Energy: Does Tesla Deserve its Wild Valuation?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Tesla’s sky high valuation prices the company for perfection; is this warranted or should investors beware?
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| 0:00.0 | Is Tesla overvalued? We dive in on this energy and industrial's edition of Industry Focus. |
| 0:06.0 | Greetings Shoeil's fool, Sean Riley here at Fool Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 0:15.8 | It is Thursday, May 12, 2016, and joining me via Skype to decide once and for all if Tesla is |
| 0:21.6 | massively overvalued or just getting started on |
| 0:24.0 | its path to world domination is Motley Fool contributor Daniel Sparks. |
| 0:28.0 | Good morning, Dan. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey Sean, how's it going? |
| 0:31.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:32.0 | I don't know if you maybe heard this on the news, but we're on like day 15 of just rain and |
| 0:36.4 | clouds in DC, so I gotta ask, what is it like in Colorado right now? |
| 0:40.0 | Uh, well, it's finally getting sunny, which is nice. |
| 0:44.0 | So we had a foot of snow on the 1st of May, so it was a wild start to the summer. |
| 0:51.0 | I will stop complaining now. Okay. Sounds good. So we're |
| 0:57.9 | talking Tesla today. It's been a long time coming. We don't nearly talk |
| 1:01.0 | about this hugely important company nearly enough on the Energy and |
| 1:04.9 | Industrial show and you're kind of Mr Tesla on fool.com and full disclosure you own one so you're |
| 1:12.0 | probably a little bit biased. |
| 1:13.1 | And I do think the listener should be aware of that. |
| 1:15.4 | Yes. |
| 1:16.4 | But first thing we got to talk about is valuation. |
| 1:20.6 | I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that this puppy is priced for |
| 1:26.5 | perfection. Yeah I definitely I would have to agree that the stock is pricey and that's something you won't see in my articles as me recommending the stock |
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