Elon Musk has been attempting this week to defend Tesla’s abysmal inventory efficiency in 2022. The electrical car big has seen its inventory plummet by 61% this yr, making it the Eleventh-worst performing inventory within the S&P 500 in 2022.
“As bank savings account interest rates, which are guaranteed, start to approach stock market returns, which are *not* guaranteed, people will increasingly move their money out of stocks into cash, thus causing stocks to drop,” Musk tweeted.
You may anticipate that Tesla’s inventory drop has worn out extra investor wealth than some other inventory on the planet this yr. But you’d be fallacious.
If we take a look at declines in market capitalization — the worth of corporations’ common-shares excellent — Tesla
TSLA,
-1.76%
has been the fourth worst-performing inventory within the benchmark S&P 500 this yr, as of 1 p.m. ET on Dec. 21:
Company
Ticker
2022 market cap change ($bil)
Intraday market cap on Dec. 21 ($bil)
Dec. 31, 2021 market cap ($bil)
2022 worth change
Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
+1.74%
-$805
$886
$1,691
-48%
Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.28%
-$753
$2,160
$2,913
-24%
Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.23%
-$700
$1,825
$2,525
-27%
Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-1.76%
-$622
$439
$1,061
-61%
Meta Platforms Inc. Class A
META,
+0.79%
-$466
$318
$784
-64%
Nvidia Corp.
NVDA,
-0.87%
-$329
$406
$735
-44%
PayPal Holdings Inc.
PYPL,
+0.67%
-$143
$79
$222
-63%
Netflix Inc.
NFLX,
-0.94%
-$134
$133
$267
-51%
Walt Disney Co.
DIS,
+1.55%
-$122
$160
$282
-44%
Salesforce Inc.
CRM,
+0.19%
-$119
$131
$250
-49%
Source: FactSet
On a share foundation, all these shares have carried out worse than the total S&P 500, which has fallen 19%, excluding dividends.
Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
+1.74%
has erased extra shareholder wealth than some other publicly traded firm in 2022. In complete, traders in Amazon have misplaced $804.6 billion this yr. The inventory is down 48% in 2022.
Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.28%
and Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.23%
have additionally suffered bigger market-cap declines than Tesla, by advantage of their sheer measurement.
The corporations have totally different fiscal and annual interval ends, but when we take a look at information for the previous three reported quarters and examine to the identical interval a yr earlier, right here’s how the 4 stack up:
Company
Ticker
Change in gross sales for 3 quarters from year-earlier interval
Change in EPS for 3 quarters from year-earlier interval
Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
+1.74%
10%
N/A
Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.28%
6%
2%
Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.23%
14%
-2%
Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-1.76%
58%
169%
Source: FactSet
Amazon confirmed a web lack of $3 billion for the primary three quarters of 2022 as the corporate neared the tip of its extraordinary multiyear effort to construct out its warehouse and success infrastructure. For the primary three quarters of 2021, the corporate booked $19 billion in income. When asserting Amazon’s third-quarter outcomes CEO Andy Jassy stated the corporate was working methodically towards “a stronger cost structure for the business moving forward.”
The unbelievable progress of Amazon’s cloud enterprise has stalled and disillusioned the expectations the corporate had nurtured on Wall Street. The Amazon Web Services enterprise is dealing with rising competitors from the likes of Microsoft and its clients are pulling again. Meanwhile, retail gross sales have additionally are available weak going into the Christmas and vacation season.
Amazon’s inventory has declined 22% because it closed at $110.96 on Oct. 27, proper earlier than it disillusioned traders not solely with its third-quarter outcomes, however with its outlook: It expects to interrupt even through the vacation quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had beforehand anticipated a revenue of greater than $5 billion.
Tesla stands in distinction to Amazon, as you may see on the desk above. Its gross sales grew by 58% through the first three quarters of 2022 from the year-earlier interval and its earnings per share rose practically threefold.
This has been a yr of serious declines for shares of big tech-oriented corporations, particularly those who had traded at lofty price-to-earnings valuations — that group consists of Amazon and Tesla. In truth, these corporations have given up all their pandemic period good points int he inventory market.
But with Tesla’s outcomes so excellent via the primary three quarters of 2022, it raises the query: How a lot of the drop within the electrical automotive makers share worth was tied to Musk’s actions as CEO of Twitter, which he acquired on Oct. 27 after a monthslong saga? And how a lot of a reduction rally, if any, may there be for Tesla if Musk, as anticipated, steps down as Twitter CEO?
How about some bottom-feeding?
Here’s the identical record of 10 shares within the S&P 500 which have seen the biggest declines in market cap this yr, with a abstract of analysts’ scores, consensus worth targets and declines of their ahead price-to-earnings ratios:
Company
Ticker
Share “buy” scores
Dec. 21 closing worth
Cons. worth goal
Implied 12-month upside potential
Forward P/E as of Dec. 20
Forward P/E as of Dec. 31, 2021
Amazon.com Inc.
AMZN,
+1.74%
91%
$85.19
$134.85
58%
49.3
64.9
Apple Inc.
AAPL,
-0.28%
74%
$132.30
$173.44
31%
21.4
30.2
Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
+0.23%
91%
$241.80
$293.06
21%
23.7
34.0
Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-1.76%
63%
$137.80
$272.64
98%
24.6
120.3
Meta Platforms Inc. Class A
META,
+0.79%
63%
$117.09
$145.45
24%
14.5
23.5
Nvidia Corp.
NVDA,
-0.87%
68%
$160.85
$195.72
22%
39.2
58.0
PayPal Holdings Inc.
PYPL,
+0.67%
71%
$68.76
$104.32
52%
14.5
36.0
Netflix Inc.
NFLX,
-0.94%
47%
$288.19
$302.89
5%
28.4
45.6
Walt Disney Co.
DIS,
+1.55%
82%
$87.02
$119.60
37%
19.8
34.2
Salesforce Inc.
CRM,
+0.19%
78%
$128.45
$195.18
52%
23.4
53.5
Source: FactSet
A majority of analysts see a golden path forward for 2023 for all of those shares apart from Netflix.
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