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Short-Term TSLA Price Movements - 2016

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Okay I misunderstood your point. But I'm not ready to give up on positive cash flow by Q4 or earlier yet.

SCTY impact won't happen for about 2-3 months after due diligence is completed which means:
No impact on Tesla until Q3 or Q4.

SCTY plans to be cash flow positive by Q4. So by Q3 the impact should be small and by Q4 it should be positive, which will probably surprise the market. In any case it's possible that the SCTY acquisition could improve the prospects for positive cash flow by Q4.

What are you basing your optimism of TSLA cashflow positive on?

The very purpose of the recent capital raise is to spend it on CapEx and infrastructure. If they were to achieve positive cashflow this quickly why raise capital at all? and cause the dilution and investor fury?? If you are talking about one fluke coincidental qrtr, every one in the market knows that it is fluke, why would market positively react to it? In fact, ironically, a positive cashflow might actually mean that they are not making enough progress on model-3! Sustained cash flow positive will not begin until volume deliveries of Model-3. That is ways away.

I was talking about EPS with regards to SCTY. You are talking about cash-flow. Even if we were to focus on cash-flow, there are many elements here. Firstly, SCTY cachflow is including non-recourse debt. Not sure if market appreciates that sort of vocabulary with regards to Tesla. Secondly, that is merely guidance. Just like Tesla, SCTY has been consistently missing guidance pretty much on every metric. This cash-flow thing is a mirage it will not happen for SCTY any time soon. Thirdly, most importantly, even if SCTY adds a tiny positive cash-flow, that will by no means be anywhere close to changing the cashflow on the parent, given that the parent is precisely designed to be cashflow negative (and hence the need for capital raise).

On an unrelated note, your timeline of SCTY merger is totally off. Here is Musk on the merger CC:

"then we'll move into a diligence phase very quickly. Hopefully, diligence can take place promptly, so in the next two weeks, three weeks, and we can get to a place where everything makes sense, that there's a signed merger agreement."
 
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Options pricing is getting rather interesting. As it hovers here around 212.50-213, the weekly 212.50 call is in the 3.50 range and the 212.50 put is in the 4.25 range. Significant disparity.

Put-call parity breaks down when there are no shares available to short (otherwise there would be an arbitrage opportunity).

Investors looking to enter TSLA here can take advantage of this to guarantee themselves a discount to the current share price by selling an ATM put and buying an ATM call. That would guarantee an entry point at the current share price and allow them to pocket the difference between the put-call premiums.
 
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In the last two trading days Tesla annouced a bad deliveries miss and that someone died using autopilot. Yet the stock is up. A stock rising on bad news is an extreme buy signal.

Ford and GM are down nearly twice as much today. The time for Bulls to be worried is when the stock is trading really high and all the good news is out and you have to wonder where the next round of buyers will come from. The time for shorts to worry is when all the bad news is out and you have to wonder where the next round of sellers will come from. Shares are hard to borrow and it's hard to imagine what bad news you could be banking on now.
 
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