Hey everybody Rob Mauer here and today we do finally have the analyst consensus estimates

for Tesla's Q3 earnings report so I do want to spend a little bit of time just comparing

that versus my forecast and talk about some of the reasons for the big differences and

we've got some news on Nitsa Nitsa has appointed a new senior safety advisor so we'll talk

about that choice.

We've also got some analyst updates ahead of earnings some news on the cyber truck

and a couple other stories as well.

Quick look at the stock, Tesla today ending its six day run of finishing positive, closing

down to 2.34% to $864.27 that did significantly trail the NASDAQ which was positive on the day

7.10% of a percent.

Alright so first up today I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes talking about the

analyst consensus estimates we do finally have those now so you can see them all here

in the kind of light gray column there on the right side of the Q3 forecast.

Two columns there so one is the company compiled analyst consensus estimates so that's the

average across 24 estimates and then the column to the right of that is how my forecast

compares to that consensus.

So we won't spend a ton of time on this but we'll talk briefly about the differences

and what may be driving those because I think that will really help us understand the

results when we get them tomorrow.

The differences start off right away so if we look at total sales or revenue consensus

estimate is about 13.9 billion I'm all the way at 14.6 billion and if you look at the

different categories there between automotive energy services and others really the biggest

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