What Tesla Investors Need to Know

Shares of Consumer Discretionary sector company Tesla moved -4.8% today, and are now trading at a price of $197.36. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 134,703,168 compared to its average volume of 115,021,401. The S&P 500 index returned a 1.0% performance.

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, leases, and sells electric vehicles, and energy generation and storage systems in the United States, China, and internationally. The company is based in Austin and has 127,855 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $627,391,660,032.

37 analysts are following Tesla and have set target prices ranging from $22.95 to $358.38 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of hold. At today's prices, TSLA is trading -8.43% away from its average analyst target price of $215.52 per share.

Over the last year, TSLA shares have gone down by -13.0%, which represents a difference of -22.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $299.29 per share and its 52 week low is $101.81. With average free cash flows of $3.77 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 256.6% over the last 6 years, Tesla declining stock performance may not be reflective of the quality of its underlying business.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 13,956,000 7,793,000 6,163,000 -18.54
2022 14,724,000 7,158,000 7,566,000 50.87
2021 11,497,000 6,482,000 5,015,000 80.01
2020 5,943,000 3,157,000 2,786,000 158.44
2019 2,405,000 1,327,000 1,078,000 36033.33
2018 2,098,000 2,101,000 -3,000
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