INVESTING IN TESLA STOCK 📈 Is Tesla Stock A Buy In 2017

Is Tesla stock a buy? Should you invest in Tesla stock in 2017. Tesla stock is popular among many investors, but before you invest your hard earned money in Tesla stock there are a few things you should consider. In this video, I will discuss the pros in support of investing in Tesla stock as well as the cons that might lead you to avoid Tesla stock. Is Tesla Stock a Buy | Pros of Tesla Stock 1. Tesla is innovative. Tesla has developed cutting edge battery technology, electric powertrains and vehicle software technology. Tesla also has a unique business model that involves online purchasing of vehicles as well as company owned showrooms. The business model for the sale of Tesla vehicles puts customer service and quality control at the front. 2. Tesla is part of a major trend shift. Tesla is currently caught up in what is really two major trend shifts. The first is the development of a practical electric vehicle for the everyday person. The second is the development of driverless cars. Mobileye, a vision based sensor company, believes that the autonomous driving market could hit $15 Billion within a few years. Tesla has been invested in emerging auto technologies since 2003 and the Tesla autopilot hardware has logged over 1.3 billion miles. Tesla currently has the advantage of data (1.3 billion miles driven) but the disadvantage of competing with google in this trend shift. 3. Tesla has the “Musk” factor. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has a track record of success. He helped launch Zip2, PayPal, Solar City and SpaceX. Elon Musk has made investors billions of dollars in the past and many people are invested in Tesla solely for that reason. Is Tesla Stock a Buy | Cons of Tesla Stock 1. The Solar City deal sucks for Tesla. Tesla acquired Solar City back in November 2016 in a deal that was worth about $2 Billion. Solar City is, unfortunately, a huge money loser. In 2016, Solar City reported close to $2 Billion in negative operating cash flow. Due to the nature of the business, Solar City is expensive to run between marketing and capital costs. Solar is also an extremely competitive market, and the outlook under the Trump administration for alternative energy is dismal. On top of this, Morgan Stanley reported that they see no additional value for shareholders from the deal with Solar City. 2. Tesla stock is extremely expensive. Tesla stock currently trades at close to $300 a share. Tesla is not a profitable company. Right now, the value in Tesla is all intellectual property. Is that worth the sky high valuation? That is up to the investor to decide. Short interest on Tesla stock is 31,068,721 shares, or 23.2% and while that isn’t sky high the short interest on Tesla is worth mentioning. The current price to sales valuation of Tesla is a multiple of 5.7, where the industry average is 0.5. Tesla stock is at a premium. MY OPINION ON TESLA STOCK: Due to the valuation of the stock, the Solar City acquisition, competing with Google in this trend shift and the potential snags with scaling their unique business model I will not be investing in Tesla stock. I see it as a speculative investment right now based on the intellectual property of Tesla. Website http://www.ryanoscribner.com Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/RyanOScribner Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ryanoscribner/ Personal Fitness Coaching http://www.ryanoscribner.com/shop Related Videos: Is Tesla Stock a buy? | Tesla Stock! | Tesla! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetqsW6HZGo Buy or Sell Tesla Stock? | Stock Analysis: Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHdmnbmigCQ Related Articles: Tesla Stock Nears $300: What Investors Need to Know https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/03/tesla-stock-nears-300-what-investors-need-to-know.aspx Should I Buy Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) Stock? 3 Pros, 3 Cons http://investorplace.com/2016/12/should-i-buy-tesla-motors-inc-tsla-stock-3-pros-3-cons/#.WOYxEvkrLRY The Simple Reason I Won't Buy Tesla Motors Stock https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/04/the-simple-reason-i-wont-buy-tesla-motors-stock.aspx Tesla Stock Quote https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?p=TSLA If this video brought value to you, please leave a like! If you are looking to find out more about anything I discussed, drop me a comment or contact me on Twitter. Subscribe to be updated on my journey through life!

