Tesla trades at multiples that make traditional automakers look like bargain bins, and whether that premium survives depends on a set of bets that have never been more consequential or more uncertain.
Tesla trades at multiples that make traditional automakers look like bargain bins, and whether that premium survives depends on a set of bets that have never been more consequential or more uncertain.
The 24/7 Wall St. price target for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) is $410.88 over the next 12 months. With shares at $380.54 in Monday morning trading, that means 7.97% upside. Our model rates Tesla a buy with high confidence.
Tesla trades at 354x trailing earnings and 159x forward earnings. Justifying that multiple requires autonomy, energy, and robotics to generate profits far larger than the car business produces today. Our model finds the market already prices in much of that future, leaving small but real upside.
Revenue Is Accelerating While an AI Build Absorbs Margins
Shares rose 2.68% over the past week and 3.46% over the past month, but remain down 15.38% year to date. The stock sits between a 52-week low of $297.38 and a high of $498.83. On Friday, Tesla rose as Elon Musk asserted control over the Terafab chip project.
Second-quarter revenue reached $28.24 billion, up 25.5% and exceeding the $26.36 billion consensus, on record Q2 deliveries of 480,126 vehicles. EPS came in at $0.33, while operating margin contracted to 1.4% as operating expenses rose 47% to $4.35 billion. Free cash flow came in at negative $1.092 billion.
What Bulls Need to See for $470
Software is the core of the bull case. Active Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscriptions hit 1.48 million, up 56%. Robotaxi now operates in 7 US metros and has logged more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised driving with zero notable incidents.
Energy storage deployments reached 13.5 GWh. Musk told analysts, “I think Optimus will be the biggest product ever.” Among analysts, 4 rate Tesla a strong buy and 15 a buy. If those businesses scale on schedule, our bull case reaches $470.40.
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