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Tesla IncTSLACOMMENTJan 23, 2018Stock 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.
The cars, concepts, and what they’ve done for the automotive industry has been fantastic. You really have to buy into electric cars and that Tesla is going to have a very dominant position in electric cars and their battery technology. His concern would be that they have been a catalyst for a significant change in the automobile industry, and there have been huge investments by Ford, Chrysler and GM. Everybody is getting into this business, and are catching up. Tesla is not going to always have the dominant lead that they currently have.