M-47.5%
  • Membership
    $20.6M-8.0%

Forward guidance

Wheels Up expects improvement in its financial profile over the course of the year, driven by rebalancing its revenue mix, reducing its cost structure, and improving its operational execution.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 19 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2024

Historical avgQ1 2024

-3.5%

Avg return

Earnings day

-5.9%

Avg return

5 days after

-6.8%

Avg return

30 days after

36%

8 / 22 earnings

Positive

+34.8%

Q2 2023

Best reaction

-36.2%

Q1 2023

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026+2.8%-16.6%+13.8%
Q4 2025-12.4%-6.1%-28.3%
Q3 2025+5.1%+3.3%-49.6%
Q1 2025-3.5%-7.8%+13.9%
Q4 2024+5.6%+1.9%-25.2%
Q3 2024-7.4%-6.5%-1.4%
Q2 2024-4.9%-9.2%-8.6%
Q1 2024+0.9%+20.2%-9.9%
Q4 2023-12.0%-10.5%-3.3%
Q3 2023-10.0%-10.7%+32.9%
Q2 2023+34.8%+18.8%+137.5%
Q1 2023-36.2%-42.8%-39.4%
Q4 2022-12.2%-24.3%-29.1%
Q3 2022-3.7%-8.0%-36.8%
Q2 2022+10.2%+4.7%-32.5%
Q1 2022+11.7%+21.2%-2.3%
Q4 2021-11.4%-12.0%-11.7%
Q4 2019-11.4%-12.0%-11.7%
Q3 2021-20.9%-20.9%-42.5%
Q2 2021-3.2%-10.2%-11.4%
Q1 2021+0.0%+0.0%-0.1%
Q4 2020+0.4%-2.3%-4.4%
Q3 2020
Q2 2020
Q1 2020

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