It's Thursday, May 9th.

Welcome to Mark of Fullery.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Pro and Options, Jeff Fisher, and Brian Hamming.

Good to see you guys.

Thanks for coming in. Hey Chris.

Hey Chris. Thanks for coming. Making the trip all the way from your desk

I say that like it's this massive journey

i thought you meant like thanks for coming into the office today which you could also

say like you're Jim Gillies coming over the border. More earnings

news, Tesla Motors, Green Mountain, Groupon, and a very interesting story about Microsoft and this is going to shock some of our

listeners reportedly Microsoft is going to make an acquisition. I know that's out of

character for them but we'll get to that.

For the first time in its 10 year history, Tesla Motors has reported a quarterly profit.

Jeff, 11 million in profit in the first quarter, revenue up 83% from the previous quarter.

Not surprisingly, shares up big this morning.

So the company is starting to mature a little bit as a company, but it's still only a boutique car business.

They sold 4,500 cars in the quarter. They expect to sell about 21,000 this year for comparison sake.

Ford alone sells more than 2 million a year.

So it's a tiny little company.

That said, obviously good news, even though on an operating basis they still ran at a small loss but on a net basis they had a small profit and they had some a little bit of free cash flow so that that's great but looking forward it's going to be a company

that has to almost surely raise more capital and now might be a good time but the shares

up so much you sell some shares raise some capital capital. So over the years, if you're looking

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