Tesla to lose money in 2024? From Magnificent 7 to Market Dog in 3 months

Tesla to lose money in 2024? From Magnificent 7 to Market Dog in 3 months

Right now Tesla (TSLA) is a case study in how sentiment on a stock changes, how long it takes sentiment to change (and recover), and the stages of sentiment change. You understanding of this process should be our guide to whether you want to own Tesla and when. Tesla (TSLA) could potentially lose money in 2024, Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas wrote in a note to investors this week. And he cut his Tesla earnings projections by 25% to $1.51 a share from a prior $2.04. Gross profit margins will fall to 11.4% (excluding regulatory credits that Tesla gets paid by automakers looking to meet EPA mileage and emissions rules.) And this is from a Tesla bull.

Tesla misses on earnings but that’s not the worst news in today’s report

Tesla’s got a China demand problem

Rising production and slowing sales have led Tesla (TSLA) to cut the price of the cheapest Model 3 sedan, built in China, by 5% to 265,900 yuan ($36,774), today, Monday, October 24. The company dropped the starting price of the Model Y SUV by 8.8% to 288,900 yuan. The roots of the problem include competition from local Chinese electric vehicle makers led by BYD Co. (BYDDY)–which sold a record 200,973 vehicles last month

Albemarle as a test case: Can a “special situation” go up in a bear market?

Albemarle as a test case: Can a “special situation” go up in a bear market?

Lithium producer Albemarle (ALB) has been staging a very important experiment over the last few days. Here’s the question being tested: The overall market is in a serious decline–a bear or almost bear market depending on what index you track–that looks likely to go on for a while. In this environment can any individual stock deliver enough good news to buck the market trend and post gains for more than a day or two? On May 4 Albemarle raised its sales guidance for 2022 when it reported first quarter earnings. And then Monday, May 23, the company raised estimates again to a range of $5.8 billion to $6.2 billion. That was up from a previous estimated range of $5.2 billion to $5.6 billion. In total, the midpoint for the company’s estimate of 2022 revenue 38% higher than it was a month ago. And what happened to the shares?

Albemarle as a test case: Can a “special situation” go up in a bear market?

Biden adds goals and rules to speed up transition to electric vehicles

Today President Joe Biden unveiled a plan that would speed up the transition to electric vehicles in the United States. Included was an executive order (in this case a goal) calling for half of new passenger car sales to be of electric vehicles powered by batteries and fuel cells or plug-in electric hybrids by the end of the decade. And new proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department on greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency for cars, SUVs and pickup trucks through model year 2026. The proposed regulations would reverse a Trump administration freeze on fuel-deficiency standards that was itself a reversal of the Obama administration regulations that would have ramped up average fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by model year 2025.

Tesla misses on earnings but that’s not the worst news in today’s report

Tesla shares drop on reports of global market share loss for April

It’s only one month. But investors worried that figures showing that Tesla (TSLA) lost market share in the global market for electric vehicles marked the start of a trend. So many competitors have launched so many electric vehicles that Tesla’s market lead is bound to fall, the story goes. Shares of Tesla dropped by 3.01% today, June 2, to $605.12. It was the stock’s biggest drop since May 13. And it came as other electric-car stocks rose. Tesla’s global market share decreased to 11% in April from 29% in March.

Albemarle as a test case: Can a “special situation” go up in a bear market?

Thinking of buying VW on its push into electric cars? But which class of VW shares? Here’s the one I’m buying tomorrow for my 50 Stocks Portfolio

You could buy VWAGY, trading today, April 5, at $37.00, up 4.27% or you could buy VWAPY at $29.27, up 2.92%. (A search for VW ticker will discover another 21 symbols on various European exchanges but for U.S investors these two ADRs are the major choices. Both are ADRs (American Depositary Receipts) on Volkswagen’s German shares. But there’s a considerable difference between these two ADRs. For example, on April 5 VWaGY showed an average daily trading volume of 1.34 million shares. VWAPY, on the other hand, showed an average volume of just 232,327 shares. So what’s the difference?

Albemarle as a test case: Can a “special situation” go up in a bear market?

Electric vehicle charging stocks are on fire today on Biden infrastructure plan

Shares of Chargepoint (CHPT) were up 15.40% as of 2:30 p.m. New York time today, March 31. Charging station competitor Blink Charging (BLNK) was up 8.69%. The big jump came on speculation that the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan with its emphasis on growing the number of electric vehicles in use would include incentives and money for expanding the woefully inadequate U.S. network of charging stations for electric cars.