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(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. reported a fifth consecutive quarter of profits Wednesday, handily beating analysts’ estimates, and said it remains on track to deliver 500,000 cars in 2020 despite weaker sales in the rest of the global auto industry.The earnings streak could add momentum for Tesla’s inclusion in the S&P 500 Index and defies a downbeat trend among other automakers struggling to overcome a pandemic-induced slump. The Palo Alto, California-based company reported third-quarter profit of 76 cents a share on an adjusted basis, surpassing analysts’ consensus estimate for 55 cents a share.Shares of the company rose as much as 4.5% in aftermarket trading Wednesday after closing at $422.64. The stock is up 405% so far this year.Tesla’s gross margins inched up more than 250 basis points in the quarter to 23.5%, while operating margins grew to 9.2% — even after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk received $290 million for hitting compensation targets.“What jumped out to me is gross margins,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures. “That’s the machine that keeps the machine growing. They are making more money from each car.”Fourth Quarter FocusTesla said it would meet its goal of delivering half a million cars worldwide this year, a target it wavered on after last quarter’s earnings and CEO Musk last month hinted might not come to pass. The company needs to deliver more than 181,000 cars in the last three months of the year to hit that mark, which would be a 30% jump over the previous quarter.“While achieving this goal has become more difficult, delivering half a million vehicles in 2020 remains our target,” the company said in a statement. This will largely depend on increased production at its Shanghai factory and higher output of its Model Y, it said.In January, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Tesla predicted it would “comfortably exceed” deliveries of 500,000 vehicles for the full year, a 36% increase from 2019. Still, the company’s likely double-digit growth stands out in a year when global auto industry deliveries are projected to be 14% below pre-Covid estimates and down 22% from last year, according to LMC Automotive.In addition to its mainstay Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover, the company also manufactures the older and higher-priced Model X SUV and Model S sports sedan. Its flagship factory in Fremont, California, now has capacity to make 590,000 vehicles a year: 500,000 3 and Y and 90,000 of the S and X.Tesla said Wednesday deliveries of its Semi will start next year, four years after the big rig was first revealed.Credit Sales DownTesla’s revenue rose to a better-than-expected $8.8 billion, even as sales of regulatory credits to other automakers fell to $397 million. That was down from $428 million in the second quarter.“Regulatory credits are a big part of the EPS beat,” said analyst Ben Kallo of Robert W. Baird. “But that’s part of the game: Tesla’s competitors are paying them, and Tesla is reinvesting that into their factories in Berlin and Texas.”The electric-car maker earns money by selling credits to manufacturers that need them to comply with carbon-emissions standards in California, Europe and elsewhere. Investors view this revenue as a double-edged sword because they want to know Tesla can be profitable from its core business: making and selling cars.When S&P failed to add Tesla to its index last month, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Michael Dean said it could be due to “question marks about the sustainability of regulatory emission-credit sales, which are currently underpinning earnings.”(Updates with details on third quarter earnings from third paragraph. An earlier version of this story was corrrected to show company plans to meet its annual deliveries target.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.,

Tesla Beats on Profit, Reaffirms Goal of 500,000 Deliveries(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. reported a fifth consecutive quarter of profits Wednesday, handily beating analysts’ estimates, and said it remains on track to deliver 500,000 cars in 2020 despite weaker sales in the rest of the global auto industry.The earnings streak could add momentum for Tesla’s inclusion in the S&P 500 Index and defies a downbeat trend among other automakers struggling to overcome a pandemic-induced slump. The Palo Alto, California-based company reported third-quarter profit of 76 cents a share on an adjusted basis, surpassing analysts’ consensus estimate for 55 cents a share.Shares of the company rose as much as 4.5% in aftermarket trading Wednesday after closing at $422.64. The stock is up 405% so far this year.Tesla’s gross margins inched up more than 250 basis points in the quarter to 23.5%, while operating margins grew to 9.2% — even after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk received $290 million for hitting compensation targets.“What jumped out to me is gross margins,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures. “That’s the machine that keeps the machine growing. They are making more money from each car.”Fourth Quarter FocusTesla said it would meet its goal of delivering half a million cars worldwide this year, a target it wavered on after last quarter’s earnings and CEO Musk last month hinted might not come to pass. The company needs to deliver more than 181,000 cars in the last three months of the year to hit that mark, which would be a 30% jump over the previous quarter.“While achieving this goal has become more difficult, delivering half a million vehicles in 2020 remains our target,” the company said in a statement. This will largely depend on increased production at its Shanghai factory and higher output of its Model Y, it said.In January, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Tesla predicted it would “comfortably exceed” deliveries of 500,000 vehicles for the full year, a 36% increase from 2019. Still, the company’s likely double-digit growth stands out in a year when global auto industry deliveries are projected to be 14% below pre-Covid estimates and down 22% from last year, according to LMC Automotive.In addition to its mainstay Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover, the company also manufactures the older and higher-priced Model X SUV and Model S sports sedan. Its flagship factory in Fremont, California, now has capacity to make 590,000 vehicles a year: 500,000 3 and Y and 90,000 of the S and X.Tesla said Wednesday deliveries of its Semi will start next year, four years after the big rig was first revealed.Credit Sales DownTesla’s revenue rose to a better-than-expected $8.8 billion, even as sales of regulatory credits to other automakers fell to $397 million. That was down from $428 million in the second quarter.“Regulatory credits are a big part of the EPS beat,” said analyst Ben Kallo of Robert W. Baird. “But that’s part of the game: Tesla’s competitors are paying them, and Tesla is reinvesting that into their factories in Berlin and Texas.”The electric-car maker earns money by selling credits to manufacturers that need them to comply with carbon-emissions standards in California, Europe and elsewhere. Investors view this revenue as a double-edged sword because they want to know Tesla can be profitable from its core business: making and selling cars.When S&P failed to add Tesla to its index last month, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Michael Dean said it could be due to “question marks about the sustainability of regulatory emission-credit sales, which are currently underpinning earnings.”(Updates with details on third quarter earnings from third paragraph. An earlier version of this story was corrrected to show company plans to meet its annual deliveries target.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

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