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Speaker 1: rally in the shares of Tesla after the company reports

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Speaker 1: his first quarterly profit and a positive free cash flow. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Here to tell us more about it is David Coudla.

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Speaker 1: He is, of course, the chief investment strategist, founder and

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Speaker 1: we turned out to Mr Coula to learn more about Tesla. So, David,

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Speaker 1: are you a believer or are you still skeptical about Tesla?

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Speaker 1: I am still skeptical skeptical about Tesla, and I am

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Speaker 1: was very excited about the news yesterday very excited about

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Speaker 1: the rally and after hours trading. Unfortunately, I was only

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Speaker 1: able to short the stock at a high of three

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Today. Maybe I'll have another chance to short

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Speaker 1: it higher. It's trading about three twelve now. Um. But

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Speaker 1: you know, we we expected with yearning announcement pull ahead,

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Speaker 1: we'd have some good results, and we did even better

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Speaker 1: than expected. But it's about the sustainability of those results,

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Speaker 1: which we don't think they could maintain, and all that

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Speaker 1: results and as good as they are, best quarter by

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Speaker 1: far in two years. Uh, you know, everything negative cash flow, negative,

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Speaker 1: earnings negative in this whopping quarter and the stock is

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Speaker 1: trading at three eleven. Yeah. Well, actually I was going

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Speaker 1: to just say, what is your target? Because I'm looking

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Speaker 1: right now. Bank of America, Mary Lynch. Their target is

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Speaker 1: two hundred dollars underperform. Goldman Sachs target to sell. Cowen

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Speaker 1: price target to fifty underperform. What's your price target? Our

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Speaker 1: twelve month price target on the stock is one eight,

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Speaker 1: and we think that longer term, the stock has to

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Speaker 1: settle somewhere, uh, down between a hundred and a hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty and we and we say that just compare

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Speaker 1: to stocks, compare to automakers general motors trading at a

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Speaker 1: PE of about five or six. And if we take

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Speaker 1: this number and extrapolate it a number which we don't

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Speaker 1: think they can maintain in terms of earnings. UH. Going forward,

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Speaker 1: Tesla is trading at would be trading at a price

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Speaker 1: to earnings multiple at forty to fifty times, which is

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Speaker 1: we know that as we go forward, they have a

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Speaker 1: debt repayment that Elon must said in the call last

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Speaker 1: night would probably mean a flat you know, no earnings

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Speaker 1: other operations to fund. And we know, you know, when

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Speaker 1: able to say they built five thousand vehicles in one week.

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Speaker 1: It's just that it's someday that the stock comes down

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars a share, how do you respond, David,

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Speaker 1: to those investors or even those analysts who say that

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Speaker 1: Tesla is not just an automobile company. Tesla is a

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Speaker 1: technology company, and it will expand its offering to not

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Speaker 1: just include automobiles sold through their own dealerships, but an

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Speaker 1: might might be preaching. David Coodla, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us and sharing your views. David Coodla's founder,

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer, and chief investment strategist of Mainstay Capital

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Speaker 1: Bold call shares below two hundred and the next twelve

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Speaker 1: so has the Chinese government. What do we make of this?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but Clint Watts probably does. He's senior

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Speaker 1: an FBI Special Agent on Joint Terrorism, I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 1: definitely the case. Domestics should be our main focus as

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Speaker 1: opposed to international. But even going back about six years,

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Speaker 1: a very popular activity. Well, we're very glad you didn't win,

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Speaker 1: because We're very glad to have had you here. Brian

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Speaker 1: Edgar is our senior Gaming and Lodging analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence,

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