Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we are going to go through my Q4 2021 Tesla

earnings preview and forecast episode.

As a reminder, for the audio listeners, this is going to be a little bit number heavy,

so probably worth checking out the YouTube video.

And as another reminder, for just even why we do these preview episodes, really just

to understand the context of what Tesla is going to report, it's not necessarily to figure

out if Tesla is going to beat or miss earnings expectations or anything like that.

Although that is interesting to note to you, it's really to understand the numbers that

we're receiving from Tesla and how those are going to play out for the future.

So we'll talk a little bit about that as well, but I always like to kind of start with

that as the mindset as we head into these earnings preview episodes.

So with that said, just a couple of things on the market, Tesla today was down one and

a quarter percent to $980.40, while the NASDAQ was down 2.3%.

So again, one of those tougher down more than 2% days of the NASDAQ.

Anytime you have that, it's kind of a bottom 10%-tile day for the NASDAQ for the year.

So rough markets continue.

As we talked about earlier this week, Microsoft did report after hours.

Last I looked, they were down about 3% after bouncing down to about 6%.

So it looked like the numbers were pretty good.

I don't know if they've given any guidance yet, I'll have to spend a little bit more time

looking into that, but hopefully just a little bit of an overreaction and that'll bounce

back.

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