If the Cyberwhistle "Smart Summons" your Tesla does that justify the its existence?
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Elon Musk Urges Customers to Buy 'Tesla Cyberwhistle' Instead of Apple Polishing Cloth
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The man sold $5 Billion in stocks just to pay his taxes! If that's not F U money, I don't know what is.
Could be happening much sooner than people expect. Tesla's operating leverage is incredible. They went from $700 Million in profit last year to estimated $5-6 Billion in profit this year. That is a 600-700% profit growth on a revenue gain of ~50%.
We could very well see $15 Billion - $20 Billion in profit next year, and at that point, it'll be obvious to everyone that Tesla is a huge cash cow that Apple could only dream of becoming. Investors will front-run and push the stock price higher when the narrative becomes incredibly obvious. 2021 was a small glimpse of Tesla's operating leverage. 2022 and 2023 will be the great awakening of investors to the new reality - This is Tesla's world.
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The market isn’t growing, so that cash cow will go on a diet once other entrants start pumping out competitive product.
Wrong. Sales will pick up as people look to replace their ICE vehicles. Most of them will move to Tesla.
The competitors will continue shoveling out crap like the ID3 or that ugly Toyota BZ-whatever.
Yep you're right Apple can only dream of making a $20 Billion profit in a year ??I think you may be a little deluded
You think Tesla is going to just stop at $20 Billion profit? Newsflash - They're still in the beginning stages of growth. Next year, their sales will be ~1.5 million. What do you think is going to happen when they hit 5 million and their operating margins hit 25% with a $50K ASP?
I think a lot depends on what you're being a smartass about?
I happen to agree with the bulk of what Elon complains about.... from ridiculously high taxes out in California to silly, overpriced products like the Apple cleaning cloth.
It's not so much what Elon is saying. It's the fact that he's worth $300 billion and on-track to become the first trillionaire that upsets people so much.
Every millionaire I know got to where they did because they concentrated their wealth into 1 asset - either their business or in 1 stock.
I'm very well prepared to eat my words and lose everything, but I have such large faith in this company. I've studied Tesla, its competitive advantage, and its competitors, and I truly believe that Tesla will become the Standard Oil of the 21st century with market cap, revenue and profit figures that seem incomprehensible today.
I believe we are still in the bottom of a parabolic upwards movement for Tesla stock. As it continues climbing, people will continue to claim how it's a bubble that'll pop any moment now. Unless the fundamentals change, I'm not selling my TSLA shares ever.
I do hope the best for you, just 10k would be a big investment for me so I admire that you were able to invest so much
What soon to be released examples do you have? Tesla has name recognition and perceived as a premium product. What are the alternatives? The eMini, Bolt, and LEAF? Even if they were able to make a non-exploding model that got 300 miles per charge they would still be Zunes against the iPhone.
Dog whistle.
If *anyone* buys it then 1) he’s a hypocrite, and 2) some Tesla owners are just as stupid.
If *anyone* buys it then 1) he’s a hypocrite, and 2) some Tesla owners are just as stupid.
Every other automaker will just be building "Tesla killer" like how smartphone companies have been building "iPhone killer". They've been building these -killers for a decade but no one seemed to succeed at actually doing so. As Tesla, as a company, gets bigger, Tesla as an EV gets more complicated, it'll be exponentially harder to catch up with Tesla. For now, they are just motors with laptop batteries. Other multi-billion dollar companies haven't been able to make better ones. It'll soon be giga-factories producing low-cost million-mile batteries with working FSD enclosed in lightweight giga-pressed aluminum and state-of-the-art paints. If they couldn't catch up so far, what would make them be able to catch up later?
Except no ... because people buy all this limited edition stuff Tesla puts out for the collector value. Everything they've ever sold like this, from the Tesla Tequila to the flamethrower fetch far more than the original asking price, months later.
$10,000 invested in Ford Motor Company at the beginning of the year would be worth around $23,300 today. The same $10,000 invested in Tesla would be worth around $15,300. Ford for the win!
Of course, Lucid's (with expected sales of less than 600 units in 2021) stock performance this year beat them all by quite a bit.....but will it last?
Although growing nicely, BEV sales still remain a small percentage of the overall car market. There is plenty of time for companies new and old to come in and capture significant pieces of that barely touched pie. Tesla may currently be the dominant player in BEVs (just as Netscape had once been the dominant player in browsers, Nokia had once been the dominant player in cell phones, etc.) but things can change pretty quickly and not necessarily favorably for first mover companies like Tesla.
People investing in other car companies are just upset they missed out on TSLA. Just because Tesla has a great brand, has great margins, and is scaling rapidly doesn't mean other companies are going to do the same. I said the same thing about Nio early this year - Look what that stock has done this year.