The recent downturn has taken Tesla shares close to a medium term support level around 260 USD. The timing for a long trade in the stock appears good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The current area is a good opportunity for investors interested in buying the stock in a mid or long-term perspective. Indeed, the share is moving closer to its lower bound at USD 258.78 USD in weekly data.
● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.
● The prospective high growth for the next fiscal years is among the main assets of the company
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 179.86 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
● For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
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Tesla, Inc. designs, builds, and sells electric vehicles. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of automotive vehicles (81.1%);
- services (8.6%): primarily maintenance and repair services. The group also develops sale of power train assembly components for electric vehicles activity;
- sale of energy generation and storage systems (6.2%);
- automotive leasing (2.2%);
- automotive credits (1.9%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 7 manufacturing sites located in the United States (5), China and Germany.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (46.7%), China (22.5%) and other (30.8%).