Gigapress
Trying to be less wrong
So in Q1 we had about $300M of extra ZEV credits compared to recent average. That was an extra $1k per car bonus which came out to around $0.09/share post-split. $1.07-0.09 = $0.98 non-gaap comparable to Q3.Yahoo! Finance has lowered their EPS Consensus a couple of pennies to $1.01.
For reference:
- Tesla sold 310,048 EVs in Q1 2022 resulting in actual EPS of $1.07.
- Tesla sold 343,830 EVs in Q3 2022 resulting in actual EPS of...
I expect another significant Beat in the cards coming right up.
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11% higher deliveries, assume $300M less ZEV credits, and yet earnings only 3% higher?
How did they get these estimates? I haven't looked at the institutional analyst models recently but honestly I am baffled.