Tesla: Already Living in Its Own Future Tense
@orsiri:
A Valuation That Assumes the Ending I see Tesla in May 2026 as the market’s boldest intellectual gamble—a company priced not on what it earns, but on whether it can industrialise autonomy before reality reasserts itself. At roughly $381 per share and a market capitalisation near $1.4 trillion, Tesla is being valued less as a business and more as a thesis. The numbers themselves are almost mischievous. A trailing P/E above 340 and a forward multiple near 180 would be ambitious even for a pure software firm, let alone a company still generating the majority of its revenue from manufacturing. Yet Tesla sits here comfortably, as if gravity were more of a suggestion than a law. The tension is unmistakable. The financials describe a company still wearing steel-toe boots. The valuation assumes it