Consider This Before Taking a Position in TSLA

By Chris Stiles • Tuesday, October 18 12:00 • Permanent Link

After months of decline, Tesla has seemingly reversed the trend with a 7.0% change today, compared to 0.5% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $219.35? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally.
Tesla belongs to the Consumer Cyclical sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.11 and an average price to book (P/B) of 3.11
The company's P/B ratio is 9.2
Tesla has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 219.8 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) of $1.0 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 35.6 is, based on its 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $1.0
TSLA has a Price to Earnings Growth ratio of 1.58, which shows the company has a fair value when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Tesla, has averaged free cash flows of $1,736,500,000.00, which on average grew 249.1%
TSLA's gross profit margins have averaged 20.4 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 11.7 % and a coefficient of variability of 18.2 %.
TSLA has an average analyst rating of buy and is -75.06% away from its mean target price of $879.36 per share

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