Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)

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Tesla, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Tesla, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $7.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $95 billion in fiscal 2025, up 33.6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Tesla, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 66 sales (60 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Tesla, Inc. earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 12 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 40 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Tesla, Inc.'s standing among 27 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $95 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 14% by size; a net margin of 4% ranks in the top 24%; revenue growth of 5.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

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Tesla, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Musk, Elon (CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2011-02-23, 15.7 years (top 6% of its family); the 6 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.6 years (top 5%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 6 people in charge now (bottom 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Tesla, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $17 billion against debt of $6.6 billion leaves 7.2% of its assets as net cash, top 50% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.6% of revenue (top 29%); a gross margin of 18% (top 40%); research spending of 6.8% of revenue (bottom 44%) (its annual report).

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Tesla, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.2% a year over the last three filed years against 33.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 14% of its family); the newest year grew -2.9% (bottom 39%); research spending grew 27.7% a year (top 6%); capital spending grew 6% a year (top 37%) (its annual reports). Tesla, Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Automotive Sales at $66 billion (69%), Services and Other at $13 billion (13%), Energy Generation and Storage Sales at $12 billion (13%), and 3 more; 2 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Tesla, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $95 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 11.4% below the $107 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 38% of its family); net income of $3.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $12 billion (bottom 29%); a net margin of 4% against 12.7% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).