Tesla profits cut in half as demand falls
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The EV maker brings forward launch plans for new models as profits drop by more than half.

Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes.

Despite plans to bring forward new models originally planned for next year the firm is cutting its workforce.

Tesla said it would lose 3,332 jobs in California and 2,688 positions in Texas, starting mid-June.

The cuts in Texas represent 12% of Tesla’s total workforce of almost 23,000 in the area where its gigafactory and headquarters are located.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    7 months ago

    It’s sad to say, but I’m glad we’re at a point where shareholders now look at job cuts as a negative, and layoffs don’t result in an increase in share price.

    Amazon have been cutting jobs for their third year running now, on top of URA, and the only thing keeping our CEO in a job right now is happy shareholders.

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        God fucking damnit, I hate Wall Street.

        We sold fewer cars than expected, lost money, revealed that even though we’re making 1000 Cybertrucks a week we’ve only sold 4000 of them and had to recall every single one because we fucking glued the foot pad onto the accelerator pedal, and had our lying sack of shit CEO’s compensation nerfed by a judge so in response we’re gonna fire 6000 people.

        Line go up.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        7 months ago

        Zoom out about a week.

        Its fair to say that last week, TSLA was oversold and is now bouncing back from that. But the -55% profits and -$2.3ish Billion FCF are bad numbers.

        TSLA is down from $180, where it was just a few weeks ago. $140 prices this past week apparently was too low, but there’s no chance in hell that TSLA goes back up to pre-Q1 announcement numbers. Q1 2024 was awful. Declining sales around the world in all major areas: China, Europe, AND USA. They’re weak everywhere.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        HFT algorithmic robo-traders still gonna scalp daily delta, often in an incestuous and self-reinforcing cycle based on financial headlines

        I’ve been bearish on Tesla for years, but it’s getting increasingly obvious with growing EV competition that their market cap is/was absurd hype that defies fundamentals or even possible value if Tesla was a monopoly

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          A 6 month chart is supposed to correlate with the effect of today’s layoffs announcement?

          • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            7 months ago

            The layoffs were known last week though.

            Sure, the news is finally talking about the layoffs, but people were locked out of their badges and complaining last week about this. So now its official today, but it was public knowledge last week when that price declined dramatically.

            So the employees were nominally on the books until today. Big woop. They stopped working a week ago and complained about it online. You can’t hide a mass of 10,000+ sad and angry employees talking shit about Tesla. The stock moved on that before the official layoff announcement today.

    • Guest_User@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      I don’t think they do view it as negative, their stock is climbing aggressively on this news.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Well. It’s climbing based on today’s news.

        The layoffs have been known for a while so it seems more likely that it’s climbing based on other factors, like the hokum about still focusing on a low-prices car.