00:00Tesla just held its Q4 2025 earnings call, and this one changed the framework
00:05Tesla will soon be a transportation-as-a-service company
00:08Tesla quietly told investors it's done optimizing for the past
00:11Model S and X are ending
00:13Fremont is becoming a robot factory
00:15Full Self-Driving is now a subscription service with over a million users, and unsupervised RoboTaxis are already operating in Austin
00:25Then there's the XAI investment, not as a side project but as part of a system—vehicles, robots, reasoning, and fleet intelligence converging, with Optimus version three in three months
00:34Million-unit production capacity coming online
00:37If you came to this call looking for short-term beats, you missed it
00:40But if you..
00:42Looking for Tesla's endgame, this was the clearest signal yet
00:44Today, we're breaking down what changed and what matters most for Tesla investors
00:48I want to hear Brian White's reaction to it
00:52I want to understand what he thought about the call
00:54He's one of our best and only true Tesla journalists
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01:03Thank you so much, Brian
01:06Great to be here
01:07What an earnings call
01:09It was focused and visionary
01:11I feel like this was one of the better calls we've ever seen, but certainly one of the best recently
01:18And I would disagree with your assessment that if you're looking for a short-term bump, you didn't get it
01:23This is the It's the fourth or fifth consecutive quarter where Tesla beat Wall Street estimates
01:30Pretty good, in my opinion
01:30>> Yeah
01:31Yeah
01:32Uh, for sure
01:33I agree with you
01:34I mean, uh, everything looked honestly, there were very few things to complain about in the call
01:38So, what I want to do is go through each of the big things that they announced
01:42I want to get your thoughts on that
01:44So, the big one, of course, was Model S and X — no longer, uh, it's going to end, and now they're going to use that Fremont factory instead for creating robots
01:57Uh, what's your thought on that? Are you going to miss the S and X? >> Am I going to miss them? Sure
01:59I will, uh, reserve most of my thoughts for tomorrow's show because we will be covering it at length
02:05But this was a small volume segment
02:07It It was high-margin volume, but it's limited volume, and Fremont's a very crowded place
02:13I know they could build a factory somewhere else, but they like keeping their experts close together, and especially in the early days of a product ramp, that is critical
02:24I've always said that they would keep it for as long as they could keep a shift busy, but it doesn't look like they're keeping a full shift busy
02:31And then, in December, I saw that they're building the Optimus space right up against SNX lines
02:39At that point, I said, "Uh, I don't know
02:42I don't think they could put a whole assembly line in the cage that I saw." So, this is going to be SNX, which was a rounding error
02:48The future, Elon Musk said, is all about extreme..
02:51Scale
02:54We're not achieving extreme scale with SNX
02:58>> Yeah, it makes sense
03:03I mean, Fremont, California, is in California, and you want to be as close as possible to the tech industry, and you want robots to be made there
03:07So, I wanted to show you this, Brian
03:09This was one of the decks they shared, one of the slides they presented, where they talked about production, tooling, design, development, and so forth
03:20Here, you've got Model 3, Model Y, more than 550,000 units produced
03:25Model X and X, we know that that's going to go away
03:28Shanghai produced more than 950,000 units
03:34Berlin and Texas, Model Y's, Cybertruck
03:35Now, look at this
03:37They have Cyber RoboCap
03:38They still call it tooling, but we know that it's right on track
03:40I mean, There's, you know, we've been seeing so many of them
03:44They announced that Elon Musk said it's going to be in limited production in April
03:49Tesla Semi is in tooling
03:54Roadster — interesting that they still mentioned design development because they still referred to it as TVD
03:58So they're not convinced that they can meet the April date
04:02And then, the MegaPack wall in Texas is under construction, as well as the new MegaPack, MegaPack 3, and MegaBlock
04:14That's what's expected to come out too, and so forth
04:17So, what's your thoughts on this table here? Well, which ones? I mean, Model 3 and Model Y, so all of the California numbers, we knew, Shanghai we knew, Berlin we knew
04:27We really need to get that volume up
04:30We heard that they're expanding
04:31Production capacity there, for what? I posted on X today, saying, "What do you guys think? Is it going to be the Cybertruck? Is it going to be the Semi? Are they going to introduce the Model 3, which Elon even reminded us today can be built on the same line as the Model Y?" I would not be surprised to see that happen in Berlin
04:51And if they introduce the Model 3 there, right there, you've probably got enough work to add a shift, if not additional equipment, to it
05:02It's interesting that Cybertruck mentions tooling, but not surprising
05:07I would agree that even though they've made dozens, that's still in the tooling phase
05:12This is a radical departure from past manufacturing systems
05:15It's going to..
