Comment by epistasis
1 day ago
Ah, but you missed the pivot, Tesla is no longer an EV maker, it's now a robotics company.
This fully explains the market valuation, of course! Never mind a swarm of retail investors driven by a news media that covered Musk as if he were Tony Stark for years, this market cap is fully based on solid fundamental analysis of expected future revenue.
The pivot to robotics came exactly when it became clear Tesla is a failed car company. The valuation is not based on solid fundamental analysis of expected future revenue in robotics, because the company is lead by someone who fundamentally does not understand robotics (as evidenced by his continued failure to deliver FSD and robo taxis, his wrongheaded and stubborn insistence on vision-only sensing, and his completely backwards belief that sensor fusion makes belief estimates worse). Tesla's track record on autonomy and robotics is they are responsible for the first autonomous robot death, they invented something they dub "mecha-hitler" due to how vile it is, and they promised a product capable of driving across the US 8 years ago but still can't deliver it today. So no, the valuation is not solid, it's vapor.