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I think Tesla is fairly valued.
Holy hell that really puts things in perspective 😮
Could you explain it to me? (no sarcasm) It seems to be saying that the stock prices are way out of balance to what it's worth. Are there regulations around that?
Edit: I'm talking about the Market Cap part. I don't understand how the value can be that high compared to all of the other companies, especially China.
Market capitalization is just simple math, multiplying a company's stock price by the number of shares that have been issued. Tesla has issued roughly 3.2 billion shares and is currently trading at around $550, which makes their current market cap about $1.75 trillion dollars.
On its face it seems utterly nonsensical that Tesla is worth as much as all other auto makers combined, when Tesla only accounts for something like 5% of total US car sales. There are two reasons I can think of why this is currently so:
Thank you for explaining it so well. I thought that was what it was, but it seems insane to be valued that much higher to investors. Turns out, it probably is insane.
And remember if you want to try to cash in on this information "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
I subscr to the theory that Tesla is valued not as an automotive stock but as a tech stock. Companies like Toyota and VW are valued wildly different from companies like Google and Amazon and tesla has long pushed for everyone to think of it as far more like apple than like Honda, with quite a bit of success. That's why Elon does his whole Tony stark/Steve jobs routine and swears full self driving and other revolutionary tech. Because otherwise you have to look at his vehicles as the gilded Yugos they are that do have some really great aspects, but ones that are now being done by companies like Hyundai that can actually assemble a car well
Rational might be stretching it a bit. There's a reason this is called the Greater Fool Theory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
All of that, plus an additional bit of irrationally, since SpaceX is private, some investors are in Tesla with the idea that some future corporate action will cause Tesla shares to eventually include SpaceX ownership as well.
The entire circle represents total value for all car makers. Area taken up is their ratio of the total. It's geographically colour coded.
Tesla makes a lot more profit per car sold than the other OEMs, and part of the stock price assumed continued growth which would mean even more record profits.
In 2023, Tesla made more net profit than Ford and GM combined on their 1.8m vehicles compared to their 10.6m. Tesla also had really strong growth until this year, and extrapolating the growth and the profits they make led to a higher price. (edit: and in 2022 GM/Ford combined were just slightly above Tesla)
Tesla also has their energy division which is growing rapidly and has better margins than the cars (>100% YoY growth in 2024 and potentially > 100% in 2025)
Nowadays though, it's more on the future potential of FSD/Robotics which is a huge wildcard.
People don't see Ford or GM or Toyota massively expanding so they don't get a higher P/E ratio. In actuality, they've got years of suffering ahead of them during the transition.
Then you have companies like Nissan failing being one of the first domino's in the EV transition, and VW getting destroyed in China causing massive layoffs (25%) and a planned 700k vehicle reduction in 2025.
I'm not saying they deserve the price they have today, but it's more than just cars sold to get to a number, it's looking at future potential.
Yep, no problems here whatsoever.
You need another of these to go with it that shows these companies in terms of revenue.
Seriously, I’d love to see this chart, earnings chart and PE ratio chart to really see the whole picture
I don't have a chart for you but
2023 net profit
Toyota - 31.82b
VW AG- 17.331B
Tesla - 14.999b
BMW - 12.165B
GM - 10.1b
Ford - 4.347B
BYD - 4.16B
Edit: Just to preempt this, yes Tesla is suffering a lot more this year with the EV price wars, for the first 3 quarters, they're at 4.78b this year, whereas GM for example is at 8.97B. GM doesn't make a lot of profits (if any) on their EVs, but they still have ICE vehicles to fall back on whereas Tesla doesn't.
So the graphic shows the overvalued stock as proof of it being fairly valued?
My guess is there’s an invisible /s there
It takes a lot of guts to omit the /s these days. You can never be quite sure who’s funny and who’s just an idiot.
Por que no los both?
I saw it
I think most did
Felt it in me bones
The graphic doesn't draw any conclusions, does it?
Not at all. The billionaire oligarchs are in on the plan. They're using Tesla to get even more rich. They'll pull out/short just before something happens to cause Tesla to lose all it's value.
It's more like a variant game of chicken. The longer everyone stays in the higher the value goes, but once people start bailing you better hope you sold enough for it to be worthwhile. The big investors set the game but they're also the most constrained because if they pull out entirely or quickly they can pop the bubble and they may not be able to sell their shares fast enough to get all their money before shares plummet.
Technically that thing has already happened. Or, is still happening I guess.
Truly Elon is a Savant of our time to build such an incredibly successful company while failing to even capture an appreciable proportion of actual sales. Real "voice of a generation" level shit.
What on Earth are you talking about? Someone posted a thing above that shows Tesla at #3 in profits.That's pretty big. The dude sucks, and he's openly tossing money around trying to influence elections, and he is a known liar and fraud. The company is way overvalued. You don't have to exaggerate and say Tesla fails at selling cars to criticize him.
But Tesla does fail at selling cars. They're an unprofitable company that sells far fewer cars than their bloated valuation justifies.
Nissan conspicuously absent
Nissan and Renault have 15% cross-ownership each. Both are separate entities with separate market caps. The total displayed for Renault does not reflect the total for Nissan.
They must have thrown it into "other" along with Mitsubishi which is also in merger talks with Honda.
Their revenue is about half of Ford's.
Shocked Ferrari is worth more than Volkswagen. I wonder how much of that is F1-related.
Now do one that counts vehicles delivered.
That's ... the stock being overvalued lol