05:18Take some dialing in, and they're not ready to switch it on today
05:20If they got full approval and realized, "No, we're ready to go," they wouldn't start making thousands a week today
05:27It's just not there
05:29But they wouldn't need to because, as Elon reiterated, your cars can enter the fleet
05:33Nevada—I've been following that every week
05:38I do a video every week covering what has happened, what's progressed, and what we've seen
05:42The Roadster surprised me
05:45You're not even going to tell us where I [clears throat] what [laughter]
05:49That, to me, perhaps indicates it will be in Texas, but I've heard no leaks, no rumors, and I’ve tried to get leaks and rumors about where it is, and I've been unsuccessful
05:54>> Okay
05:58Well, >> It's in SpaceX
06:03>> Um, >> you know, they do have that
06:04It's more of a rocket than it is a car
06:06So, it's being built by SpaceX
06:08I'm just, I don't know
06:10I'm just guessing
06:12>> That would be pretty funny
06:13My guess had always been that it would be built on the Tesla SNX lines
06:15We now know it won't
06:17So now I wonder, are they going to build it on the Cybertruck line? Uh, I don't know
06:21They could hand-build it
06:24It's limited enough production
06:26They could build it on a Pilot line or a genuine Pilot line
06:31>> I don't know what they're going through
06:34>> And they may not know themselves
06:37I mean, he said that we're going to show it to you this year, but then we might actually not deliver it for two years
06:40So >> that would be, that would be
06:43Heartbreaking, but I don't know
06:45It's not a volume product at this point; it's an ego product, and that's great
06:48Make an ego product, uh, in terms of all the Megapack stuff—no surprises there
06:52Shanghai appears to be fully ramped, and I'm saying that because when Giga Shanghai was fully ramped, they were making about $5 million a day in profit
07:00We just saw the quarterly reports; we're now at $10 million a day in profit
07:05That tells me both factories are more or less fully ramped—fully ramped, a million a day, Herbert
07:08A day
07:12You couldn't make that kind of money counterfeit out of sight like that
07:15It's amazing
07:19So, oh, and then of course we will have the Megapack begin ramping in the second half of this year
07:23So, that is free money
07:26And the automotive margins, margins
07:30At 20%, energy margins at closer to 30%
07:33What that means in both categories is you could lower the price a little and still make a killing
07:37>> Yeah
07:41One of the themes I think that Tesla emphasized was, um, and they said it; I think twice
07:44Lars called Tesla a transportation-as-a-service company, and the Roadster is going to be the last drivable car we're ever going to make
07:57He said that, and that's why we want to do it justice
07:59We want it to be the coolest drivable car you can ever have, a flyable car
08:04Also, Elon Musk mentioned it too
08:09So, this move, this idea that Tesla will no longer make, uh, you know, SUVs and so forth
08:14But take a look at this—the semi truck, that photo they released; this is the newly redesigned Semi 2.0, right? And, uh, it sure looks like it's going to be a..
08:23Autonomous, an autonomous vehicle
08:27>> What makes you say that? Well, first of all, Tesla themselves have started referring to robo-trucking, which they have not in the past
08:31>> I apologize
08:35Second, >> I thought you meant the physical design of it looks like >> I don't think so
08:39No, I don't think anything here shows it to me that it's more [clears throat] than ever
08:44>> So, no, I agree with you
08:46>> In your intro, you said Tesla may just stop selling
08:48We know years ago that Elon Musk said, "We don't want to sell cars
08:52We want to—if I could sell you a car, Herbert, and make $5,000, $10,000 profit, then I can give it to you, and you can make $3,000 a month off of it." That $5,000 to $10,000 a month in profit off of it
08:58And for $10,000, it would be..
