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Do we really want the club associated with an internationally recognised disrupter of the status quo (sorry Holly)?
Seriously, this is a question here?
http://www.msn.com/en-au/money/comp...th-tesla/ar-AAtcwcT?li=AA54Gb&ocid=spartanntp
The Truth Is Catching Up With Tesla
New revelations about Tesla Inc.’s production of the highly anticipated Model 3 sedan should shock, but not surprise, investors.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Tesla has recently been building major portions of the Model 3 by hand. This comes less than a week after Tesla announced it fell short of its third-quarter production guidance of 1,500 cars by more than 80%.
At the time, Tesla attributed the shortfall to “production bottlenecks.” On Friday, Tesla said it would postpone its launch event for a new truck to November to deal with Model 3 issues and to help provide assistance to Puerto Rico.
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk is known as a risk-taker, which has endeared him to Wall Street analysts and investors alike. There is a fine line, however, between setting aggressive goals and misleading shareholders.
Tesla is inching closer to that line. Tesla was making three Model 3s on an average day in the third quarter. Mr. Musk should have known in August, when production guidance was reiterated, that the company wasn’t going to produce 1,500 Model 3s by the end of September.
There are other examples. At the Model 3 launch event in July, he told reporters that Tesla had received more than 500,000 customer deposits for the car. Five days later, after a series of questions from The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Musk revised that number to 455,000 on a conference call with investors. The earlier, higher figure he quoted had been “just a guess.”
Investors approved Tesla’s decision to pay about $8 billion in stock and assumed debt to acquire Mr. Musk’s struggling SolarCity last fall, after Mr. Musk demonstrated roofs that could generate solar power for homes and promised production would begin in the spring. A year later, those roofs are conspicuously absent, beyond some installations for Tesla executives.
Last, but certainly not least, Mr. Musk told investors in May 2016 that he expected Tesla to produce between 100,000 and 200,000 Model 3s in the second half of 2017.
There is far more at stake here than just semantics. Investors have bid Tesla to a nearly $60 billion equity valuation on expectations the company will dominate the automobile market. That will be a fantasy if Tesla can’t produce enough cars profitably.
Tesla doesn’t have the financial wherewithal for investors to be patient. It burned more than $1 billion of cash in the second quarter and has nearly $20 billion in liabilities on its balance sheet. Tesla’s soaring stock reignited the interest of better-capitalized car rivals in electric cars. Fresh competition is coming.
At 67 times 2019’s expected earnings, Tesla stock is valued as though the company can execute on its vision flawlessly. The facts suggest the opposite.
It is high time for Tesla—and Wall Street—to acknowledge reality.
Why bump this thread with random facts about a sponsor that has no chance of joining us?
Someone want to post about Microsoft’s new Surface?
Someone want to post about Microsoft’s new Surface?
Because it was relevant to a discussion in this thread.
And wow what a massive bump, last post was on Wednesday. Anything else you want to have a cry about?
Because it was relevant to a discussion in this thread.
And wow what a massive bump, last post was on Wednesday. Anything else you want to have a cry about?
Apple released the new Apple Watch. #appleconfirmed
RussellEbertHandball
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Its not really relevant because Tesla won't be a sponsor. As I have said a couple of times in the thread, they have a supply problem not a demand problem and that's why they don't do sponsorships. But this thread is about speculation.Because it was relevant to a discussion in this thread.
And wow what a massive bump, last post was on Wednesday. Anything else you want to have a cry about?
The spazo share price has nothing to do with Tesla's profitability. It is speculators trying to get in early, just in case. To value Tesla at a greater market cap than Ford and GM is just bullshit by hedge funds, investors and other idiots on Wall Street. Its driven by greed not reality. And that has nothing to do with the business of building cars, batteries and setting up solar panel systems. The share price should never have got this high and when reality hits it will be slashed to an 8th or a 10th of what it currently is.
The invisible hand of the market ocassionally gives you a hard slap to the back of the head and even rarer it makes a fist and gives you a punch to the head. That invisible hand is about to move soon and move with some speed and force.
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Have you shorted the stock?
RussellEbertHandball
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Never bought any but buying some 6 month Put Options might be a good strategy.
You're a tool.
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Haha, bring back the old Vodphone mascot and see if someone punches it in the zero.
RussellEbertHandball
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Power to you became their tagline about 6 months after they left us in 2009.
This is their UK ad from May 2010. I can't find an Oz ad from 2010 but they used it then.
RussellEbertHandball
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Oz Power to You ad from 2011/12 cricket season.
Eddie Dingle
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So tesla are making a Vodafone shaped car so they can sponsor us by saying pear to ewe?
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Sidchrome confirmed new sponsor. You canna hand a man a granda spanner.
Powered by red bull.
Port post pic of Tesla in the mall.
Vodafone ads reference to power.
Boak wearing red bull hat.
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Any wif of news on a new sponsor ?
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Bump* with Renault departing I thought we would have heard something on a replacement by now unless we are waiting for trade period to end to announce something.
Boss351
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think Renault sponsorship runs 'til the end of October? so probably won't get an announcement until November at the earliest
Yep.
"Port Adelaide’s search for a new joint major partner has been underway for several weeks, with the club hopeful of making an announcement at the commencement of the new financial year in November."
http://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/2017-09-13/port-and-renault-part-ways
Did you actually expect someone to tell you who the new sponsor is 2 hours after asking if there’s a wiff, that it required you to Bump* ?
Oh god bringing back memories of Cook, Trott, Bell & Pietersen racking up runs for days on end puncutated only 90 times a day by Doug freaking Bollinger on those stupid commercials whilst the real Bollinger was either leaking runs at a rapid rate or dropped from the side.
Did get to see the only test really worth seeing in the flesh though with Johnson's demolition at the WACA. Normal service resumed however immediately afterwards on Boxing Day.
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Cheers good to know.
