🤔 Thought exercise: Why does the market say Tesla ($1.1 trillion) is worth 20x Ford Motors ($55 billion)? I came up with a list of reasons and used AI to ask what some things are worth...
🔵 Ford doesn't own any of it's dealerships, Tesla owns all of it's dealerships. It would cost $70 billion to buy every Ford dealership in the US.
🔵 Ford doesn't own gas stations, Tesla owns its own fueling network. It would cost $50 billion to buy every Shell gas station in the US.
🔵 Ford spends about $3 billion per year on advertising. Tesla spends about $0.
🔵 Ford has 169,000 employees, many of whom are unionized (10% higher cost) and pensioned ($600 million annual expense). Tesla has 132,000 employees who aren't.
🔵 Ford has a profit margin of -4%. Tesla has a profit margin of +4%.
🔵 Ford depends heavily on suppliers. Tesla builds its own critical components.
🔵 Tesla Solar is a power utility for hundreds of thousands of homes.
🔵 Tesla Self Driving is best in class and could be licensed.
🔵 Uber has a market cap of $169 billion. Tesla CyberCabs could take half that market.
🔵 Tesla is preparing to build hundreds of millions of humanoid robots.
🔵 Tesla will likely merge with SpaceX at a premium.