jetcityimage To begin, I must confess that I am an outsider regarding Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) although I have taken an interest in its products and a beneficial ownership in its stock. I am not partial to any information that the public is not aware of, moreover, I have not memorized the latest delivery figures or…
Kirk Fisher Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) had a tough start to the year as its shares have depreciated by ~30% YTD as a result of the weak performance of its business that was caused by a tough macro environment and increased competition within the electric vehicle (“EV”) industry. The company’s poor deliveries in Q1 have already…
Gary Yeowell Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) announced its financial results for Q1 2024, and in this article, I review the results in light of the framework I laid out in my earnings preview titled, “Tesla’s Q1 Results Will Be Riveting, But Let’s Focus On What Matters,” in which I recommended investors to Hold Tesla stock into…
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Richard Drury Article Thesis The electric vehicle industry appeals to many investors, but one company – Tesla (TSLA) – is getting most of the attention, partially due to ambitious goals when it comes to developing autonomous driving vehicles and robotaxis. But there are many other EV companies that could be of interest to investors as…
Richard Drury Investment Thesis For a long time, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has dominated the electric vehicle market. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, the company has invested a lot of money into technologies like self-driving cars, which has paid off in vehicle sales. In the Western Hemisphere, Tesla is still the biggest electric vehicle seller. However,…
georgeclerk/E+ via Getty Images End of January this year, I published an article on Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) outlining a rather bearish case, where it boiled down to just too rich valuations for the situation in the underlying fundamentals. Already back then, the Q4, 2023 results indicated several signs of a more challenging road ahead with…
3alexd/iStock via Getty Images Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has faced a tough year with slower EV demand in the U.S. and higher competition in China. The big hope for shareholders is that Elon Musk will fulfill the promise to turn a fleet of Tesla’s into robotaxis allowing the company to earn large fees. My investment thesis is…
Xiaolu Chu Background 2024 has not been kind to Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), the maker of electric automobiles which bulls like to brand as primarily a tech company. While the broader S&P 500 (SP500, SPY) has returned 10% year-to-date, Tesla’s stock has fallen by nearly 30%. Tesla vs SPY, YTD (Koyfin) The dismal performance this year…
greenbutterfly In the Year To Date (YTD), Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is the worst-performing stock in the Nasdaq 100-Index (NDX in index form and QQQ in ETF form). The company’s line item performance in first-order (i.e., Year-on-Year) terms indicates that 2023 wasn’t quite as explosive as they were in the past two years. Source: Created by…
jetcityimage Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has had a very difficult year so far. Since the middle of 2023, the company has seen its share price fall almost 45% from the peak in July of 2023. Data by YCharts Today, in this article, I will share where I think Tesla is today, whether the current valuation justifies where…
Sundry Photography One of the worst performing stocks in the markets in recent quarters has been Hertz Global Holdings (NASDAQ:HTZ). The rental car company has seen its shares lose more than half of their value over the past year, hitting a new 52-week low on Monday morning after news that its CEO had resigned. Unfortunately…
Getty Images/Getty Images News The shareholders of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) had a banner year in 2023 in which the stock roughly doubled over the year. TSLA was a proud member of the “Magnificent Seven” that provided approximately two-thirds of the gains in the S&P 500 in 2023. Seeking Alpha Unfortunately, for longer term stockholders, 2024…
Jae Young Ju By Levi at Elliott Wave Trader; Produced with Avi Gilburt. Someone we consider among the preeminent fundamental analysts in the financial world affirms that Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock predominately trades on “sentiment and technicals.” This is our own Lyn Alden. Now, if you dig a bit deeper, you will next discover that…
BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images Preface We’re coming out of the Lunar New Year holidays, which began February 10th, including 8 days of official holidays. This year, there are 240 million people traveling across regions to their natal towns and villages, and many more traveling within a region, for over 470 million trips – China…
Xiaolu Chu Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been given a big boost in recent months which has been ignored by Wall Street. Another major player in the self-driving industry has faced a barrage of safety concerns and will likely scale down its ambitions. GM’s (GM) Cruise had received approval in August to start its round-the-clock robotaxi service…
albertc111/iStock via Getty Images The February 14 SEC filing by Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) indicating CEO Elon Musk has a 20.5% stake in Tesla has been treated by some as significant news. It is not; it is a standard SEC filing which must be done periodically. In fact, in the form that was filed a year…
