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Tesla IncTSLADON'T BUYFeb 10, 2017Stock price when the opinion was issued
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He's removing this from the Magnificent 7. It's fallen 16% year to date while all its peers have gained, especially Nvidia. Sales are flagging in China where a Chinese company is overtaking them. Meanwhile, US demand may be peaking. Also consider the declining value of their cards. The EV space is challenged unless Musk develops a battery that lasts twice as long as a gas car tank.
It has been a tough year with cost over-runs along with having to reduce prices and therefore margins. The growth rate is slowing down. It expects to produce 1.8 million vehicles this year and could be falling behind other EV producers, There is intellectual value in their chargers as well as solar and battery technology, but most of their revenue today comes from their production of EV vehicles.
As a value investor, he would never own this. It has no earnings and no value. With this company, you are buying a long-term concept stock, and the concept is electric cars and lithium batteries. His question is, is electric vehicles the way things are going to go. Probably in the long run. His 2nd question is will this company be a market winner in that period or are the big guys that are currently out there going to dominate the electric business, and this one is going to have to roll over and go away. Because of this, he would not be investing in this.