While Mizuho remains constructive on the broader EV landscape, near-term EV demand and tightening liquidity are creating challenges into 2025E and downgrades all 3 stocks. Mizuho now sees 2024 EV growth at 15% y/y (prior 25% y/y) and 2025 +17% (prior +25% y/y) with the analyst citing decelerating growth, higher EV inventories (2x ICE), low consumer affordability, China EV price war, and EV subsidy cuts in US/EU as other reasons they are less positive.
For TSLA, Mizuho is at 445k vs street at 470k (TMTB: Troy Teslike cut his # to 407k yesterday and buyside closer to 410-415k) as the analyst sees rising Model Y inventories in US/EU and slower M3 Fremont ramps.
Separately, Oppenheimer puts out a less negative note, saying they believe Q1 could lead to a final near-term cut on TSLA estimates as believe the wider release of FSD v 12.3 should accelerate training data collection and trigger incremental deferred revenue recognition in Q124. However, they also cut Q1 delivery to 468k from 510k.
財經台韭菜2024-03-27 10:47:00
Bernstein lowered the firm's price target on Tesla to $120 from $150 and keeps an Underperform rating on the shares. Tesla has experienced "soft" China and Europe demand quarter-to-date as well as "constrained" U.S. Model 3 production, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm reduced its Q1 forecast to 426,000 units from 490,000 and fiscal 2024 estimate to 1.98M unit from 2.12M. It also introduced a fiscal 2025 earnings per share estimate of $2.22, below the consensus of $3.69. Tesla's share price remains high on almost every valuation metric compared to both traditional and higher-growth auto makers, and also looks expensive relative to its reduced growth expectations when measured against tech comps, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Bernstein's discounted cash flow analysis now points to fair value of $93 per share, down from $120, primarily due to lowered estimates for terminal margins, but also due to a push-out in electric vehicle adoption growth.
財經台韭菜2024-03-27 10:48:38
As the push-pull between investors continues to be weaker numbers vs. excitement around FSD. Better FSD implications 3 fold:
1 - earnings impact if attach rate is high. Allows people to look through NT eps weakness. Just 10% attach rate could add 5% to EPS.
2- Will potentially drive better units
3 - turns around sentiment, including retail sentiment which has been leaving the stock for sexier AI plays.