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Elon Musk 'Almost In Tears,' 'Like A Little Baby' On 'Disaster' Earnings Call
Elon Musk 'Almost In Tears,' 'Like A Little Baby' On 'Disaster' Earnings Call-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:14

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Tesla held its third-quarter earnings call last Wednesday, where management met with investors to talk through the past few months and reevaluate for the road ahead. In that call, CEO Elon Musk laid down : Sales are down, earnings are down, and costs have risen.

This isn’t unusual, all companies hit rough spots from time to time. Meetings like this often involve a CEO placating investors, telling them all the plans for the future, ways the company will bounce back. Musk, it seems, took a different approach: Nearly coming to tears live on the call.

Dan Ives, a Wall Street analyst, called the earnings call a “” with regard to Tesla’s profit margins and inconsistent pricing. Rather than address those concerns, Musk apparently focused on the Cybertruck and federal interest rates. Another analyst, Kevin Paffrath, gave even harsher words to :

Oh, my gosh, this was terrible. I feel bad for him. Look, he’s got a lot of things going on, legal battles, custody battles for his kids now, but it doesn’t justify acting like Trump on Twitter stonewalling the SEC or the European Union, and quite frankly turning into a little baby on the earnings call.

I mean, he was almost in tears. It showed a complete lack of leadership. Tesla’s a leadership-less company right now and it’s terrible. That’s why their CFO just left, I believe, as well.

Sounds like things are going great over at Tesla. Investors have long worried that would , and it seems their fears may be coming true — rather than planning paths to prosperity for Tesla, Musk seems content to whine on Twitter. And, apparently, on live calls with investors.

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