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Tesla

What Tesla is up to now

House Musk's second realm — enters the board through robotics/autonomy AI (FSD, Optimus, Dojo) rather than a frontier LLM, and rides inside the SpaceX/Musk megacap financially. Thinly covered so far; the AI-relevant thread is the autonomy stack.

as of 2026-07-24

Held by Elon Musk
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House Musk's second realm — enters the board via robotics/autonomy AI, not a frontier LLM line.

The metrics — click any for its citations + threads

Posture high
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Capital · available high
~$43.5B cash + ST investments (TTM Jun-2026), lightly levered — total debt only ~$9.3B. Materially more liquidity-cushioned than SpaceX's ~$16B, and no IPO-style capital event pending. 1 src →
Capital · operating high
~$18.7B/yr operating cash flow (TTM) — healthy, growing (+18.5% YoY per stockanalysis) despite the capex-driven investor anxiety. 1 src →
Capital · deployed high
~$12.9B/yr capex TTM (up from $8.5B FY2025) — the FSD/robotaxi/Optimus/Energy buildout; this is the line the market is punishing the stock for. 1 src →
Capital · in high
inflows: revenue $103.6B TTM + OCF $18.7B; no material external capital raise this TTM (unlike SpaceX/Intel, no state or IPO injection) — self-funded off operations. 1 src →
Capital · out high
outflows: capex $12.9B/yr + ~$6.9B/yr net securities purchases (portfolio churn, not strategic stakes) + stock-comp dilution; FCF TTM only ~$5.8B — thin relative to the capex ramp, and … 1 src →
Optionality med
mixed — materially weaker band than spacex. Musk holds ~13% Tesla equity (per Wikipedia infobox) with NO supervoting share class, so he lacks SpaceX-style structural lock; the board has been … 4 src →
Gravity high
GROSS outer bound = total revenue $103.6B/yr TTM (auto $72.6B + energy $12.8B + services $15.2B + credits $1.5B + leasing $1.6B). The FSD/robotaxi/energy-DEPENDENT slice specifically is LOW … 3 src →

Holdings

FsdOptimusDojo

Projects & threads

· Musk Megacap financing ↳ Lab IPO Wave — open · last seen 2026-07-28 · 10 entries

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