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Tesla, Inc. trades under the ticker symbol TSLA on the Nasdaq. This page brings together its live stock price, an interactive price chart, and key fundamentals like market capitalization, 52-week range, dividend yield, and the next earnings date, with plain-English context to help you understand what the numbers mean.
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Tesla pioneered the mass-market electric vehicle and built the largest fast-charging network in the US, which became a meaningful competitive moat. But the company's valuation has rarely been about just selling cars. Investors price in energy storage, autonomous driving, and robotics alongside the automotive business.
Full Self-Driving software is still under heavy development and faces regulatory scrutiny in multiple markets. Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot project is early-stage and speculative. These bets explain why Tesla's price-to-earnings ratio looks extreme compared to traditional automakers.
Elon Musk's other ventures (SpaceX, xAI, X) compete for his attention, which is a real management risk. Tesla's core EV business also faces genuine competition now, from BYD in China and increasingly from legacy automakers globally.
Source: Tesla SEC filings (10-K) and investor relations · Last reviewed June 2026
Tesla, Inc. scores 75 out of 100 (grade B) across the 4 measures we can read from its filings. Its strongest measure is growth (grade A); its weakest is profitability (grade D).
Rule-based grades derived from annual figures reported to the SEC. Descriptive, not a rating of the investment.
Tesla, Inc. grew its revenue explosively (about 33.6% a year) over the 9 years through FY2025 Its profit margin widened over the period. Free cash flow grew alongside profit.
Rising. Revenue went from $7.0B in FY2016 to $94.8B in FY2025, about 33.6% a year. The top line is still expanding, the first sign the business is still in demand.
Steady. Profit went from -$675M in FY2016 to $3.8B in FY2025. The business is keeping more profit over time, not less.
gross margin went from 22.8% to 18.0% (volatile); operating margin went from -9.5% to 4.6% (volatile); net margin went from -9.6% to 4.0% (volatile). Each dollar of sales is turning into more profit over time, often a sign of pricing power or scale.
Steady. Free cash flow went from -$1.4B in FY2016 to $6.2B in FY2025. The profit is showing up as real cash, which is what you want to see.
Derived from the annual figures this company reported to the SEC. What is described already happened; it is not a forecast.
Slipping. Tesla, Inc. keeps about 18.0% of every sales dollar before overhead, and that share has slipped over the last 9 years.
Widening. Tesla, Inc.'s sales grew about 33.6% a year, and its operating margin went from -9.5% to 4.6% over the same period.
Variable. Tesla, Inc.'s operating margin swung widely over the last 9 years (from -9.5% to 4.6%).
The Investment Case describes Tesla, Inc.'s competitive advantages, and the risks that could erode them.
These are the quality measures the financial statements support. Several others, such as brand strength and customer concentration, need human judgment and are not measured automatically.
Historically, the company has primarily reinvested and retained the cash it generated.
On average, capital spending used about 64% of operating cash flow across 8 fiscal years (FY2018-FY2025) - a large share of the cash the business generated went back into it.
The total debt balance rose over the window: about $5.9B in FY2016 vs about $8.2B in FY2025. This describes the balance's direction, not repayments.
As of FY2025, held about $16.5B in cash and equivalents vs about $8.2B of total debt - more cash than total debt at that date.
Derived from annual figures this company reported to the SEC (EDGAR XBRL company facts). Descriptive history only: not a forecast, not a rating, not investment advice.
What has varied in Tesla, Inc.'s past filings, and what to keep an eye on. Descriptive, not a forecast and not a rating.
Tesla sells electric vehicles and runs a fast-growing energy storage business, but its stock price has long reflected bets on things that barely exist yet, such as self-driving robotaxis and humanoid robots. The long-term question is whether Tesla can keep growing deliveries and energy while turning its automation and AI ambitions into real profit.
Educational analysis from public filings. This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
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Sources: Tesla 10-K (SEC EDGAR), Tesla Investor Relations · Last reviewed July 2026
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Tesla sells electric vehicles and runs a fast-growing energy storage business, but its stock price has long reflected bets on things that barely exist yet, such as self-driving robotaxis and humanoid robots. The long-term question is whether Tesla can keep growing deliveries and energy while turning its automation and AI ambitions into real profit.
Tesla built a leading EV brand, a large charging network, and manufacturing scale that newer entrants have struggled to match.
The energy storage segment has scaled quickly and adds a second growth engine beyond cars.
Automotive margins have been squeezed by the price cuts Tesla used to defend volume.
BYD has overtaken Tesla in EV sales volume, and Chinese competition in international markets is intensifying. Elon Musk's political profile and management of X have created brand risk and consumer pushback in key markets.
Tesla trades at a far higher multiple of its earnings than a typical automaker, so today's price assumes years of rapid growth and success in businesses that are still early. Weigh valuation using the company's own filings rather than a third-party estimate.
Quarterly deliveries and automotive gross margin, the two most watched lines.
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