The beat is real but thin: GAAP operating income fell 56% to $718 million as R&D spending on autonomy, Optimus and AI compute climbed. Battery supply capped deliveries, leaving the largest passenger vehicle backlog in four years. Margins are now the price of the robotics bet.
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A 3.64% day at $387.31 adds roughly $50 billion of market value to a $1.5 trillion company in a single session. Keep an eye on whether it holds the level into the close.
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SPYheating up fast
Tesla is running away with the board at 491 comments and the mood stays bullish, while traders are souring on Netflix into tech earnings season. The broad-market S&P 500 ETF is heating up fast, a sign retail is leaning into the whole tape.
Source: RedditSpecial committees at both companies mean a SpaceX-Tesla combination is now a live deal process, yet JPMorgan is staying Neutral on Tesla with a $415 target.
JPMorgan lays out potential SpaceX $SPCX, Tesla $TSLA merger terms JPMorgan keeps a Neutral rating on Tesla with a $415 price target after Elon Musk announced that SpaceX and Tesla formed special committees to review a potential merger. The "logic for a combination remains https://t.co/iMh0dhzICq
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Meta tops the board with 1,012 comments and the mood there is souring fast, while traders stay bearish on bitcoin, gold and long Treasuries. Tesla chatter is heating up, and leveraged Nasdaq bets are the one corner Reddit still likes.
Source: RedditDecember 3 gives shareholders a direct vote on Musk's board seat alongside Denholm and Straubel, plus 2025 executive pay, making it the next real governance test for the stock.
Tesla has officially announced that it will hold its annual shareholder meeting on December 3, 2026. There are three items up for a vote: • Re-electing Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel to the board for three-year terms. • A non-binding say-on-pay vote on 2025 executive https://t.co/v4JpVZlAb3
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Record quarterly spending on robots and AI compute means free cash flow gets squeezed before any of it shows up in revenue, so the capex line is the number to check at the next earnings report.
Tesla’s, $TSLA, quarterly capex is set to hit a record on its physical-AI push. https://t.co/g5k5H60sxT
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Bonds returned 14% over the decade, well short of the 39% rise in inflation, while Nvidia returned 13,127%. That gap explains why so many portfolios now lean hard on a handful of AI names.
Last 10 Years... NVIDIA $NVDA: +13,127% Bitcoin $BTC: +12,645% $AMD: +7,733% Tesla $TSLA: +2,607% Apple $AAPL: +1,177% Microsoft $MSFT: +938% Google $GOOGL: +755% Amazon $AMZN: +509% Meta $META: +460% S&P $SPY: +319% Gold $GLD: +220% US Inflation: +39% US Bonds $AGG: +14%
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Kalshi traders now price a Tesla-SpaceX combination at 60% within a year, a record, and one of Tesla's most-followed commentators just pushed it to his feed. That is a crowd probability only.
RT @Kalshi: BREAKING: 60% chance Tesla and SpaceX merge within the next year — an all-time high. https://t.co/O89YScRooX
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Back-to-back Musk earnings days land October 20 and 21, so Tesla's report arrives with SpaceX numbers already setting the mood.
SpaceX has announced that they will release their Q3 earnings on October 20th (next Tuesday). Tesla's Q3 earnings will be on October 21st (next Wednesday). https://t.co/AaAXvJN4TO
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