Tesla
TSLAMarket price data through August 3, 2026.
Performance
Aug 2021 – Aug 2026
Track record
How this pick has done since Benson first called it.
- Benson Return
- +49%
- How much this stock is up since Benson first picked it — measured from the price at the time of that first pick, not from today.
- First pick price
- ~$216
- Roughly what one share cost when Benson first picked this stock. This is the starting line for the Benson Return.
- Tracking since
- September 2024
- The month this stock first became a Benson pick.
- Tracking duration
- 22 months
- How long Benson has been tracking this pick.
About Tesla
Tesla makes electric cars, but the bigger story is what comes next: self-driving software, robotaxis, a humanoid robot called Optimus, and giant battery packs that store power for homes and the electric grid. Think of Tesla as a car company today and an AI and robotics company tomorrow. Its latest quarter showed the car business still moving serious metal while the energy side quietly grows.
The case for and against
Both sides of the story, in plain English.
- Volume Machine
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026 and built 451,758. That is a lot of cars leaving lots at a time when plenty of carmakers are stuck with inventory they cannot move. Building fewer than it sold also means Tesla worked down its existing stock rather than piling up more.
- Battery Boom
Tesla deployed 13.5 gigawatt hours of energy storage in the quarter. These are giant battery packs that store electricity for homes, businesses, and the power grid, and it has become one of Tesla's fastest growing businesses. As data centers and AI eat more electricity, that demand is not slowing down.
- Model Concentration
Almost everything Tesla sells is two cars. The Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 467,762 of the 480,126 deliveries, leaving just 12,364 for every other model combined. If shoppers cool on those two, there is not much else in the lineup to catch them.
- Thin Profits
Annual revenue slipped about 3% and net profit margins sit near 4%, meaning Tesla keeps only about four dollars of every hundred it brings in. The company is worth roughly 1.4 trillion dollars, so a huge amount of that price rides on self-driving and robots working out, not on the cars alone.
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How to read this page
This automated research summary uses Financial Modeling Prep market data through 2026-08-03. Model signals, scores, and risk labels can change and may be incomplete or wrong.
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