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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm Pim

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Speaker 1: There is a lot of pessimism around Tesla these days,

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Speaker 1: so much so that Ellen Musk decided to joke about

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Speaker 1: the fact that the company was filing for bankruptcy as

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Speaker 1: an April Fool's joke. Here to talk about the bull

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Speaker 1: case for Tesla is Philippe h equity analyst at Jeffrey's

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Speaker 1: coming to us from London. Philip, there is so much

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Speaker 1: negativity around Tesla right now as people ratchet down their

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Speaker 1: production estimates. H, I'm wondering, what's the bull case here?

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Speaker 1: Very morning, I'll qualify your coming. Um. We we upgrade

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Speaker 1: from on the performed to hold day. Talking about the

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Speaker 1: world case is probably a bit premature. Um. Although we

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Speaker 1: have some some admiration and sympathy for what Tesla has

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Speaker 1: achieved so far, our view is mostly that a lot

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Speaker 1: of that news have been crystallized in the shower price

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Speaker 1: last week and apparently today as well, and we think

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Speaker 1: at this stage the probability of management getting a bit

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Speaker 1: more curious about capital, structure, funding and guidance is likely

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Speaker 1: to stick as a show price. Well, just to just

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Speaker 1: to push back a little bit, I think that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are watching the bonds right now and

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Speaker 1: watching the prices sink, basically locking Tesla out of the

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Speaker 1: unsecured bond market. A lot of people believe that Tesla

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Speaker 1: will have to raise equity and I'm just wondering, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they can't raise four billion dollars by the first

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Speaker 1: quarter next year, uh, They're debt could easily come under

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Speaker 1: more pressure. At what point, you know, does this become

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Speaker 1: a spiral? You know? Absolutely? I mean we were factored

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Speaker 1: in the two point five to three billion capital race

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Speaker 1: be mix of equity and debt. At this stage it

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Speaker 1: seems like it would be higher than what we have

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Speaker 1: in our estimates and also very much no weighted those

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Speaker 1: is more severe, and raising capital in those circumstances with

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Speaker 1: what happening in the bond side isn't easy. At the

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Speaker 1: same time, we've seen before is if you raise capital

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Speaker 1: in a what we call it professional manner, that you

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Speaker 1: reassure investors that you have desition of something, you have

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Speaker 1: a plan um, then you de risk the profile investment

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Speaker 1: profiles the company, and I think that's possibly an opportune

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Speaker 1: It isn't able to Testla today, so we need to

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Speaker 1: be aware of the risk of more capital needed to

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Speaker 1: be raised. At the same time, the benefit of stabilizing

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Speaker 1: the story in the balance sheet is not to be

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Speaker 1: to be neglected either. At what point do you believe

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Speaker 1: investors will step back and lenders will not want to

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Speaker 1: lend the company any more money. Is there a specific

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Speaker 1: challenge that Tesla has and is there a time frame? Well,

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Speaker 1: as we said before, I know a lot of the

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Speaker 1: issues around Tesla are self inflicted. UM I think the

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Speaker 1: market will probably welcome a slight pause in this aggressive

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Speaker 1: guidance better visibility on how reasonably productively ramped up. So

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Speaker 1: it's a combination of how the company is willing to

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Speaker 1: package your message um allebal credibility on what can be achieving,

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Speaker 1: What is too optimistic, and of course the amounts involved,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's it's a difficult balance, um,

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Speaker 1: right time to do it. Because of what seemed that

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Speaker 1: it might have been a short term issue. It has

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Speaker 1: been a short term issue for three quarters now, so

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Speaker 1: it no longer qualifies and they need to do something

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Speaker 1: a bit more um drastic, I think, to stimilize the

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Speaker 1: equity story and something, you know, Philippe. One thing that

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Speaker 1: I'm struggling to get my mind around is what is

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Speaker 1: the main problem that that the Tesla faces right now?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a financing problem? Is it the

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Speaker 1: fact that they have overpromised and underlivered quarter after quarter

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Speaker 1: with the Model three delivery expected to also underwhelm people,