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1. With Tesla it's really hard to call what's gonna happen. Are we late to the party or we should jump in expecting the share prices going to 500+$?
   
   I think that there's a lot of hype about this stock which makes it scary. You can see the hype when Tesla issues new shares and the price just goes up, instead of falling down like "a falling knife" as it would happen in most stocks. The new issued shares just keep getting bought by Tesla fans and people profiting from the hype.
   
   If for any reason this hype ends, the results could be bad for longs.
   
   
   On the other hand, there's something we might be missing. Tesla is not just a car company. It's an energy company. I bet in 50 years the normal thing will be to have solar roofs and batteries that can power our homes. Tesla is changing the paradigm of our lifes and this means they are going to make a shit load of money.
   At the same time, they started too soon (somebody had to start it, or the change to clean energy would never happen) and when demand for self production and storage of energy increases, other big energy companies will just jump in and compete to death with tesla.
   
   I see the same happening with cars. Tesla made the first electric cars that were powerful, had great range, were beautiful and cool in general. Now every car maker has seen there's demand for this kind of cars and wants to have a cool electric car in the market just like tesla did. Thankfully for Tesla, they are ahead and the more affordable Model 3 will hit the market soon. That segment has less competition for electric cars and could make the company finally profitable.
   
   We should not forget that the company is into Artificial Intelligence, which is definitely where the future is going.
   
   
   CONCLUSION: I think Tesla stocks will keep going up as long as Elon Musk can keep the company going forward and innovating. If he steps out and let's others manage the company, a lot of uncertainty will come to a stock that might have just been overhyped.
2. Tesla is the one of the most overvalued company on the market. GM's profit is greater than Tesla's revenue. Plus they are going to loose $1billion this year. Tesla is such a bad investment.
3. Share is all about future. I see Tesla as a most successful company in 10 years along with Space X. The speed of their growth is incredible. Their management is not afraid to take risks to come up with innovative products. That is the most valuable asset. While incumbents are dragged down by risk-averse corporate management, Tesla will changed the world for better and dominate the market.
4. where cost is concerned...now you can buy fractional shares of TSLA..as low as 10.00 when you use the LOYAL3 trading platform
5. For me they have little chance to turning profit. Horrible investments were made (GigaFactory), their new car for averege Joe will have thin profit margins and with this kind of profits you cannot sustain the value bubble . The minute this bubble burst and they become under-valued google will be first in line to buy all shares.
   It would be very good move for google not only cheap company but reputable brand and tons of data for AI. With Tesla Google could epand succesfully into automotive market incresing their influence in todays world.
   If you belive that they cannot sustain that bubble for long buy alphabet now ;)
6. i agree with you on Tesla stock! their balance sheet is suck!! isnt a profit company, but i still wanna own it, the only reason is their goal and vision i like what they're doing. if Tesla doesn't success on electric car i don't think any other company will.
7. I agree 100 percent but I heard a rumor that they might merge with GM. If that goes through i'll give it a second look but for right now that's a no.
8. People were saying exactly the same thing about Facebook, that it didn't make any money and it would be hard for them to make a profit. Since the IPO the stock has gone up 3 times! The same thing will happen to Tesla, they could easily be making and selling a million cars in 5 years on three continents. They are streets ahead of the competition, and other car companies are too committed to ICE and are very complacent. Plus they have a battery business and other technologies to fall back on.
9. Analysis Paralysis - I bought in early ($90) a share knowing that Tesla was the pioneer in electric car development, and leaving behind the likes of GM, BMW, Mercedes, etc... Even back then I thought $90 was a lot, but without thinking, I went for it. Don't think, else you'll be left behind. Same here, too much analysis, too many ducks in a row. Doesn't work that way. If you're smart to figure it out earlier enough you'll know as I do, that Tesla will go to $600 with no sweat! Forget the naysayers like JP Morgan - they got left in the dust recently when they said to downgrade the stock with a recommendation to sell. (Worthless!)
10. You make sense & you right about this stock it is hard to inverse in it
11. hello what do you think of plug power inc didn't amazon just agree to buy 23 percent of plug and buy 600 million of product
12. Channel exploding man! Very happy for you Ryan, congrats man!
13. I love your objective analisys. Can you check out Micron? They and Intel 3d stacking memory technology that may revolutionaise the whole computer industry. In terms of both storage and RAM.
14. I like your subscribers, they put forth rational arguments for or against tesla (in this instance) and don't curse like sailors when they have a differing opinion. Refreshing.
15. Great video thanks, and it's also great to read all of the other commenters opinions which is strange on Youtube...
16. Im curious about Tesla's intellectual property being a Pro, I was under the impression that Elon Musk made all Tesla patents available to other companies.
    
