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The electric car manufacturer posted results above expectations. But the analysis reveals eroding profitability, abandoned promises, and a $1.4 trillion valuation that defies logic.<\/p>\n

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Markets cheered. After publishing its quarterly results, Tesla saw its stock jump 7%. A perfect \u201cdouble beat\u201d: revenue and earnings above forecasts. Yet behind this euphoria lies a far less reassuring accounting reality.<\/p>\n

Illusory profitability<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tesla reports $0.41 earnings per share in \u201cadjusted\u201d figures. But these figures exclude more than $1 billion in stock-based compensation \u2014 a very real expense that dilutes existing shareholders.<\/p>\n

Under standard accounting, the one that really matters, net income stands at $477 million on $22.4 billion in revenue. That is a margin of 2.1%. A figure to put into perspective: General Motors posts 5.2%, Toyota exceeds 8%, Ford holds around 6%. The disruptor supposed to revolutionize the auto industry generates less profit than the \u201cdinosaurs\u201d it claims to make obsolete.<\/p>\n

With a $1.4 trillion market capitalization, Tesla trades at 150 times its real earnings. Toyota trades at 10 times, Apple at 28 times. Even for a technology growth stock, the multiple appears absurd.<\/p>\n

The betrayal of Full Self-Driving<\/strong><\/p>\n

On April 22, Elon Musk dropped a statement that amounts to an admission: \u201cHardware 3 simply does not have the capacity to achieve unsupervised autonomous driving. I wish it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four million Teslas are running on this Hardware 3. Hundreds of thousands of owners paid between $8,000 and $15,000 for the famous FSD, based on a promise repeated for seven years: the onboard hardware was sufficient, only software updates were missing.<\/p>\n

That is false. Hardware 3 has memory bandwidth eight times lower than Hardware 4 deployed since late 2023. This limitation is hardware-based, irreversible. Impossible to fix with software.<\/p>\n

Tesla offers two solutions: a trade-in with a discount to buy a new vehicle, or a retrofit in specialized \u201cmicro-factories\u201d capable of processing one thousand vehicles per day. At that pace, it would take eleven years to upgrade the existing fleet.<\/p>\n

According to internal documents revealed by Reuters, 285,000 owners purchased FSD on Hardware 3 vehicles. At $10,000 per package, legal exposure reaches $2.85 billion. A class action filed in 2022 in California, still pending, could open the door to claims.<\/p>\n

The FSD v14.3 version, supposed to bring extended supervised autonomous driving, has just been pushed back to the fourth quarter of 2026. This date has already been delayed five times since the initial announcement in 2020.<\/p>\n

The automotive business falters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Car sales, the group\u2019s historical core, are showing worrying signs. Tesla reports 50,000 unsold vehicles in inventory in the first quarter, or 27 days of inventory \u2014 unseen since 2019.<\/p>\n

In California, a key market historically representing 30% of U.S. sales, registrations have dropped 24.3% year over year. Tesla\u2019s market share in California electric vehicles has fallen from 9.2% to 7.7% in twelve months.<\/p>\n

To clear inventory, the group had to grant average discounts of $6,200 per vehicle, compared to $2,100 a year earlier. This price war mechanically compresses margins, already under pressure.<\/p>\n

At the same time, investments are soaring. Announced at $20 billion in March during Investor Day, they were revised to $25 billion in April \u2014 $5 billion more in three weeks, without detailed explanation. The CFO warned: \u201cWe anticipate negative free cash flow for quarters 2 to 4 of 2026.\u201d In this context, a capital increase becomes difficult to rule out.<\/p>\n

Robotaxis: promise versus reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s valuation largely rests on two promises: autonomous driving and the deployment of a robotaxi fleet generating massive recurring revenues. Let\u2019s confront this promise with reality.<\/p>\n

Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet and the only player offering a commercial robotaxi service, completed 15 million paid rides in 2025 and drove 127 million miles in real-world conditions. The service operates in four U.S. metropolitan areas. Valuation after its last funding round: $126 billion.<\/p>\n

Tesla, for its part, shows zero billed commercial rides, zero miles in deployed robotaxi service. Prototypes have been presented at private events, but no public access exists.<\/p>\n

A conservative valuation, based on discounted future cash flows and generously incorporating robotaxi, energy, and services projects, would place Tesla\u2019s intrinsic value around $65 per share. The stock trades at $387. The gap is 1 to 6.<\/p>\n

A story that never materializes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Markets tolerate missed promises when fundamentals remain solid. Tesla has neither. Profitability is deteriorating, technological commitments are broken, market share is declining, and cash is tightening.<\/p>\n

What investors are paying for at $1.4 trillion is neither a profitable car company nor a proven technology. It is a story whose promised chapters never materialize, backed by fundamentals that are visibly eroding, quarter after quarter.<\/p>\n

The question is no longer whether Tesla is worth its valuation. It is how much longer the market will accept paying for thin air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This divide between the Stock Market and the Street is more than just economic\u2014it is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "brutal capitalism"","block_context":{"text":"brutal capitalism","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/category\/brutal-capitalism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/la-grande-divergence.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/la-grande-divergence.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/la-grande-divergence.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/la-grande-divergence.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/la-grande-divergence.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13776,"url":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/stock-market\/where-have-the-companies-of-yesteryear-gone","url_meta":{"origin":31541,"position":4},"title":"Where have the companies of yesteryear gone?","author":"Michel Santi","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Do stock markets still play their traditional role in the economy? Subsidiary question: do businesses make use of stock markets to fund and invest in improvements to their productivity? The response to these two questions must be negative since the shareholders of yesterday have now simply become speculators! Whereas conventional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "stock market"","block_context":{"text":"stock market","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/category\/stock-market"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20971,"url":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/speculation-2\/you-are-all-charles-ponzi","url_meta":{"origin":31541,"position":5},"title":"You are all Charles Ponzi!","author":"Michel Santi","date":"October 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u201cGive Ponzi a million\u201d, the Wall Street Journal declared in an article on 2nd August 1920, \u201cand in a twelve month he will expand it for you to some $25,000,000; in two years to $657,000,000; in three years to $16,885,000,000. 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