Pursuant to the correction that has taken place in recent weeks with respect to the shares in Tesla, further downside risk now appears limited by close and important technical support levels at 197 USD.
Summary
● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● The share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at USD 196.65, which offers good timing for buyers.
● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.
● Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
● Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
● Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.
● 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, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
● Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.
● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
● The underlying tendency is negative on the weekly chart below the resistance at 264.53 USD
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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%).