Tesla So Much Attention, So Few Cars!

[AdvancingTime]

When Tesla's stock drops in value the company will have to give up far more to procure the funds to feed its massive cash-burn. To clarify, Tesla is in a capital-intensive business and has a poor record as to spending efficiently. It is amazing that the company garners so much attention while producing so few cars.

In January 2016, Ford Motor sold 173,723 vehicles. This is far more than the 50,580 Tesla is said to have delivered in all of 2015. Ford with its current market cap of 45 billion dollars is a solid cash machine banging out solid profits and big dividends. This makes it hard to understand how Tesla that is spending big and burning cash has a market cap of over 21 billion dollars or around 42% of its much greater competitor.

Just how small is Tesla's footprint? The math shows only about 1 in 325 cars sold in America last year was a Tesla and of the over 250 million registered passenger vehicles in America only 1 in 5,000 sports its name. This brings into question why investors value its stock at such a high premium, more below.

Advancing Time: Tesla So Much Attention, So Few Cars!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Tesla wouldn't survive w/o subsidies. The entire company is a joke

 

[sjay]

Tesla wouldn't survive w/o subsidies. The entire company is a joke

With low gas prices Tesla is in trouble, wasn't aware of any subsidies got a link for the subsidies?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Tesla wouldn't survive w/o subsidies. The entire company is a joke

With low gas prices Tesla is in trouble, wasn't aware of any subsidies got a link for the subsidies?

Tesla Is Hemorrhaging Money Despite Billions In Gov’t Subsidies

 

[william the wie]

Not my field but I get a lot of feedback at other sites that capacitors are overtaking batteries in the race to design "green" sports cars for the idle rich.

 

[saveliberty]

Tesla is being shorted at the moment. The group doing it shorted GoPro to a 75% decline.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, we will see how Tesla does with their new battery facility.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Tesla competes in the luxury car market, but they do not make luxury cars. They need to be competing against regular cars, and they'll come closer to doing that in 2017 when the model 3 comes out. That is their first mass production vehicle.

It's stupid to compare the number of cars Tesla sells to Ford. The cheapest Tesla starts at over $100,000. The cheapest Ford starts at like $15,000.

The Model 3 is supposed to be around $35k.

 

[Zander]

None of Elon Musk's companies are profitable.

Solar city - losing money every year.
Tesla - losing over $4,000 per car
Spacex - is a private company - lost money every year since inception. - may finally turn a profit on 2016? hard to say since their financials are not published.....

Elon Musk has made a fortune for himself. His investors....not so much.

 

[shadow355]

Nothing says luxury car like Jaguar.

2nd Place is Audi.

Shadow 355

 

[eddiew]

Tesla competes in the luxury car market, but they do not make luxury cars. They need to be competing against regular cars, and they'll come closer to doing that in 2017 when the model 3 comes out. That is their first mass production vehicle.

It's stupid to compare the number of cars Tesla sells to Ford. The cheapest Tesla starts at over $100,000. The cheapest Ford starts at like $15,000.

The Model 3 is supposed to be around $35k.[/QUOTE
time to short tsla

 

[IsaacNewton]

Tesla Sales Growth vs Historical Porsche Sales Growth

Ford Motor company sales started in 1903, Tesla in 2008. To even be comparing them means Tesla has already blown the roof off the place.

Check the link, for those who can't read it has pretty pictures and graphs. With the introduction of the Model 3 noted above Tesla sales will start skyrocketing. Even selling cars for 100k they had success.

The real question is why would any American root against a great American company?

 

[Zander]

Tesla is so successful they have only lost $50,000 per car! They are like Obama - leading from behind.


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[Bleipriester]

I wonder what Tesla´s problem with the electric cars is. About 10 years ago I read an interview with a BYD figure (Chinese company, world´s biggest cell phone battery manufacturer, world´s biggest e-car manufacturer), who was asked why the company is not going to make big business with conventional motors and he replied that electric cars are much more simple than modern cars with Otto motors and the company couldn´t (they do since years). Sure, BYD failed to enter the US and EU market big time but this all raises the question why Tesla´s development is that expensive. Is Tesla just incapable?