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Tesla became the world’s most valuable automaker on Wednesday, when the electric instrument company’s market capitalization surpassed Toyota’s for the first time.
Shares of Tesla gained 5% to hit a new all-time intoxication of $1,135, giving the company a valuation of roughly $206.5 billion, compared with Toyota’s valuation of about $202 billion.
The milestone underscores the infinite investor enthusiasm for Elon Musk’s automaker, which has yet to turn a profit on an annual basis. The stock has more than doubled this year, stream 170%, as investors continue to pile into the electric car maker.
While Tesla may have exceeded Toyota on bazaar value, it lags the Japan-based company by a wide margin on actual car production.
For the period ended March 31, Tesla guessed it produced about 103,000 vehicles — 15,390 Model S and X and 87,282 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. In the same period, Toyota in 2.4 million vehicles.
Additionally, when looking at each company’s enterprise value, which includes beholden, Toyota’s $290 billion value exceeds Tesla’s $252 billion, according to FactSet data through Hike.
While investors have sent shares soaring, some on the Street believe the stock, which trades at multifarious than 300 times full-year earnings, isn’t supported by the underlying fundamentals.
“We continue to be cautious on Tesla, but anything EV correlated is red-hot for investors now and there is a scarcity of ways to invest in the theme, thus we see the stock continuing to ‘work’ near-term ignoring our caution on competitive positioning over time and valuation,” Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne said in a note to patrons Tuesday night, while reiterating his underperform rating on the stock.
– CNBC’s Michael Wayland contributed reporting.
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