lyft inc said tuesday that it met its goal of fullyear positive ebitda and that its fourth quarter was “solid” but its outlook for the current quarter weighed on its stock in afterhours trading chief financial officer elaine paul said on her first earnings call with the company that although lyft’s ride volume reached a pandemic high during the fourth quarter she expects firstquarter volume to fall slightly because of the omicron variant’s effects on rides demand lyft lyft shares fell as much as 65 after hours after rising 54 in the regular session to close at 4120 lyft said it had adjusted ebitda of 747 million slightly beating analysts’ expectation of 74 million the company said it had 1874 million riders in the quarter a 492 increase year over year but short of analysts’ expectations of 202 million riders lyft’s revenue per rider was 5179 above the 4650 per rider analysts had expected the ridehailing company reported a fourthquarter net loss of 2586 million or 75 cents a share compared with a loss of 4582 million or 143 a share in the yearago period adjusted for stockbased compensation and insuranceliability expenses earnings were 321 million or 9 cents a share compared with an adjusted net loss of 1853 million in the yearago period revenue rose to 9699 million from 5699 million in the yearago quarter analysts surveyed by factset had forecast earnings of 8 cents a share on revenue of 9414 million for the full year the company reported a loss of 101 billion or 302 a share on revenue of 321 billion that compares with a 175 billion loss the previous year analysts had expected an adjusted loss of 20 cents a share on revenue of 318 billion lyft expects firstquarter revenue in the range of 800 million to 850 million a decline from the previous quarter the company expects adjusted ebitda of between 5 million and 15 million compared with 75 million in the fourth quarter analysts had forecast earnings of 7 cents a share on revenue of 9803 million shares of lyft have fallen 435 so far this year while the sp 500 index spx has decreased 525