Fallback Thursday – Tesla (TSLA) Down 10% Already – Where Will Reality Strike Next?

Wheee, what a ride!  

Tesla stock hit peak stupidity Tuesday at $550 per share in mid-day action but it finished the day at $530 and, this morning, we're down to $500 after I ranted about it in our Weekly Webinar (we are short TSLA).  No, I don't think I caused it – I think Tesla, having kissed a $100Bn market cap, had a run-in with reality two weeks ahead of an earnings report that will theoretically show them making $150M for the Quarter (though I think they miss), which is still a run rate of $600M for 2020 or 1/166.6 of $100Bn.  

Even if you assume amazing growth on the top and bottom line, it will be 2025 before you could concievably be close to justifying $100Bn – even if every Musk fanboy's wildest fantasies come true.  I REALITY though, there ARE real, live other car companies and real, live other battery companies and real, live other solar panel makers who run real, live businesses with real, live profits and NONE of them come close to the kind of valuations given to TSLA who, so far, have proven to LOSE money in all 3 of those ventures. 

See – I'm still ranting.  These guys just annoy me!  

I mean, seriously, TSLA is delivering about 100,000 cars in Q4 and about 350,000 cars for the year while Nissan delivers 350,000 cares PER QUARTER – and they are in 5th place in US Sales (where Tesla only sold 36,000 cars as the rest are global sales).  This is part of the problem traders have as they don't differentiate numbers when they hear about Tesla's "amazing" market share.  It's not amazing at all – it's only slightly better than Volvo in the US and, internationally, Volvo kicks their ass!

Yet TSLA is now valued twice as high as all of them, except Toyota (TM) at $200Bn, perhaps because they sell more than 50 TIMES more cars than TSLA in the US and 100 TIMES more cars than TSLA world-wide or maybe it's because TM MAKES $20Bn a year while TSLA loses $1Bn.  JUST the Prius sold 500,00 units in 2019 – mostly to Uber drivers...

Nonetheless, TSLA is just our poster…

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