Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA): Today's Featured Automotive Winner
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Tesla Motors, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and electric vehicle powertrain components. The company offers Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car. Tesla Motors has a market cap of $3.08 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -8.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 1.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Tesla Motors a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and three rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Tesla Motors as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its feeble growth in its earnings per share, deteriorating net income, generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
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