Ford Lightning Electric Truck RoschetzkyIstockPhoto Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has been contending with what its CEO describes as a “seismic change” in the BEV market over the past six months. The cause? A 20% collapse in BEV prices around the world precipitated by mismatched consumer demand against “a ton of new capacity into one single…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has said Tesla will “immediately” hold an investor vote on whether to move its corporate registration to Texas, after a court judgment in Delaware voided his $56bn pay package. The billionaire posted his…
Robert Way Following Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) (NEOE:TSLA:CA) results for the September quarter, I argued that the U.S. leading EV maker is a Sell, as I have pointed out slowing growth and weakening margins. Since my argument got published, TSLA shares have returned negative 4%, while the S&P 500 gained 13%. Looking ahead to Tesla’s Q4…
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Gerasimov174 We previously covered Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) in October 2023, discussing its decelerating Full Self-Driving (“FSD”) adoption, as demonstrated by the moderating service revenues and declining gross margins. Combined with the reversal in sentiments from the automaker’s impacted electric vehicle (“EV”) revenues and elevated inventory levels, we at that time believed that the stock’s elevated…
Slaven Vlasic Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors head into one of its most important earnings conferences post-market on January 24, given the recent underperformance of TSLA. I upgraded TSLA stock in late October, following the weakness leading into Tesla’s third quarter earnings release. The upgrade was timely, as TSLA bottomed out in early November 2023, staging…
Soulmemoria/iStock via Getty Images Thesis Summary Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has seen its stock go nowhere in the last six months. Though there have been ups and downs, the stock is now similarly priced as it was back in August. Over the last month, Tesla has actually lost over 7%, as the market begins to price in…
RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Investment Thesis The growth of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s position in the electric vehicle (EV) charging market presents a unique investment opportunity. The driving force in this growth is owed to their Supercharger network, which provides users with high-speed, strategically located charging stations. This network can greatly decrease anxiety around vehicle…
Xiaolu Chu Introduction: Tesla Is Still Trailing Its Big Tech Peers, Can It Catch Up In 2024? Amid a sharp decline in interest rates, Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock has handsomely outperformed its big tech peers since 30th October 2023 as you can observe on the chart below. In my view, the interest rate-sensitive nature of…
Charging Up An Electric Car At Night solarseven Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:TSLA) has suffered a major decline in profitability over the last 12 months. In that period, it delivered $19 billion in gross profit on $96 billion in revenue. In 2022, it did $20.8 billion in gross profit on $81.4 billion in revenue, meaning that gross…
Roman Tiraspolsky Tesla, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Cybertruck met a lot of contention from investors when it was first being brought to market. CEO Elon Musk announced that the electric vehicle (“EV”) would not be profitable until around 2025. Pilot production of the vehicles has begun at Tesla’s Gigafactory, but there are concerns about the Cybertruck generating…
Trygve Finkelsen I follow BYD Company (OTCPK:BYDDF) and Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) very closely, as I believe their market leadership would likely shape the EV industry’s direction in the medium- and long term. I used to invest in BYD but decided to take profits in 2022 to reallocate my capital to diversify my risks away from…
Bitcoin has become one of the top 10 assets in the world by market cap. This places it higher than Tesla, Visa, and Berkshire Hathaway stock. Crypto watchers might remember that a few years ago, Bitcoin was declared the top-performing asset of the 2010s, even beating out competitors like gold and stocks like Apple Inc…
Leonhard Simon/Getty Images News Article Thesis BYD (OTCPK:BYDDY) (OTCPK:BYDDF) is an electric vehicle maker that is, I believe, in several ways advantaged versus Tesla (TSLA). While it does not get the hype and attention Tesla gets, it is growing at a much faster rate, has better control over the supply chain, and trades at a…
sarawuth702 The market has been roaring over the past few weeks with interest rate fears quelling. And while most tech and growth stocks have surged dramatically (and some, like Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), have hit new all-time highs), one major holdout from the party are electric vehicle (“EV”) stocks, and in particular, Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA). Since…
peterschreiber.media It’s a rough time in the EV auto space. Tesla (TSLA), specifically, has endured significant selling pressure following strong rallies earlier this year. Fundamentally, lower sticker prices for the firm’s vehicles is certainly a worrisome trend – and that is seen in softer quarterly sales trends. Still, a ‘volume over price’ strategy could be…
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images News Tesla (TSLA) reported its fair share of troubles for the third-quarter, including a concerning short term margin trend that reflected the company’s aggressive pricing measures. However, one electric vehicle company that is absolutely crushing it right now is Chinese car brand BYD (OTCPK:BYDDF). I believe BYD will soon be able to…
