DETROIT — Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a yr ago as the corporate’s global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.
The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, lower than the $2.7 billion it made in the identical period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline.
Second quarter revenue rose 2% to $25.5 billion, beating Wall Street estimates of $24.54 billion, in line with FactSet. Excluding one time items, Tesla made 52 cents per share, below analyst expectations of 61 cents.
Earlier this month Tesla said it sold 443,956 vehicles from April through June, down 4.8% from 466,140 sold the identical period a yr ago. Although the sales were were higher than the 436,000 that analysts had expected, they still were an indication of weakening demand for the corporate’s aging product lineup.
For the primary half of the yr, Tesla has sold about 831,000 vehicles worldwide, far wanting the greater than 1.8 million for the total yr that CEO Elon Musk has predicted.
The corporate’s widely watched gross profit margin, the share of revenue it gets to maintain after expenses, fell once more to 18%. A yr ago it was 18.2%, and it peaked at 29.1% in the primary quarter of 2022.
Tesla said it posted record quarterly revenue “despite a difficult operating environment.” The corporate’s energy-storage business took in only over $3 billion in revenue, double the quantity in the identical period last yr.
Shares of Tesla fell 4% in trading after Tuesday’s closing bell. The shares had been down greater than 40% earlier within the yr, but have since recovered many of the losses.
Revenue from regulatory credits purchased by other automakers who can’t meet government emissions targets hit $890 million for the quarter, double Tesla’s amount of most previous quarters.
The corporate reported $622 million in “restructuring and other” expenses for the quarter, when it laid off over 10% of its workforce.
Tesla said in a note to investors that it’s between two major growth waves, with the following one coming through advances in autonomous vehicles and recent models. But the corporate reiterated caution that its sales growth “could also be notably lower than the expansion rate achieved in 2023.”
The corporate said plans for brand new vehicles, including cheaper models, are on the right track for production to start out in the primary half of next yr. Tesla has hinted at a smaller model costing around $25,000. The models are to be built using some points of current vehicles and others from the next-generation underpinnings.
The corporate said average selling prices for its Models S, X, 3 and Y all dropped as a result of the value cuts and financing offers. It also said that the Cybertruck became the most effective selling electric pickup within the U.S. in the course of the quarter.
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