Tesla published its second quarter earnings report, in which the company said it earned $1.48 billion in net income on $25.5 billion in revenue. That represents a 2 percent increase year over year compared to $24.9 billion in revenue in Q2 2023 but a 45 percent drop in net income.

Tesla’s gross margins were in the spotlight again, as bullish investors hoped to see improvements after years of steady decline. Rampant price cutting and cooling demand as well as cheaper financing have pushed the company’s once-vaunted margins to their lowest point in six years.

It has unquestionably been a whiplash of a quarter for the company. Tesla abandoned its plan to build a more affordable “Model 2” vehicle — and then recommitted to it. Musk announced a robotaxi reveal event for August but then delayed it until October. The company embarked on a massive series of layoffs, including the entire Supercharger team, and then hired many people back. Tesla’s advanced driver-assist technology came under harsh scrutiny after a previous recall failed to prevent driver misuse. And Tesla shareholders again approved a massive pay package for Elon Musk, after a judge tossed out the first one.

On top of all that, Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, inserting his companies into a fraught political environment that is likely to have repercussions for Tesla’s sales and brand reputation.

  • @shalafi
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    495 months ago

    I honestly don’t know how their stock hasn’t completely tanked, one clusterfuck after another. Quality is shit, the Cyber Truck is all but finished, CEO is fruity, etc.

    And to top it off, they struggle to produce the product. Seems everything is on a waiting list.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      295 months ago

      Stock valuations are based on Wall Street feefees, not the actual economic performance of a company. Even if said economic performance is shit, it only affects stock prices as much as institutional bankers feel like it should.

      It’s basically a casino run by the super rich, and people in the US get their retirements in its chips.

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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        135 months ago

        You’re not wrong but Tesla is probably more of a meme stock at this point. We might not be able to blame Wall Street for this one. There’s a lot of retail investors in Tesla stock because they think Elon is a super brain genius despite all evidence to the contrary.

      • Amanda
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        35 months ago

        I’m not in the US and I also get most of my retirement in stock market casino chips

  • @cheese_greater
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    5 months ago

    Can Tesla cars still run client-side if when the grift cycle completes and Tesla goes bankrupt?

    • @[email protected]
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      255 months ago

      you dont need a cellular connection for it to function, just a decent chunk of its software options would stop working (for obvious reasons). and the built in maps would stop updating

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      A friend of mine recently told me that your seat position is stored server-side in case you own multiple Teslas, so if Tesla goes belly up, it’s possible you won’t be able to save your seat settings.

      • @somethingsnappy
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        25 months ago

        If you think that’s the worst that will happen whether or not they fold…

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    365 months ago

    1.4b profit/quarter is just under 6b/year. How did he justify his 57b (ish) compensation package? Are Tesla shareholders morons?

  • @[email protected]
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    335 months ago

    You aren’t giving Elon enough money. Sacrifice another 47 billion to your weird terfy god.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 months ago

      It should be highly illegal to pay anyone double a company’s revenue let alone income

    • sunzu
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      115 months ago

      Delaware judge had a backbone… It doesn’t happen often it was refreshing to see somebody taking a stand on this clown regime

  • @cosmicrookie
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    145 months ago

    But Elon is surely worth the highest salary ever given huh?

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      I imagine it becomes a bit hard to care when you have both a literal and figurative line of people out the door waiting to suck your dick every day. While I admittedly appreciate the Jumpstart Tesla gave EV development, it’s. Now time for it to die.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Status is all that people like Elon have left. When you can have anyhting, that’s the only thing left for you to try to gain.

        He 100% cares at being seen as incompetent. He won’t ever go hungry again, but he will get up in his feels about this shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          Pretty sure he never went hungry in the first place. If he cares about being seen as incompetent he sure doesn’t seem to be showing it.

  • Nougat
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    115 months ago

    Are they still in the black? Yes? Then they have been ripping everyone off.

  • @thorbot
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    75 months ago

    Haha get fucked muskrat

  • Vaggumon
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    Oh no … oh wait, I don’t give a fuck.