As a result of all the challenges faced by Tesla, its long-time partner Panasonic is also bearing losses. It has lowered its full-year operating profit forecast for its battery unit to ¥115 billion ($771 million) from ¥135 billion, as the demand for Tesla EVs in North America slowed down. Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) have…
Nathan Howard Tesla, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) weak performance in Q3 indicates that the company is no longer a no-brainer investment in the current environment, which is full of macroeconomic and geopolitical risks that have already begun to negatively affect the company’s business in different markets. Even though Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk tried to soften the blow…
gremlin/E+ via Getty Images We previously covered Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) in July 2023, discussing the stock’s premium valuations and optimistic recovery since the January 2023 bottom. It appeared that Mr. Market had been convinced about CEO Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving [FSD] as a SaaS (Software as a Service) strategy, since the automakers’ Service gross margins…
Ales_Utovko Late last year, I detailed how rental car giant Hertz (NASDAQ:HTZ) could be in a tough spot moving forward. I was worried about the rise in interest rates along with drops in vehicle pricing, and the stock has lost almost half of its value since. Thursday morning, we received quarterly results from the company,…
Nathan Howard I cautioned Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors in my previous article in August to be wary, even as it surged into its July 2023 highs, which has panned out accordingly. I reminded holders that TSLA was still “slightly overvalued,” and its price action wasn’t favorable, as it didn’t offer an optimal entry zone. However,…
nadla The month-long United Automobile Workers (UAW) strike should be music to Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) ears, according to Ford (F) executive chairman Bill Ford. The strike has resulted in headwinds for the auto industry as it ties up the production for Tesla and Toyota’s rival auto manufacturers like Ford and General Motors (GM)….
Tesla continues to hold on to its BTC holding having last sold about 75% of it in the second quarter of 2022. It has now been five consecutive quarters that electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has left its sizable Bitcoin (BTC) holdings untouched. That is despite recently spending greatly towards improving its artificial…
Despite Tesla missing the mark, the company’s revenue grew by 9 percent YoY to $23.4 billion fueled by growth in vehicle deliveries. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares closed Wednesday trading at $242.68, down 4.78 percent from the day’s opening price. The TSLA losses continued during the extended trading period with a drop of about 4.24…
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Aleksandr Potashev/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis XPEL (NASDAQ:XPEL) has been an outstanding performer over the last decade. The company specializes in a highly specific niche, focusing on products like Paint Protection Film. While they’ve had past success, the rising popularity of these products could cause that car manufacturers, who are presently clients of XPEL,…
Various Tesla Models Charging At The Company’s Super-Chargers Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) may no longer be valued at a trillion dollars, but its share price still implies that it is worth close to the entire rest of the global car manufacturers combined. To justify this valuation, the company would need to not…
Tesla has cut prices after it announced a slowdown in deliveries. The company said the decline was caused by factory upgrades. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has reduced US prices of its Model Y and Model 3 cars following third-quarter delivery figures that did not meet expectations. According to the company’s website, the starting price for the…
Sky_Blue Since I last detailed the energy storage division of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) in my article in April, the pace of development has continued ever more rapidly. Demand for the company’s commercial and residential energy products continues to surge. Tesla’s manufacturing capacity continues to be increased rapidly but may never be able to keep up with…
Milan Markovic/E+ via Getty Images We’re upgrading Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) to a hold from a sell. We continue to be cautious about the auto industry in 2H23 but expect Tesla will fare better than the peer group in Q4 2023 and 1H24 with its model 3 and Y upgrades. Our previous concerns about the company’s…
The downtime for the Tesla factory upgrades caused the decline in production and deliveries of electric vehicles in the third quarter compared to the second and first quarters. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares closed Monday trading at $251.60, up 0.55 percent from the day’s opening price. The slight gain added to the impressive YTD performance…
Дмитрий Ларичев Mega cap tech was hit hard on Fed Day, and the group has given back some of its Q3 gains. Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) has likewise pared recent gains following a sharp mid-August to early September advance. I am downgrading the YieldMax TSLA Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:TSLY) from a buy to a hold…