Hey everybody Rob Maurer here and today we are discussing the scheduling of Tesla's

second quarter earnings report and shareholder update, as well as

Elon Musk's comments at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference yesterday.

Tesla stock on the day today did finish up 2.1%, closing at an all-time high of $1,394.28, so not the all-time high that it's reached,

but the all-time high close.

That compared to the Nasak up half a percent on the day.

As we talked about yesterday, we were expecting

Tesla to announce the date for their second quarter earnings call somewhat soon. That did happen

last night, with Tesla announcing the date of Wednesday July 22nd after market close.

For me, this was the expected date based on previous filings.

I think some people have thought it was an early scheduling

because the Q1 earnings were on April 29th

and the Q4 earnings were on January 29th, and the Q4 earnings were on January 29th.

But those were sort of misleading data points because Q1 was delayed because of the coronavirus situation,

most likely. I'm sure Tesla wanted as much information on the situation as possible

before holding the earnings call. and then Q4 is always naturally a week later.

Anyway, back in Q3 of 2018, Tesla shifted their reporting up by one week and they have followed that cadence pretty much except for that first

quarter of 2020. That cadence for non-year-end quarters is the Wednesday of the third

full week after quarter end and it's the fourth full week after quarter end for the year end quarter or cute four.

The reason I'm spending time on this is because sometimes if earnings reports are scheduled early

that means the company has good news and they want to get it out as soon as they possibly can.

So some people are taking that as yet another sign that maybe

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