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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by paulpauper on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:16PM (#16702520)
The losses are due to the capital outlays for factories, bot because the car business is unprofitable. Tesla has 20% margins on their sales, which is twice that of GM and Ford.
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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by jonknee on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:13PM (#16702938)
GM and Ford happen to make (lots of) money even after they pay for the cost of building/selling/supporting their products. That said, Tesla's gross margin in the latest quarter was 13.34%[1], GM's was 13.29%[2] and Ford led the pack at 15.34%[3].

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/gross_profit_margin

[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/GM/gross_profit_margin

[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/F/gross_profit_margin

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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by AstralStorm on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:40AM (#16705937)
The real question is, would Teslas still sell well enough at a higher margin...
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