(Bloomberg) -Tesla Inc. shares have almost doubled in value since the last time the company reported income a setup that usually forms high expectations for upcoming results. But his car-selling activities have become a side issue of the political fame of Elon Musk.
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A large part of its gigantic market value has been stimulated by the hope that it will be one of the first to develop and market fully self -driving vehicles. Those expectations became Donald Trump’s election victory, because investors bet between Tesla’s Chief Executive Officer and the US President will ignore the road of the cash flow risks of a possible roleback of EV-Stimulans.
It is almost as if the company’s ability to build and sell the cars is no longer counting. Trade on the option market suggests that investors are preparing for a 7% movement in both directions on the Tesla winning report, the fourth quarter, after Wednesday’s market. That would be the smallest swing after the results of the share since October 2022. Shares fell no less than 3.4% on Wednesday, while the wider S&P 500 index fell by 0.9%.
“The market behaves as if Tesla’s results do not matter, and that can fold investors in the case of a large shock,” says David Wagner, portfolio manager at APTUS Capital Advisors. “The electric car business is still around $ 200 billion in market value, but it is still the financing mechanism for many of the actual sideshows.”
The share has added nearly $ 600 billion to its market value since reporting the last quarterly numbers. Nevertheless, in many ways Tesla shares have become a vehicle for investors to bet on Musk, instead of the company. That has advantages, but also forms risks.
On the one hand, the shares are now not hindered by everyday details of growth and profitability. Earlier this month, the EV maker reported the fourth quarter of deliveries that the projections of analysts missed and marked the first decrease in the annual turnover in more than a decade. The stock, which is one of the most detailed appreciated in the S&P 500 index, fell on the day before he returned quickly.
The downside is that Tesla is now vulnerable to the turns of a potentially volatile relationship. Musk openly asked last week whether companies that announced at the Stargate -art intelligence company announced by Trump had the funds to meet promises. Trump and the Republican Party are generally anti-EV and the president has ordered his administration to consider eliminating related subsidies and policy.
That can be a big headache for Tesla, who generated $ 739 million in income in the third quarter of 2024 of the sale of legal credits to car manufacturers who have to meet strict pollution standards. In the quarter before that it won $ 890 million. Barclays analyst Dan Levy estimates that about two-thirds of the American turnover of Tesla, or 20% of global turnover, benefits from EV-tax credits that encourage consumers to buy electric cars. It is not yet clear how the various subsidies and stimuli will be influenced.
“Fundamentals remain secondary compared to the broader theme of the narrative command for Tesla, which has gone in Hydrive since the elections of the American elections last November,” Levy wrote earlier this month in a memorandum to customers. “It is important to note that this movement has very little to do with EVs, because the election catalyst is objectively a negative for EVs.”
The pitfalls of attributing eye-watery valuations to future potentials or now artificial intelligence or robotaxis is in sharp focus on Monday, when the largest American technology shares felt on the fear that the Chinese startup of artificial intelligence deep cleft it Current AI business model could disrupt.
Between $ 500 billion and $ 600 billion of the current market capitalization of Tesla is based on his EV and energy companies, according to Evercore Isi analyst Chris McNally, with the rest attached to efforts on self-driving cars and humanoid robots. Calculations by Nicholas Colas, co-founder of Datatrek Research, show that more than 90% of Tesla’s share price is linked to what the company could do in the future.
Yet some say that the nature of Tesla’s core activities can also protect it against a sudden deep-might-like shock.
“Every company is subject to disruption, but because the automatic production company has a much longer cycle than computer software/hardware, I think the Tesla’s vulnerabilities will take place a little slower,” said Steve Sosnick, main strategist at interactive brokers.
A look at the way in which traders position the Tesla winning report on Wednesday also shows that optimism continues to rule. Citigroup Equity and Derivatenhandel strategist Vishal Vivek estimated that market positioning on options was approximately ‘of the 10 Bullish’.
“Musk can develop a stock rally and only a few words about the conference call, even if the number of digits in the fourth quarter itself is bad,” said Adam Crisafulli, founder of Market Intelligence Firm Vital Knowledge. “That makes the stock extremely difficult to assess, especially around income.”
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