09:05More like the truck
09:11But if I could, why would I sell it to you? Wouldn't I want to keep it for myself? Isn't that the objective? And I think they could do it
09:19I think it'll take time
09:21I think they'll continue selling while they transition to not selling
09:26>> Yeah
09:26>> But when you've got something this valuable, why would you give it away? >> Yeah
09:29Let's talk FSD and RoboTaxi
09:32Obviously, that's the most important part
09:35They share this table here
09:37Cumulative miles driven with FSD supervised
09:39So, you can see >> in red is FSD miles of version 12 and beyond
09:44Clearly, so much better in version 11, and it just took off
09:46That's where things are starting to grow
09:50Version 14, and it looks like that hockey stick is still going up
09:52We've hit
09:55The seven billion miles of supervised driving, and onward we go
09:57They started testing driverless robo-taxis
10:01Elon confirmed that they're no longer doing chase cars anymore
10:04Um, they, I think, said 500 cars, Ashok mentioned 500 cars during peaks and valleys
10:14Um, they're no longer going to sell the FSD package; you can't just buy it outright
10:17You have to do a monthly subscription, and that ends in a couple of weeks, February 14th
10:25Um, the cumulative paid robo-taxi miles are now increasing again, reaching about 650 miles, 50,000 miles
10:33And then, this is the big one—the big table they shared that explains planned robo-taxi coverage
10:41We know the San Francisco Bay Area is still under the safety driver phase
10:44Uh, we know..
10:46That in Austin, they now have at least three cars that are unsupervised
10:49Elon said there's no more chase cars, and those cars are just driving around, but there may be three cars, and they're going to increase it
10:57Elon also said that we're going to roughly double the number of vehicles in the RoboTaxi fleet
11:01And it looks like this is the direction they're heading
11:05So, what do you think about this list? I mean, Texas is growing every month
11:07Every month
11:08Double every month
11:10Correct
11:12So let's see—Austin, clearly they're going to do Dallas and Houston
11:14That makes sense, but at least they put a date for the first half of 2026
11:18Now, this is not Elon saying it's all going to be done by the end of the year
11:22This is an actual earnings deck showing first half 2026
11:27This is usually more accurate than Elon Musk's statements
11:30First half 2026
11:33You’ve got Dallas, Houston—that makes sense
11:36Phoenix, I think we've heard that
11:37>> Miami
11:39I don't think we've heard Orlando and Tampa, and then Las Vegas
11:40So here's the surprise: Miami, Orlando, and Tampa
11:43It looks like a big fork in the road
11:46What do you think about this list? >> So, I love it
11:49The first two, obviously, we knew Dallas and Houston, like you said
11:52If you can master Austin, Dallas and Houston are slightly easier regulatory environments, or exactly the same
12:02I forget—I think Austin has additional restrictions that don't exist elsewhere in the state, but it might be statewide
12:05I, I may be..
12:08Misremembering, but if you can do Austin, you can do Dallas and Houston
12:12And that means that in the second half, maybe next year, the whole state or certainly all the metros in the state
12:18Phoenix, we've seen test vehicles, and Phoenix is easier than almost anywhere else in the country due to the newness of the roads and road planning, and the consistency of the weather
12:31I know James Stevenson, I think, told me that he had seen test vehicles in Orlando
12:37But Orlando just makes sense because, I don't know if you know this, I have it on good authority, a fair number of tourists go there
12:46Wouldn't you love to hop in a driverless cab and, while you're in it, realize I can just buy one of these and have it for my own? So that's..
12:58Something that, you know, and this ride just cost us 35 bucks
13:01For three times that, we can pay for our own FSD and go everywhere
13:06[laughter] >> In our..
13:07So, yeah, well, I mean, just crazy
13:09So those are really good markets to hit
13:13Doesn't surprise me
13:16We've also seen testing in crazy places like Chicago and in the Northeast
13:20Those are a little more boss battle-style levels that you'd have to unlock when you've got sufficient points, but none of that surprises me
13:30What I loved seeing was those first two graphs that showed the FSD miles driven
13:35And you're correct, when version 14 hit, it got steeper
13:40Is it going to get steeper next quarter? Yes
13:42Yes, I think so
13:44Absolutely
13:45Because more cars are going out the door that have..
13:47This hardware
13:49It's going to—yes, simply yes
13:51>> And so, when does the hockey stick level out? I don't know, man
13:54Maybe it doesn't
13:56>> I don't think so
13:57>> For years
13:57>> Yep
13:59>> Uh, miles paid, miles driven
14:01That surprised me; I had no idea it was that high
14:02But that means they're at like half a percent of what Waymo has done, which [snorts] I mean, sounds anemic, but Waymo's been doing this forever
14:10Uh, and Waymo does have more cars, a couple thousand, and Tesla does not have a couple thousand, but they probably will in the first half
14:21The brevity of this time scale is what tells me it's real—the brevity of it, the quickness with which, in four, five months, five and a half months, they're going to get to this many markets, that many
14:33Vehicles
14:35That means they know their approach is scalable
14:38Very exciting
14:41>> Remember, you and I had a discussion last week, and one of the things that, uh, I can't remember who said it—I think I did
14:48I think I did
14:56Remember when I said that the Cybertruck very likely will become an autonomous vehicle, and they would not >> that that would have been you >> that they are not planning to get rid of it because it's such a..
