Energy: The Tesla Paradox Record Revenue and Widest Loss
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We grapple with last quarter’s results and discuss the company’s worsening free cash flow position, delivery expectations, and margin goals.
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| 0:16.8 | mortgage.com forward to industry focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we're talking Energy and Industrials. |
| 0:27.0 | It is Thursday, the 22nd of February, and today, better late than never, we will be discussing Tesla earnings. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm your host Sarah Priestley and joining me on Skype all the way from Colorado which I'm assuming is sunny, |
| 0:39.0 | his Motley Fall contributor and Senior Technology specialist Daniel Sparks. |
| 0:43.8 | Daniel how are you doing? |
| 0:45.1 | Good, thank you Sarah. |
| 0:46.6 | No is Colorado sunny? |
| 0:48.1 | Have I just projected... |
| 0:49.1 | No, it's actually not sunny. |
| 0:51.0 | That makes me feel a little matter. Yeah, it's been really foggy lately, so. It's pretty rainy here in Washington, but yesterday it was, I think we almost got up to the 80s, so I shouldn't complain in February. |
| 1:02.6 | Okay that is. It's a lot better than here. It's been like 40 and below for the highs every day. |
| 1:08.0 | So... |
| 1:09.0 | Well Tesla seems a bit like a stock that some analysts are loving to hate at the minute. |
| 1:14.8 | It's also the most shorted stock on the market the last time I checked. |
| 1:18.3 | So fourth quarter results saw the company announce its worst quarterly loss ever and also record revenue and just to give |
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