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Pony AI Inc. American Depositary Shares

$PONY·$2.9B·Software - Application·Technology
$8.14-2.3%YTD-46.3%1Y-46.3%
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POPONY
$PONYPony AI Inc. American Depositary Shares
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $PONY, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Hinges on a big eventAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-15

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

US-listed Chinese robotaxi operator that just landed a 2,000-vehicle Uber Europe partnership — Monday's Q2 print now has real news to metabolize.

Pony AI is one of the few US-listed autonomous-vehicle names with a real deployed fleet, and this week's Uber Europe deal materially expands the addressable market beyond China.

  • Q1 revenue $34.3M, +145% YoY (small base, but the trajectory is inflecting).
  • Uber Europe partnership announced August 13-14: 2,000+ robotaxis to deploy in Europe — an order-of-magnitude larger than current fleet.
  • Q2 earnings August 18, -$0.15 EPS consensus — the print now has to reconcile with the Uber news.
  • Analyst 2027 revenue $316M and 2028 $690M projects the deployment ramp; 2030 estimates of $3.85B and $2.82 EPS represent full commercial-scale robotaxi run-rate.
  • PE -18 is not meaningful; PS 22 is expensive but this is a project-development-stage story.
  • Beta 3.94 — moves are violent in either direction on catalyst news.
  • Stock -46% TTM despite the Uber news — the near-term move (+8% intraday) has not offset the 12-month decline.
  • China regulatory environment for autonomous vehicles remains the primary structural risk; Uber deal partially decouples from that.

The multi-year setup is a bet on autonomous mobility economics and the timeline to commercial scale, with the Uber deal validating both the technology and the pathway.

Agrees with X sentimentThe X take on Pony as a genuine self-driving AI leader was already directionally right, and the Uber Europe partnership announcement (which post-dated most of the chatter) materially strengthens that thesis. Where the bull framing needs a caveat: 2,000 vehicles over multiple years is a real deal but doesn't translate to immediate revenue at scale, and the equity remains highly beta to autonomy narrative shifts.

What to watch: August 18 Q2 earnings — commentary on Uber deployment timeline, Robotruck segment revenue, and cash runway. Any China regulatory changes on autonomous vehicle testing/deployment. Uber news follow-up on European rollout timeline.

On the calendar: Q2 earnings Aug 18

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment5 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-04

Pony AI is described as a hidden gem at ~$3B market cap — one of the few companies with a genuine self-driving AI model that bulls call radical but true. Bear voices essentially absent.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Autonomous vehicle company operating robotaxi and automated trucking services in China and the U.S., with full AV engineering support.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Application sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $PONY.

Software - Application · Technology

No material change from last week — platforms where agents expand contract value (ServiceNow, Snowflake) are re-rated upward, while tools where agents substitute human users (Adobe Creative..

What this means for $PONY

Partial — Autonomous vehicle company operating robotaxi and automated trucking services in China and the U.S., with full AV engineering support; partial earnings exposure to rental & leasing services demand dynamics through its product portfolio.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-4.2%YTD
-3.9%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-18.4How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-15.6%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-239%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-9.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
21.9Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-11.5%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
15.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 26, 2026$-0.12$-0.12+1.0%
Q4 2025Mar 26, 2026$-0.12$-0.05-148.3%
Q3 2025Nov 25, 2025$-0.14$-0.20+28.9%
Q2 2025Aug 12, 2025$-0.13——
Next earningsTue, Aug 18·consensus EPS $-0.15

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$34.3M+145.0%16.2%-170%$-0.12—
Q4 FY25$29.3M+16.3%12.7%-254%$0.06$-152.0M
Q3 FY25$25.4M+1.2%18.4%-274%$-0.16$74K
Q2 FY25$21.5M-13.1%16.1%-286%$-0.15$-25.4M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 16 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$148.5M$134.5M – $158.7M-$0.63-$1.23 – -$0.4515
FY27$315.6M$229.2M – $646.6M-$0.61-$1.20 – -$0.4416
FY28$690.0M$540.0M – $1.2B-$0.39-$0.76 – -$0.2814
FY29$1.7B$1.3B – $2.9B$0.29$0.21 – $0.5615
FY30$3.8B$3.0B – $6.7B$2.82$2.02 – $5.5215

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.9×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.10%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+7.1%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-29.8%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 277.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β3.945-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJun 26Ning ZhangPresident17.3K sh$119KSellJun 26Haojun WangCFO13.8K sh$94KSellJun 26Luyi MoPresident14.5K sh$99KSellMar 30Ning ZhangPresident22.9K sh$199KSellMar 30Haojun WangCFO18.3K sh$159KSellMar 30Tian GaoVP, Chief of Staff, GC31.6K sh$274KSellMar 30Luyi MoPresident19.9K sh$173K
+ 20 other (9 exempts · 8 awards · 2 returns · 1 other) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 313
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 183
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europetechcrunch.com·1d agoChina's Pony.ai, Uber to jointly deploy over 2,000 robotaxis in Europereuters.com·2d agoUber partners with China's Pony.ai for 2,000 robotaxis in Europecnbc.com·2d agoPony.ai and Uber Expand Partnership to Deploy Over 2,000 Robotaxis in Europeprnewswire.com·2d agoPony.ai and Uber Expand Partnership to Deploy Over 2,000 Robotaxis in Europeprnewswire.com·2d ago

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