15:03you know what? They're selling 50,000 of that or 30,000
15:05It's not a lot that they're making of that one, and somebody asked the question, right? Would you just make a different kind of Cybertruck? Laura said, yeah, we could
15:15The line is said divine
15:17They've designed..
15:19Such that we could create different kinds of, you know, Cybertruck vehicles on it
15:22So it's very, it could still very likely be that they didn't shoot it down, that they can create a pickup truck, truck-looking Cybertruck, but more likely they said that we're going to make this into an autonomous vehicle
15:34That was a bit of a shock, taking the Cybertruck to become autonomous because of deliveries
15:39They brought it up, right? Lots of deliveries
15:43So that was a bit of a fun side note
15:46What's your thoughts on that one? >> I knew a guy who created a business delivering stuff to job sites
15:52Do you really want your plumbers and your electricians to leave and run to Home Depot and grab just goofball fittings, or can we bring them for you? It's cheaper to..
16:04Pay someone to bring it now
16:05Imagine if your truck could just go get it
16:07Not even your truck—maybe it's Home Depot's truck
16:09They have their own delivery trucks that sit around all day waiting for you to be willing to [clears throat] pay $8 extra, $10 extra, to have the sink brought in
16:17Let it in, Herbert
16:20Let it in
16:23Uh, so that would be— that's an easy business to imagine
16:27Uh, it's not— it's not, uh— who is it that— it's not— what's the company called where you can just order random stuff and they deliver it? Um, you know what I'm talking about, like Uber Eats, but for anything
16:39It's that, but with a giant truck and no tip
16:45[clears throat] >> Easy
16:47It's a great business
16:49And I apologize for doubting you
16:51>> No, it was it
16:52That was a good, uh, guess on my part
16:54Next topic here is the investment in XAI, Brian
16:58So, it was a surprise to almost everybody that—oh, they just announced it right on January 16th
17:06So, that was literally a week ago, or maybe 10 days ago
17:08Tesla entered into an agreement to invest approximately 2 billion dollars to acquire shares of Series E preferred stock of XAI
17:18Now, some people say, well, you know, this is—uh, this is Elon, this is conflict of interest, but they said no, this is part of Master Plan 4, and you heard them explain that the Giga Austin factory will be used for all sorts of things like the cars, robots, reasoning, and then Elon said, oh, by the way, when you have a fleet of RoboTaxis, when you have a fleet of robots, you need..
17:49Some brain, some orchestra conductor to manage who they're all going to, what they're going to do, and how to efficiently maneuver them
17:55You need Groq to do that at that level
17:57So, what do you think about this investment? >> I've seen people early on having really, really strong opinions on both sides
18:06My thought is, it's fine
18:07It's fine
18:09It's not a big investment
18:11Two billion dollars from a company that has over 40 billion in cash on hand is not a big deal
18:15Less than 5% of the cash on hand
18:18Acquiring a stake in a company that big, that's a very small stake; that's not a big deal
18:23The companies are already somewhat integrated
18:26XAI surely gets real-world training data from Tesla, and Tesla already gets Groq's technology from XAI
18:35They've already..
