In my last article, I expressed how we have just entered the second phase of the bear market where corporate earnings start to fall due to weak consumer demand. This thesis is supported by Michael Burry, who claims that despite the worst start to a year in five decades, we are only halfway through the bear market. Even Chicken Genius Singapore said in his latest video that he is bearish in the short term as he expects earnings to fall.The current macroeconomic issues definitely pose a heavy challenge to US companies as consumer sentiment starts to fade in anticipation of an inevitable recession. Since the start of the year, companies have been issuing weak forward guidance as they struggle to satisfy investors who have been expecting a post-pandemic economic boom. This led to phase one of
$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ Price close: 673.42 (June 30) Market cap: $697.9 billion YTD change: -36.3% PE Ratio (TTM): 90.7 2021 is a wonderful year for Elon Musk, successfully being the richest man in the world due to soaring market cap of Tesla, while in 2022, his words aroused criticism to some extent, and Tesla also needs improving. Due to the tremendous sales amount of Model 3, Tesla posted a record 310,000 deliveries and an operating margin of 19% in Q1, leading the whole EV market booming. However, due to inflation and supply chain crisis, Tesla has to raise prices several times, At the
@TigerStars Elliott Wave Technical Analysis Stock Market Trading NASDAQ, AMZN, AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL, BRK, SQ, META, MSFT, BAC, JPM. $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ $Apple(AAPL)$ Elliott Wave Technical Analysis Stocks are in the later stages of the move down (5) of C) of II. That said we are currently in a bear market rally. Covering Tesla TSLA, Amazon AMZN, Nvidia (NVDA), Apple AAPL, Microsoft MSFT, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/B),Block, Inc (SQ), Facebook FB, Meta Platforms, Alphabet GOOGL. XFL Finance Sector ETF, JPMorgan JPM & Bank of America BAC.Stock Market Summary: An Elliott Imp
The electric vehicle competition is intense and only to get worse as legacy automakers as well as tech companies are rushing into the space to fight for a pie of it.Buffett famously said that this isn't a good sign as a similar pattern happened to gasoline car makers in the 1920s. There were over 2,000 brands and only 3 remained and all were not doing well. Competition kills profits.Ironically, he invested in BYD, $BYD COMPANY(01211)$the China EV maker in 2008. Perhaps it was less competitive in those days and BYD had other businesses that include making batteries as well as electronics assembly.Berkshire bought BYD stake for $232 million and it is now worth $9.3 billion. That is a 39x return in 14 years or a compounded annual return of 30%.The v