Tesla reports earnings after the bell Wednesday

Electric conveyance shaper Tesla plans to study fourth-quarter results aft marketplace adjacent connected Wednesday.

Here's what analysts were expecting arsenic of Wednesday morning, according to Refinitiv:

• Earnings (adjusted): $1.13 per share
• Revenue: $24.16 billion

In the year-ago quarter, Tesla reported gross of $17.72 cardinal and adjusted net of $2.52 per share.

Earlier this month, Tesla reported vehicle transportation and production numbers for the 4th fourth of 2022 that acceptable a caller grounds for the company, but fell shy of the company's goals and analysts' expectations, contempt having chopped prices connected its cars successful December to spur customers to instrumentality deliveries earlier the year's end.

Tesla reported 405,278 conveyance deliveries and accumulation of 439,701 vehicles successful the play ending December 31, 2022. Full twelvemonth deliveries amounted to astir 1.31 million, a grounds for Tesla, aft the institution started accumulation astatine its caller factories successful Austin, Texas, and Brandenburg, Germany.

Last year, Musk said the factories were akin to "money-burning furnaces" successful an interrogation with an owners' nine posted to YouTube successful June.

So acold successful 2023, Tesla has continued to chopped prices connected its cars astir the world, upsetting customers successful the US and China who precocious bought caller Teslas astatine higher prices, and triggering an instant diminution successful utilized Tesla prices successful the US arsenic well.

Tesla solicits questions up of their net calls via a tract called Say.com from some retail and organization investors.

Among different things, investors connected that tract accidental they privation to cognize what the caller terms cuts volition bash to Tesla's automotive gross margins, however overmuch the institution expects to turn income of its cars successful 2023, and erstwhile Tesla plans to commencement wide accumulation and deliveries of its long-delayed, sci-fi inspired, pickup motortruck the Cybertruck.

Throughout the 4th fourth of 2022, shareholders besides sought answers from Tesla and Elon Musk astir his intentions astatine the automaker arsenic the terms of Tesla shares declined. Tesla's stock terms has dropped much than 40% implicit the past six months. 

Musk is presently splitting his time, attraction and resources betwixt Tesla, SpaceX, the defence contractor wherever helium is CEO, and Twitter, the societal media concern helium precocious acquired.

The personage CEO sold billions of dollars worthy of his Tesla holdings past year, including $3.6 cardinal successful the 4th quarter, successful portion to concern the Twitter deal, which closed successful precocious October 2022. He instantly appointed himself "Chief Twit," and CEO there.

Since taking implicit Twitter, helium has made sweeping changes to the concern and the service, including allowing radical who had been permanently suspended from the level to travel backmost online.

Musk's moves astatine Twitter, and his governmental statements connected the societal media platform, person correlated with a crisp diminution successful Musk's and Tesla's reputation, particularly among liberal- to precise liberal-leaning radical successful the US, according to probe by YouGov shared with CNBC.

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