    Also, shockingly BlackBerry may be the underdog in autonomous driving. They have great partnerships with companies like Mercedes Benz and Ford. Also, they're involved in the IoT market where they're trying to connect they're self driving cars to other road infrastructure such as traffic lights, so they may be someone to keep an eye on. (fact: Apple Car play runs on top of BlackBerry owned software)
17. I'm still a short. I don't think tesla is worth anywhere near 300 a share
18. Hey again! Any thought on FORD? F stock?
19. I don't normally speculate on markets, but since this is the second time it has come up, I might as well share my opinion on it:
    
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5gzjwuhjnx75b1/tsla.png
    
    This is a picture of the platform I use, and I only use 3 analysis tools.....the bottom tells me implied volatility (40% is awesome for options selling), the center line gives me the 30-day moving average, and the other 2 are a function I designed to give me a rough estimate of where the stock should be between 30 days from now (though I can increase the length of time if I want). You can notice that the stock stays pretty close to or within those boundaries (as I said, I don't speculate, I only use this to determine my strike prices for options so that I stay OTM).
    
    So If I'm right, stock will be between 268 and 355 in 30 days, which gives you 11% down and 19% up.....however....."Musk hype" has been entirely speculative on so-called "innovative" designs for the future, and not one of any of his designs were innovative nor do they have practical purpose in comparison to other technology already available. He is a rich man who likes tinker with hand-me-down devices.
    
    SpaceX was supposed to be about reusing rocketry parts in order to make space travel affordable, none of those rockets were ever re-used, the engines were inefficient by more than 50% of that of current rocketry of NASA, and the "sending humans to Mars" that got everyone excited over it turned out to be a cash-grab scheme.
    
    Hyperloop technology was first invented in 1869.....yes....148 years ago, that was not a typo. It was created as a novelty innovation and lasted for 3 years, but had no practical sense in long term application (look it up, 'Beach Pneumatic Transit'). Placing a tube under vacuum would be disastrous, plus it takes hours to depressurize the "test track" that was built.....the flaws are endless and expensive.....all that material already purchased by the company is going to be wasted.
    
    Tesla in-home batteries are expensive and harness less energy than just buying a bunch of car batteries and a ACDC converter at the same cost.....this has been done by off-gridders for decades, and the only place in the country that it would be anywhere near needed would be California, where they still charge higher for peak energy consumption. The amount you save by storing energy at night and using it during the day will take you 50 years+ to get your money back....and that's if the unit can even last past 10 years since the cells are not made for that type of energy transfer.
    
    The ONLY thing currently going for Tesla are their electric cars, and even then, they have competition with less expensive car companies, like the Nissan Leaf at half the cost. The company doesn't give dividends and their earnings are in the gutter. I give this companies valuation at no more than $210 a share, but I suspect the books are cooked and they are moving their losses around to hide them, so I'd go much lower to that of $130......this puts their stock price in a 129% speculation bubble.
    
    Just like the real estate market, the bubble can keep increasing and price could keep going up.....or it could pop, but unless the company creates something that is actually innovative and without fault, then that bubble is eventually going to pop, no doubt.
20. TSLA just had an epic short squeeze this past Monday after Elons tweet haha.