Elon Musks EV company lost a quarter of its value after revealing weak profits and high spending on AI and robotics
Tesla s stock fell about 13.5% on Thursday in one of the biggest single-day market losses in the companys history.
Elon Musk s automaker has struggled throughout the year, losing about 27% of its market value as huge capital expenditures and weaker-than-expected profits worry investors.
US stocks as a whole tumbled on Thursday with Nasdaq down more than 2% after touching its lowest level since early May as the latest earnings updates from large technology companies 66revived concerns about heavy AI 66spending, while soaring oil prices amped 67up inflation worries and pushed up bond yields.
The S&P 500 and the Dow exchanges fell more than 1% after second-quarter results from Alphabet and Tesla, the first of the so-called Magnificent Seven megacap companies to report this season, failed to impress 66investors.
Teslas market losses come the day after it released its second-quarter earnings , which revealed the company made 31 cents per share as opposed to the 51 cents per share that Wall Street analysts expected, a proxy measure for the companys profitability. Though it did beat revenue predictions, a sharp selloff in Tesla stock has followed.
Musk faced numerous questions from investors on Wednesdays earnings call about the timeline and logistics of the two projects he has most heavily touted C Teslas driverless Robotaxi car service and Optimus humanoid robot. Musk has for years promoted both products as world-changing sources of near-infinite potential revenue, but the rollout has been slow and Musk has repeatedly failed to meet his own targets. Teslas Robotaxis are available only on a limited basis in the US, and Optimus is not available to consumers.
Musk attempted to assuage investor concerns on Wednesdays call by once again proclaiming that Optimus robots would be Teslas biggest product ever, but cautioned that there were numerous hurdles the company faced in creating the product. He similarly claimed that Robotaxis slow rollout was the result of an abundance of concern for safety and worry that deadly accidents would result in negative media attention and a regulatory crackdown.
Teslas pivot to robotics, autonomous vehicles and AI has required immense amount of investments with little immediate return. The company spent $5.8bn in the second quarter of this year, resulting in negative free cashflow of $1.1bn for the first time in more than two years. Although its electric vehicle sales surged on the strength of European buyers and rising fuel costs, Teslas spending on its new products has shifted investor focus away from its auto revenue.
Teslas loss in stock value makes it the poorest-performing of the magnificent seven companies, which also include Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, Apple and Microsoft. The group suffered declines across the board on Thursday, with Bloomberg reporting that their losses wiped out $767bn from the market.
Shares of Googles parent, Alphabet, fell 6.5% after reporting higher spending plans and its first 67ever cash burn. Wall Streets fear gauge, the CBOE Volatility Index, was up three points, at 19.64, after hitting its highest level in nearly a month.
埃隆·马斯克旗下的电动汽车公司因披露利润疲软及人工智能与机器人领域的高额支出，市值缩水四分之一
特斯拉股价周四下跌约13.5%，创下该公司历史上最大的单日市值跌幅之一。
埃隆·马斯克旗下的汽车制造商今年举步维艰，由于巨额资本支出和低于预期的利润令投资者担忧，其市值已缩水约27%。
周四美国股市整体下挫，纳斯达克指数下跌逾2%，触及5月初以来最低水平。大型科技公司最新财报重新引发市场对人工智能巨额支出的担忧，同时油价飙升加剧通胀忧虑并推高债券收益率。
在谷歌母公司Alphabet和特斯拉公布第二季度财报后，标普500指数和道琼斯指数均下跌超过1%。这两家公司是本季度首批公布业绩的“美股七巨头”成员，但其财报表现未能打动投资者。
特斯拉在公布第二季度财报后次日遭遇市值缩水。财报显示其每股收益为31美分，远低于华尔街分析师预期的51美分（该指标通常反映企业盈利能力）。尽管公司营收超出预期，但随后特斯拉股价仍出现大幅抛售。
在周三的财报电话会议上，马斯克（Elon Musk）面临投资者关于特斯拉两大重点项目的诸多提问——无人驾驶出租车（Robotaxi）服务和Optimus人形机器人的时间表及实施方案。多年来，马斯克一直将这两款产品宣传为具有近乎无限收入潜力、足以改变世界的项目，但推进速度缓慢，且屡次未能达成其预设目标。目前特斯拉Robotaxi仅在美国有限范围内运营，而Optimus尚未面向消费者开放。
马斯克在周三的电话会议上试图缓解投资者的担忧，他再次宣称Optimus机器人将成为特斯拉有史以来最重要的产品，但同时也提醒公司在研发过程中面临诸多挑战。他同样表示，Robotaxi的缓慢推出是出于对安全的高度重视，担心致命事故会引发负面媒体报道和监管机构的严厉打击。
特斯拉向机器人、自动驾驶汽车和人工智能领域的转型需要巨额投资，但短期内回报甚微。该公司今年第二季度投入58亿美元，导致自由现金流出现11亿美元的负值，这是两年多来的首次。尽管欧洲消费者的强劲需求和燃油价格上涨推动了其电动汽车销量的激增，但特斯拉在新产品上的巨额支出已使投资者的关注焦点从汽车营收转移。
特斯拉股价下跌使其成为"美股七巨头"中表现最差的企业，其他六家公司分别为字母表（Alphabet）、亚马逊、Meta、英伟达、苹果和微软。周四该集团股票全线下跌，彭博社报道称其市值蒸发高达7670亿美元。
谷歌母公司Alphabet在公布更高的支出计划及首次出现现金消耗后，股价下跌6.5%。华尔街恐慌指标——CBOE波动率指数（VIX）在触及近一个月最高水平后上涨3点，报19.64。
