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Elon Musk and Telsa

Shayne Heffernan Ph.D.
Last updated: January 5, 2021 1:52 am
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After shares rocketed higher in 2020 on surging auto deliveries, Tesla enters 2021 with plenty of momentum even as its vision of taking electric cars mainstream remains a ways off.

Elon Musk and Telsa

The auto industry disruptor led by Elon Musk wowed Wall Street yet again over the weekend, reporting annual car deliveries of 499,550, just shy of its 2020 target of half a million, but well above analyst estimates.

The disclosure capped a year that saw Tesla report a series of profitable quarters and join the S & P 500, establishing the company as one of the world’s most valuable companies and elevating Musk to the second-wealthiest person behind Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Shares were higher again Monday, up 3.9 percent in afternoon trading at $733.00 after the stock engineered a more than 700 percent ascendance in 2020.

The company’s market capitalization of around $700 billion means it is worth more than General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Fiat Chrysler and Volkswagen combined.

Tesla watchers don’t think Musk will be able to match that kind of valuation surge in 2021, but expect continued progress as Tesla adds production capacity and pushes the envelope on new technologies, including autonomous autos.

“In 2020 Tesla had a really unprecedented streak of positive developments, positive news flow in the story,” CFRA Research analyst Garrett Nelson, who is bullish on Tesla, but has a hold on the stock and a 12-month target of $750 a share.

“Now we’re getting to a point where it’s hard to identify what the next positive might be.”

– Still unaffordable to many –

Tesla’s surge reflects optimism as construction continues on new Tesla factories in Texas and Germany, which will accompany existing plants in California and Shanghai that are ramping up production.

A note Monday from Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives cited “white hot” demand in China for electric vehicles as an added source of confidence.

The transition into 2021 will prove to be “a major inflection of EV (electric vehicle) demand globally,” with the technology hitting 10 percent of global cars in 2025 compared with three percent now, Ives said.

“We believe that the China growth story is worth at least $100 per share in a bull case to Tesla as this EV penetration is set to ramp significantly over the next 12 to 18 months, along with major battery innovations coming out of Giga.”

There are also reasons to expect greater uptake of electric cars in the United States following the presidential election of Joe Biden, who has pledged to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations as part of his campaign to address climate change.

Musk has expressed determination to cut the price for Tesla’s electric cars, which currently retail in the US at $37,990 as a starting price.

The Tesla chief is developing battery design, material and production innovations that combine to cut the cost per kilowatt hours by 56 percent.

That should enable Tesla to field a $25,000 model in “three years-ish,” Musk said in September, adding, “it is absolutely critical that we make cars that people can actually afford.”

– Overvalued? –

Musk has “a history of achieving fairly lofty goals,” said iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer, adding that Musk has attained targets “that might seem unrealistic.”

Equity markets tend to be bets on the future, and Tesla’s pole-position on electric autos and other technologies have been the source of its rise.

Still, some analysts believe shares have soared to unrealistic levels.

“Tesla’s performance in 2020 was impressive, but not as impressive as the increase in its shares, which we continue to believe are overvalued,” said a note from JPMorgan Chase, which has an “underweight” on the equity.

“We think global mass adoption of pure electric vehicles is still years away, but Tesla is the leader in the space,” Morningstar said in a note last month.

“Tesla will have growing pains, recessions to fight through before reaching mass-market volume, more competition, and needs to pay off debt. It is important to keep the hype about Tesla in perspective relative to the firm’s limited, though now growing, production capacity.”

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Shayne Heffernan Ph.D. Economist at Knightsbridge holds a Ph.D. in Economics and brings with him over 40 years of trading experience in Asia and hands on experience in Venture Capital, he has been involved in several start ups that have seen market capitalization over $500m and 1 that reach a peak market cap of $15b. He has managed and overseen start ups in Crypto, Mining, Shipping, Technology and Financial Services.
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