Tesla’s board:
hey, I know, let’s give the ketamine enthusiast who sieg heil’d a dementia-ridden psychopathic racist twice on national television a trillion dollars this year as a comp package.
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The fact that it isnt completely under is unacceptable.
Stock price went from $430 to $450.
As well it should have. You can't sell many vehicles to people who still remember what nazi's were. Yet who really cares. In the aftermath of the nazi shit and dropped sales his board cronies paid him a trillion dollar bonus! CEO bonuses work both ways I guess, in this corrupt, fuck you, world.
Even if it got banked 100% it wouldn't stop his Nazi rhetoric
Ha ha
Finally a good news
And let me guess, stonk went up still?
It's not about the companies, it's a gamble stock, divorced from the performance of the company.
Yes, because while they had lower profits than previously, they still had higher profits than expected. This market behavior is in no way unique or limited to Tesla or "meme stocks". If a company increases profits, but less than expected, their stock usually drop despite increased profit. It's because value is tied to actual results vs. expected results on the short term.
Yes, but even then you'd expect the faltering to be reflected, just earlier. As the analysts estimate low profits you'd expect the stock to suffer a sharp decline then.
Given how overvalued Tesla is arguably in general and that the rationalization is that while it's not the biggest and best brand now, but their growth trajectory should carry them past all the other automakers, it's insane that they are only down 11% from their late december highs, and still showing a $1.4 trillion market cap..
It's not a company that looks like growth nor do their current results look to justify that crazy valuation. They are valued at 3x Ford, GM, Toyota, and Honda combined, despite having more modest business results than any of them.
Yes, this local move upward on beating estimates despite a bad result is normal, but the broader trend of this stock is still anything but.
They squandered their reputation to gain political clout that seems to have evaporated and are locked into EVs in a market where that's no longer subsidized and a great deal of EV interest is muted now and other manufacturers are able to push out compelling EV cars. You know that Musk is going to take your money and spend it how he sees fit including obscene bonuses to himself...
I just don't understand Tesla investors at all at this point...
Sales are down worldwide, and it's so bad that he just announced he's ending production on two of his product lines, the S and X series, abandoning his "SEXY" branding strategy. Now it will just be "EY."
The stock is only staying afloat because it's in the portfolios of so many institutional investment accounts. With each dropping earning report, the stock is going to slowly slide, and eventually those institutional investment accounts will start dropping it. Then he's finished.
Tesla will be bankrupt in two years.
I've been reading that the last 5 years. It's not a stock, it's a cult.
I've been reading that the last 5 years.
And it's finally starting to happen. They've never had a 46% reduction in profit before. They've never closed two production lines before.
This is NOT business as usual over at Tesla. I guarantee The Goblin is in a near panic right now, his Trillion dollar payday is in jeopardy.
I just checked and of course the stock went up.
I honestly don't know how Musks companies work.
Tesla makes cars. Cars don't sell, so profit drops. Musk uses SpaceX to buy Teslas. Tesla's profit declines, Musk says it's an AI company, then buys AI from his other AI company, which he funded from Tesla stock. Musk buys Twitter, twitter goes down in value. Musk buys Twitter from himself using xAI, for higher than its market value, then boasts stock gains?
So now Tesla is going to buy AI from himself, and build robots that were just pantomimed guys in suits... and somehow... profit???
I don't know what the fuck is going on in this world. But I would absolutely love to see Tesla's stock drop and all of this made up debt-financing fall apart like the house of cards it is. However, Musk saying "we're making robots now" seems to have nicely papered over what should be a massive stock decline. After his last one "Tesla isn't a car company, it's an AI company" now it's "Tesla isn't an AI company, it's a factory company".
It's simple in its principal, really..
