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Following Tesla’s Q3 2021 earnings report on Wednesday, a prior executive from the company has recommended to investors not to bet against the company – especially given the company’s gross margins.
Tesla’s Former President, Jon McNeill, said on Thursday that investors shouldn’t bet against Tesla, despite not currently being a shareholder in the automaker, according to a segment on CNBC.
On Squawk Box, McNeill said that Tesla’s stock is currently “priced to perfection,” but that the electric vehicle (EV) revolution will likely be a “multi-decade growth story” of which we’re just seeing the beginning.
In the interview, McNeill said, “The gross margins are approaching 30%, just to put that in perspective, that is three times the gross margin level at GM, and about six times the gross margin level of Ford.”
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McNeill left Tesla in 2018 to become an executive at Lyft, though he now works as the CEO of DVx Ventures, a venture capitalist firm.
In addition to the company’s gross margins, McNeill pointed towards Tesla’s numbers year-over-year next to Ford, General Motors (GM) and others, in addition to the company “sitting now on $16 billion USD cash.”
Tesla is nearly ready to open its Gigafactories in Berlin, Brandenburg and Austin, Texas, and with 241,300 vehicles delivered in Q4, the company seems well-poised entering the fourth quarter.
As of writing, Tesla’s stock is up 3% for the day at $892 per share, as the company looks to set an all-time high again, soon.
