Tesla already reported automobile cargo numbers for the second quarter, and now its full Q2 2022 monetary report (pdf) reveals it’s coping with inflation and the general financial downturn, mixed with a plunge in costs of Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies. Within the letter to traders, Tesla execs reveal the corporate has bought 75 % of its Bitcoin holdings, including $936 million in money to its steadiness sheet.
Final yr, Tesla made a $1.5 billion funding in Bitcoin and introduced that it will settle for Bitcoin as cost. Tesla began accepting Bitcoin in late March, then abruptly reversed itself in Could, simply 49 days later.
Within the newest report, Tesla says the worth of its remaining “digital property” is $218 million, which it had reported at round $1.2 billion in earlier quarters. Final July, Musk mentioned, “I’d pump, however I don’t dump … I positively don’t consider in getting the value excessive and promoting or something like that. I want to see Bitcoin succeed.”
In terms of its enterprise of creating electrical automobiles — the place new opponents appear to be introduced day by day — and photo voltaic merchandise, the corporate is reporting that it made $2.26 billion in revenue this quarter, round a 31 % lower from final quarter when it posted earnings of $3.3 billion. The revenue was earned on $16.9 billion in income, which can be down from Q1, the place the corporate reported bringing in $18.7 billion.
When it comes to profitability, the corporate remains to be doing higher than it did in Q2 2021, the place it made $1.1 billion on $11.9 billion in income. The corporate attributes that to a number of components, together with “decrease stock-based compensation expense,” extra automobile deliveries in comparison with final yr, and an improved common promoting worth. That is the primary full quarter since Tesla raised the costs on all of its automobiles by as a lot as 10 %, and it raised costs once more on choose fashions in June. Regardless of the value will increase, the corporate has damaged with its development of incomes extra per automotive every quarter. In Q1, its gross automotive margin was 32.9 %. This quarter, it was 27.9 %.
Tesla introduced earlier this month that its deliveries have slowed down, dropping by round 18 % in comparison with Q1. It additionally produced round 15 % fewer automobiles this quarter in comparison with final. In its earnings report, Tesla says it confronted “restricted manufacturing and shutdowns in Shanghai for almost all of the quarter” however that it continued to ramp up manufacturing at its new amenities in Berlin and Austin, Texas.
Different difficulties the automaker stories are elevated costs in all the pieces from uncooked supplies to logistics, larger fastened prices per automotive as a result of closures in Shanghai, and, after all, the aforementioned “Bitcoin impairment.”
In comparison with final quarter, the corporate’s income from promoting regulatory credit to different automakers dropped by virtually 50 %. In Q1, it introduced in $679 million from the credit, and in Q2, it made solely $344 million. The credit assist different corporations that don’t make sufficient “clear” autos to fulfill regulatory requirements within the US and EU.
Culturally, it’s been a turbulent quarter at Tesla. In late April, CEO Elon Musk bought billions of {dollars} price of inventory within the firm to assist pay for Twitter (a deal that has been an enormous mess and is now headed to Delaware’s Courtroom of Chancery after Elon tried to cancel the association). Musk additionally reportedly mentioned he has a “tremendous dangerous feeling” in regards to the economic system when asserting the hiring freezes and layoffs on the firm. These layoffs have affected the autopilot workforce, and Tesla has been accused of violating labor legislation after allegedly letting over 500 Gigafactory staff go. The corporate additionally misplaced its head of AI earlier this month.
It hasn’t all been dangerous information, although. Tesla’s partnership with Uber and Hertz, the place certified rideshare drivers can lease the EVs to ferry passengers round in, appears to be going nicely based mostly on a report from Uber in June. It additionally looks as if 2022 would be the yr non-Tesla EVs will get entry to the Supercharger community within the US, based mostly on a reality sheet launched by the White Home.
The corporate shall be discussing its Q2 outcomes on an investor name at 5:30PM ET / 2:30PM PT, which you’ll take heed to right here.