- you have multiple companies
- one company (A) have some supply for some product
- on the other company (B), you create demand for that product (i.e. for its operation)
- thus, under your control, you make company A and B enter a trade agreement
- as someone who brokered that deal, you get rewarded (e.g. from brokerage fee, or commision)
- sometimes, by having a massive increase in sales, the stock for company A would increase, thus you can sell a little bit of it, which you can later buy back after the stock price goes back down
- profit
Some facts:
- even though they're your companies, you are a separate entity from them, and they are each its own entity
- the money comes from the investors as well as profit, remember that they are separate
- no, you cannot just take all the companies' money, since even though they're yours, there are corporate structures and other people at stake preventing that
So you basically come up with some excuse for moving stuff around, then you come up with some excuse to siphon off some of that good stuff.
Fuck that shit. Companies being their own legal entity was a mistake.
The reason why that was done was largely to keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it. This would've been back when most large companies were trade companies wherein it made a lot of sense, since if the ship goes down you're fucked regardless time to liquidate the company and payback who you can.
The actual problem is the stock market since it creates fairy tale bullshit that allows Tesla to exist. Remove the stock market and the individual investments become a lot more risky and make bullshit stocks less likely to exist since all stock would be privately traded and their worth based off of company payout.
keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it
So instead we get "vulture capitalism" as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but more diffuse, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general "privatize profits, socialize losses" general strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.
Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.
Can you explain this?
If a real person would be held resonsible...
He’s Elizabeth Holmes on a global scale. He grifts money from the governments
The market will stay irrational longer than you can maintain liquidity...
Not good enough. Must try harder to bankrult Tesla.
Good, a well deserved ass-beating to the Nazi-in-chief. Fuck Elon and his company.
You love to see it.
Investors largely expected the decline in sales in Tesla’s fourth quarter and full-year results for 2025, and the company beat Wall Street’s estimates for earnings and revenue, sending shares up in after-market trading Wednesday.
Remember, this is talking about profits, not revenue. They're still making profit. They did shit profits, but it was more than people expected them to make, so shares went up. Fuck Tesla.
Fucking stocks are like gambling. There's no rhyme or reason to them.
It's worse than gambling. When gambling there's risk and reward, but bad bets are still the responsibility of the player just like bets that outperform. In stocks, if someone makes a bet and/or the company misses their expected returns, the gambler can sue the company. It's the only gambling where oops, all losses can still result in payoff for the player by fiduciary class-action lawsuit.
I played meme-stocks in 2020-21. I saw that bullshit first-hand, getting half a dozen emails after quarter misses about suing the company over their failure to meet projections. But half of those companies were just getting fucked with because of the influx of idiots like me doing silly shit with their money! I was blown away by that and suddenly started to see how fucked we were to do anything to stop the cancer that unregulated capitalism has become. Infinite growth, impossible in a finite system, is not only expected, but failure to return positive returns could be met with shareholders suing the company for line not go up high enough reasons.
It's so messed up.
Welcome to the vibe based economy.
I had this exact opinion when Amazon lost less money than expected in 1999. I'm sure people had similar opinions before 1929. This isn't something new.
EcOnOmIcS iS a ScIeNcE!
Especially a meme stock like tesla
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Everyone should be cutting Tesla, Google, Microsoft, apple, meta etc etc out of their lives as much as possible.
And their portfolios.
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they had profits in 2025? too many ok with buying nazi products
Suower popular in Australia, lots of we Aussies are disappointingly Nazi adjacent :(
Also very popular in Norway, Turkey etc etc
People need to get their teslas branded with a fucking swastika, Tarantino style.
I rode in a Tesla last week. Some of the tech is better than what I've experienced in other vehicles. To be fair, a lot of the controls are way worse and key functions are buried in screens and menus that are difficult to find.
I'll never own a Tesla, but I do hope the always on wireframe view of everything around you comes to other vehicles. It's way easier to see pedestrians and cross traffic in a parking spot on that screen than it is the 360 camera view on our new Traverse which is only available in reverse and for a few seconds after shifting to forward.
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