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Electric Slide: Tesla Misses, Southwest and ServiceNow CEOs, Q4 GDP Beat 01/25/24

Squawk on the Street

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Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber discussed Tesla shares taking a hit after the EV maker posted weaker-than-expected Q4 results and said it sees "notably lower" growth in 2024. The anchors reacted to what CEO Elon Musk said on Tesla's earnings. A CEO doubleheader on the show: Southwest’s Bob Jordan on earnings and MAX delivery plans in wake of Boeing's recent problems – and ServiceNow's Bill McDermott on his company's quarterly beat and riding the AI wave with shares at all-time highs. Also in focus: The first reading of Q4 GDP beats expectations with 3.3% growth, Humana tumbles again and drags its health insurance rivals lower, IBM and Comcast surge on earnings, the chip sector rally rolls on. Disclosure: Comcast is the parent of NBCUniversal, of which CNBC is a unit. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC Squawk on the Street. Don't miss a minute of the action. Good Thursday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kington-A. with Jim Kramer, David Faber, at post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Four straight S&P record highs. The Bulls will shoot for five as Q4 GDP crushes estimates. up 3-3. Street was looking for two, even as the price index drops to the

0:22.2

lowest level in almost four years. Our roadmap begins with Tesla's tumble, though, the first of

0:26.9

the Mag 7 to report. Warning of, quote, notably lower vehicle volume growth in the year ahead.

0:32.4

One analyst calling it a train wreck. Plus, the S&P 500 is heading for what would be its fifth

0:37.3

straight record

0:38.5

and gdp growth surging it was a strong finish to 2003 we're going to discuss the outlook for

0:44.9

rate policy and we got a slew of other corporate results to get to as well this morning

0:49.6

comcast ibn blackstone union pacific umana we're also going to be joined by the CEOs of Service Now and Southwest Air.

0:58.1

That'll be a bit later in the hour.

1:00.1

Actually going to begin with Tesla down sharply in the pre-market.

1:03.4

The EV maker does post a quarterly miss, says it expects notably slower growth than 24.

1:08.0

But on the call last night night Elon Musk did express some optimism

1:11.5

Tesla can become the market cap leader I do see a path where Tesla could one day be the

1:21.7

most valuable company in the world I would anyone have size that is on an easy path

1:27.2

and a very difficult one but is now on the set of possible outcomes.

1:31.3

Jim, not a lot of downgrades today, but plenty of target trimming.

1:35.3

Yeah, that path that he just referenced, he's not on right now.

1:40.3

This was a combination of an existential and a cyclical crisis.

1:47.0

Existential because we do have the notion, David, that he would like two classes of stock,

1:51.0

and he even talks about the rating agencies, ISIS, except for I used to call them ISS.

1:56.0

Right, I.S.

1:57.0

But he also talks about, look, incentives, what you need to have people buy cars, but then he's got Optimus, which is a fantastic video, by the one.

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