This US$8b MTM profit was used to buffer up Alphabet's earnings and it should be excluded to determine core earnings. It is a non- cash item, which is not subject to corporate tax. Excluding the item, earnings would have been a miss and yet Wall Street is celebrating.
Alphabet’s Profit Gets $8 Billion Boost From SpaceX Investment
All this was talked about when Trump won the election and the market cheered along with Wall Street's strategists so I am surprised by the so called " stunned"'comment. Just last week , Goldman's trading desk was stating that market was due for a bounce. The market is finally realising that American exceptionalism is a myth. trump and his advisors are clueless about the real stent of damage to the economy.
Wall Street Trading Desks Stunned by Once-a-Century Tariff Shock
In late January , Elon guided that vehicle sales would be 20-30% higher in 2025. nobody questioned the assumption and now or how the world would respond when Trump imposes tarriffs and now ....
Tesla Sees Worst Vehicle Sales in 3 Years: ETFs in Focus
The fact that Tesla in January guided for stronger sales in 2026 could be seen as highly deceptive . The company should have known that tariffs and Trinp's policies against China nd Europe and Musk's involvement in Doge would have an impact on sales.
Option Movers|Tesla's $270 Put Sees Heavy Concentration; BAC Sees 60% Call Options though Plunging 6%
ROIC is historical and means little unless they have a strategy to maintain that . With so much funds allocated to buy backs at elevated levels , i think the argument for superior ROIC is spurious . Fact is that consumers have greater choice now , including Deepseek and Apple is unlikely to be able to monetise Apple Iintelligence for a subscription fee. Conclusion: Apple is overvalued and Buffett is right
Before all the so called Robotics takes place .. folks will dump Tesla cars . As it stands , the Tesla value of Tesla cars is plummeting. If we look at yearly growth , Tesla sales actually declined in 2024z Mush has guided for growrh in 2025, but frankly that looks like a stretch coz Chin Se buyers are likely to give it a miss given the political tension between The Musk led US administration and China. Next China is already leading in robotics and the notion that Musk's a robots will replace US workers is a piped dream.. it would be essentially ceding control over to Musk. Corporate America will certainly hedge their bets . meanwhile Tesla is likely to hit $300 by 1H25. almost half of Wedbush's $ 550 target.