Tesla's earnings report will include refocusing on its car business, and it comes as competition heats up

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In today's large story, Tesla reports net this day pinch nan focus backmost connected its cars business.

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  • Markets: Breaking down nan 74-page slideshow activistic investor Starboard presented to Pfizer.
  • Tech: Amazon's $100 cardinal information halfway dream is turning into a spot of a nightmare.
  • Business: A deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's sent its stock value tumbling.

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The large story

Tesla nan car company

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Tesla has spent plentifulness of clip discussing nan future, but Wall Street wants to bring nan EV elephantine backmost to nan present.

Elon Musk's institution reports third-quarter net this afternoon, and analysts are focused connected its halfway car business. Business Insider's Matthew Fox has a rundown connected analysts' expectations up of Tesla's large day.

(To get real-time updates connected Tesla's earnings, beryllium judge to cheque retired our live blog here.)

Musk has spent clip talking up everything but nan cars his institution presently sells. From robotaxis to autonomous vehicles and bartending bots, Tesla's net calls person been heavy focused connected what's adjacent alternatively of what's now.

Tesla has bully logic to debar talking astir nan present. Its income dropped for 2 consecutive quarters before righting nan vessel successful Q3. It'll now return a monolithic 4th fourth for its 2024 income to eclipse past year's figure.

Touting robotaxis and pitching nan institution arsenic a leader successful artificial intelligence has eased nan symptom (and helped nan banal price), but moreover that has its limit. Tesla's stock value is still down much than 12% year-to-date aft its flashy robotaxi arena mostly fell level pinch investors.

That's why each eyes are backmost connected its halfway business of trading cars, including nan position of its industry-leading profit margins.

The study could awesome nan worst is down Tesla … aliases is yet to come.

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Tesla besides needs to interest astir what's successful its rearview mirror.

General Motors' third-quarter net study topped estimates, starring to a astir 10% surge successful its stock. Part of its occurrence included improved EV maturation and profitability, writes BI's Benjamin Zhang. GM now holds a 9.8% stock of nan US market, trailing only Tesla.

That comes during what's been an wide reliable clip for nan EV market. (But a bully clip for immoderate who's successful nan marketplace for one!)

While nan manufacture continues to grow, it's astatine a overmuch slower gait than a fewer years ago. Automakers person been forced to readjust their strategy astir breaking into nan market.

Overseas, things aren't overmuch amended for Tesla. China, nan world's largest car marketplace and an area of maturation for Tesla, has gotten progressively competitive. Domestic rivals recently posted a grounds period for sales, and China's EV giants stole nan show astatine Europe's largest car show.


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  1. Activist investor Starboard aired its grievances to Pfizer. The hedge fund, which reportedly has a $1 cardinal liking successful nan supplier giant, precocious presented a 74-page slideshow to Pfizer. Its complaints included a deficiency of R&D walk and a nonaccomplishment to present connected its supplier pipeline.
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3 things successful tech

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  3. Does anyone cognize what Disney's post-Bob Iger scheme is? The company's announcement that it would sanction a caller CEO successful 2026 — acold later than astir expected — has near more questions than answers. The stakes are high: Disney flubbed Iger's past exit scheme truthful severely that it had to bring him backmost aft little than 2 years.

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