Tesla Burns Through $620 Million, Loses $13,000 Per Car Made Ahead Of Model 3 Launch

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Traders were looking forward to today’s “black box” earnings from Tesla as it would be the first quarterly report that combined Tesla Motors operations with a full quarter from cash-bleeding monstrocity SolarCity following the pair’s merger, and would also provide much needed information about the “imminent” launch of the Model 3.
And, as usual, Elon Musk managed to fool those who were only focusing on the headline numbers, which were both good and bad: while TSLA missed earnings, reporting a (non-GAAP) 4Q loss per share of $1.33, or $215 million, far worse than the consensus estimate loss of $0.82. On a GAAP basis, the company reported a loss of $330 million, or $2.04 per share, compared with a loss of $283 million or $2.13 a share in the year-earlier quarter. This amount to a loss of over $13,000 for each of the 25,051 cars delivered in the quarter.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 3, 2017.