All the people famous for shorting and being right, even one of the guys the big short movie was made about (or maybe more) is short Tesla.
Here are numbers from 2017 & 2018:
Market cap 2018
GM 54.5 billion
Tesla 52 billion
Nissan 35 billion
Ford 33.5 billion
R&D spending 2017
GM 8.1 billion
Ford 7.3 billion
Nissan 4.5 billion (500b yen)
Tesla 1.4 billion
Revenus 2018
Ford 160 billion (slight increase)
GM 147 Billion (slight increase)
Nissan 100 Billion (slight increase)
Tesla 21 Billion (+82% from 2017 & 2017 was + 68% & 2016 was + 73%)
Profit in 2018
GM 8 billion
Nissan 5 billion
Ford 3.6 billion
Tesla -1 billion
Profit in 2017
Ford 7.7 billion
Nissan 6.5 billion
Tesla -2 billion
GM -4 billion
Profit in 2016
GM 9.5 billion
Nissan 6.5 billion
Ford 4.5 billion
Tesla -0.675 billion
Production output
Ford 6.6 million cars (2017)
GM 8.4 million cars (2018)
Nissan 5.5 million cars (2016 - sold 5.7 million in 2017 according to their latest report)
Tesla - lol - 0.24 million (2018)
As a comparison, according to 2017/2018 Jaguar Land Rover report:
They sold (and produced about the same amount) 600,000 cars (up 1.7%)
Their revenue is 26 billion £.
Earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation 2.8 bil £
Profit after tax is still 1.1 billion £ (~1.5 billion $)
JLR is owned by Tata Motors which market cap is 10 billion. They have plenty of subsidiaries JLR is just one of many. 10 billion seems low, correct me if I'm wrong.
You know, when Tesla makes money, it's by selling emission credits to dirty car manufacturers. So whatever they "save" ends up being produced somewhere else anyway and the end result is the same. And
Really helping the environment here.
Additional facts:
Producing its 100 kwh battery Tesla produces 17.5 tons of CO2. Takes from 3 to 8 years of driving a full oil car to make that. Twice as much with diesel cars with good engines (Jaguar’s advanced range of clean and efficient four-cylinder Ingenium petrol and diesel engines with CO2 emissions from as low as 134g/km. )
Not going to look at Hybrids and all the numbers I am not interested in making a full in depth analysis either. Or maybe I'll check little by little to learn a bit.
Tesla prides itself in recycling its batteries, BUT they don't do it!
Umicore does it! (didn't I trade this company a few months ago lol)
Elon Musk has a private jet he uses very often. In 2018 he flew it 150,000 miles or 240,000 km or 6 times around the earth or 40 Paris-New York or 60 NY-LA.
Tesla in a nutshell: Taking plenty of funding from gullible investors, generating nothing, not even helping "the environment", older investors were paid with newer investors money, and they won't be able to get their money back pretty much. What's the P word I am looking for? :D