TSLA 10-Q Analysis, Capital Expenditures, Musk Compensation (10.26.20)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
➤ Tesla publishes 10-Q SEC filing for Q3 2020, detailing $10B+ capital expenditure plans and sharing more details on Elon Musk CEO performance compensation plan
➤ More information on Elon Musk’s compensation plan can be found here: https://youtu.be/XfHWl_Lhf5o
➤ Additional information on Tesla’s deferred revenue, production rates, delivery constraints, Energy gross margins, and Tesla’s $5B capital raise
➤ Tesla begins to export Model 3 from China
➤ Shanghai places additional restrictions on license plates
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:01.0 | Hey, |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, uh, now we're here, and today we are going to be focusing |
| 0:10.1 | on Tesla's 10-Q filing. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the filing that happens with the SEC |
| 0:14.0 | after the earnings report every quarter and we always get a little bit more detail on |
| 0:17.8 | Tesla's earnings, particularly this quarter on their capital expenditure plans, |
| 0:21.9 | stock-based compensation, deferred revenue, some tidbits on margin, production, the energy business, etc. |
| 0:27.6 | It's a dense report. I spent most of the day going through it, so we'll go through the highlights on that. |
| 0:31.6 | And then we do have a couple other stories to get to as well, |
| 0:34.2 | specifically on China exports, |
| 0:36.2 | some other news out of Shanghai, |
| 0:37.6 | and a couple other stories, time depending. |
| 0:40.2 | All right, so first up from the 10-Q filing, |
| 0:42.0 | let's talk about capital expenditures. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the story that seems to be getting the most attention and headlines today, |
| 0:48.0 | even though Zach had already mentioned the news that we're going to talk about here on their earnings call. |
| 0:53.1 | So this should be no surprise to all of us, but in Tesla's 10Q, they say, quote, |
| 0:57.2 | we currently expect our capital expenditures |
| 0:59.5 | to be at the high end of our range of 2.5 to 3.5 billion in 2020, an increase to 4.5 to 6 billion in each of the next |
| 1:07.9 | two fiscal years." |
| 1:09.9 | This is a significant change from Tesla's previous guidance. |
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