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Speaker 1: or is it a management issue? And what we saw

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Speaker 1: It is well known that in manufacturing there is a

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Speaker 1: are very high. And then there's another question mark, but

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Speaker 1: it's very much a question mark is whether some of

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Speaker 1: the proud development has lacked the invalidation, in which case

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Speaker 1: some of the components may not be totally validated, and

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Speaker 1: by the current management. But Philippe, it's not even just

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Speaker 1: the current management. A recent review by Car and Driver

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Speaker 1: magazine about the Tesla Model three said, quote, it's difficult

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Speaker 1: in that real world seventy five mile power highway fuel

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Speaker 1: If it gets even colder, the range will be even worse.

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Speaker 1: That's not a management issue, that's a technical issue. That

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Speaker 1: is a product concept issue, and it's something that has

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Speaker 1: been has been part of the development of electric cars,

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Speaker 1: and it seems to be maybe a perception among investors

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Speaker 1: or customers that they can be a seamless transition away

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Speaker 1: from unbush engine cars into electric cars. And the reality

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Speaker 1: is still very much technology that is underdevelopment, underdevelopment um

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Speaker 1: with no disappointments on the way as well as excacting

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Speaker 1: no development in terms of no driving agreement. And so

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's I think there has been a

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Speaker 1: lot of different opinions, some negative in some sources more positive.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very much a product that is evolving

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Speaker 1: and that may be a surprise for investor residents. Do

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Speaker 1: you do you drive a Tesla? I do not? Okay, alright,

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Speaker 1: just checking, Thanks very much. Uh. Philippe Husha He is

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Speaker 1: equity analyst for Jefferies joining us from London, talking about

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Speaker 1: Tesla and the company's future. Right now, the company's stock

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Speaker 1: is down nearly seven percent, shares a Tesla lower by

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Speaker 1: more than eighteen dollars a share. Well, China retaliated against

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Speaker 1: the US getting slapped with tariffs. We're talking pork, We're

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Speaker 1: in in size and in scope. So you know, the

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Speaker 1: China US standoff? It isn't more severe than perhaps some

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Speaker 1: people are counting on with US. I am so pleased

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Speaker 1: to bring in Bill Rhodes, President and Chief Executive of

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Speaker 1: William R. Rhodes Global Advisors, better known as Banker to

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Speaker 1: for being here. So what do you make of the

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Speaker 1: Pim as always uh. I think no one should be

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Speaker 1: we can't just talk about trade with China. We also

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Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: so far, markets are taking the tariff talk as more bike,

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Speaker 1: not forget where Ali Baba has come in ten years

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Speaker 1: The Qualcom situation in particular, they've held up this, uh

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Speaker 1: Bill Rhodes, in January, you penned an op ed piece,

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Speaker 1: and you've put your pen to paper many times the

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Speaker 1: book Banker to the world. What did you say in

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Speaker 1: that op ed piece? And maybe you could just reiterate

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Speaker 1: it for people. Thank you for mentioning that pim I

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Speaker 1: basically predicted um that we would have a correction of ten.

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Speaker 1: will go on forever, and of course the FEDS taking

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Speaker 1: you know, I think as a major preoccupation, uh for

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Speaker 1: maybe just as important and more important is we're reducing

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Speaker 1: that balance sheet, the quantitative easing, and as that money

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Speaker 1: That's correct, UM. And so if you if you look

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Speaker 1: And right now there are ninety different companies. I think

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Speaker 1: cup itself. UM. You know, like like you would see

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Speaker 1: And if that's the case, then it becomes a little

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Speaker 1: Just in California, I imagine that it could potentially dent sales,

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Speaker 1: though people don't really want to see a skull and

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Speaker 1: it's in all honesty, you know, because because anytime there's

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Speaker 1: know that it may not be the best for you.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not the worst thing that most people put

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Speaker 1: And more of a greater concern is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: actually asking four fines as much as each person who

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Speaker 1: you could be talking about, you know, a potential of

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Speaker 1: to pay. All the shares of Starbucks they are lower

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