Tesla shares trade close to a major resistance zone that is situated around 252.48 USD. This zone should be difficult to break through, which in turn suggests a corrective move ahead.
Summary
● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.
● For a short-term investment strategy, the company has poor fundamentals.
Strengths
● The prospective high growth for the next fiscal years is among the main assets of the company
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● For the last week, the earnings per share forecast has been revised upwards. According to recent estimates, analysts give a positive overview of the stock
Weaknesses
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at USD 357.42.
● The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
● The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
● 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.
● For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
● For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
● The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.
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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%).