18:38Got a very close partnership
18:40My question had always been, what is that partnership about? Tell me what it means
18:44Now we have an answer
18:47If you're mad that they're spending money to get part of the company, I would say relax
18:50XAI is going to be worth more in the future than it is today
18:53That two billion in the future will be worth more than two billion today
18:57Even if you don't count the value of the cooperation in the interim, it's going to be fine
19:04And Elon should have started that company within Tesla
19:08Tesla has an AI division
19:13You cannot attract rockstar talent when the company is already near its all-time high
19:17You can't do that
19:19They needed to get those people in the door, make them all
19:21Millionaires so they would stay
19:24And that's what XAI did
19:26Now we've got a stake
19:28I'm fine with it
19:30How about you? >> I'm fine with it, but I think it's a little too small
19:33I think it feels like a very, um, what do you call it? Like a token investment
19:38Two billion sounds like a big number, but in terms of Tesla's $44 billion of cash on hand, two billion is not a big deal
19:46But if they spent more than two billion, >> yeah, exactly
19:49>> I prefer things like that
19:52But if it's more than two billion, the problem is that Tesla needs all $44 billion
19:54They just finished telling you there's a whole long list
20:01>> Can you do it for me? Can we? Let's do it today
20:03Let's see if we can forget anything here
20:04Here's all the things that Tesla is going to be
20:07Building
20:09So, they have over 20 billion, just in the 20 billion
20:12We've got the Texas factory, we've got Optimus out in California, we've got the Cybertruck in Texas, we've got the Semi, and some retooling for things within the factories
20:23We also have the new R&D building that they didn't even mention
20:26The 20 billion doesn't include solar and chips, so I mean, oh, and lithium
20:31There's more
20:36I mean, there is Giga Texas, Cortex 2 is under construction, they're going to make, of course, the Cybertruck
20:42They have the robots you've mentioned
20:44There is a Megafactory, a Megapack factory, that are going online
20:56The lithium refinery was one; lithium refinery is going online or is under development
20:58The 4680 battery cell factory is another one
21:02List here of AI training compute
21:06This was a shocker to me too
21:08So Cortex 1 is more than 100,000 H100 equivalents
21:11That's in production now
21:14Cortex 2 is under construction
21:16But if you look at this, this one—OMG, did you see this? >> Yes
21:19>> Holy cow
21:22So here we are, December
21:23We're in December 2025
21:25Here we are right here
21:27January 2026
21:28Right here
21:30>> Look at this
21:33It is going to go boom in March, in March
21:37>> So, this boom is massive
21:42It's going to go from, let's say, 150,000—well, it's already at 100,000 now—so it needs to go up to 150,000, and then it's going to reach 200,000 to 300,000
21:47Like, it's 275,000
21:53Anyway, so, is that Cortex 2? >> It's got to be Cortex 2 coming online
21:55And we talked about this last week
21:58I think we discussed where..
22:01You were asking me when will it come online, and I said the first half
22:04The first half is when I think it will come online
22:06Um, and what I would argue is, if you look at this chart, it just doesn't make sense
22:10I would say that when Cortex 2 comes on, when we're at 275,000 H100 equivalents, that is probably capable of doing as much compute in a day as the world has ever done through probably 2007 or 2008 in total
22:29It's impossible to wrap your head around
22:32What do you need it all for? Well, to solve every problem imaginable, including the ones that haven't been imagined
22:40So, >> good one
22:43>> It's [laughter], it's going to be a lot of things that can do anything
22:45>> Although imagine the unimaginable
22:47Okay, good one
22:48Yeah
22:49Um >> just those two
22:50Things
22:51It's easy
22:52[laughter] >> Yeah
22:54So, all that capital expenditure, that 44 billion, and though, and fortunately, we didn't have questions in the shareholder deck about stock buybacks
23:03Come on
23:05>> Thank you
23:07Thank goodness
23:09Can you imagine two years ago, that was the biggest topic? Everybody wanted stock buybacks
23:11All these analysts, including some we know of, were pushing hard for stock buybacks
23:18>> Dude, we won't mention >> 24 billion is not enough for now
23:19We need more than that
23:22In fact, here we are talking about buying, getting loans, >> going into debt, using the revenue, the stable revenue that's going to come from Robo-taxi as collateral to borrow money against >> because all these things are about to happen
23:4020 billion worth of investment this year
23:44And then somebody said, is that just for this year or ongoing? It sounds like it's ongoing because of TerraFab, solar farm, and other expansions
23:50This, in my opinion, is not just a one-time thing
23:55The beauty of all this is that many of Elon Musk's companies have these insane cost requirements, and as soon as they start the project, the revenue begins to show up
24:08You couldn't just put Starlink's entire constellation on a credit card
24:11Good news: you don't have to
24:13As soon as we reach one-tenth of the projected first deployment, we can start monetizing
24:22They did, and the more satellites they get up, the more they will monetize
24:25Now they're adding a million subscribers in a In a matter of months, they can add whole countries
24:30They can charge a fortune to airlines and ships at sea because it is so much better than what they had, and it's worth it
24:37You can get great bandwidth because you are the only aircraft in that entire cell at that moment, so give them all the bandwidth they need
24:42It's fine
24:48So yeah, this is like a lot of things Elon Musk does; it looks more expensive than it is
24:53Every one of these steps—semi-trucks, factories—is going to start generating revenue realistically anytime soon, in the next three months
25:00Oh, sure
25:07In the first half, it might not generate gross revenue, but it will start, maybe not net profits necessarily because they begin advertising the factory, but it will begin generating
25:14Revenue, uh, that'll start offsetting all those costs, and within a year, it'll be moving good units and profitable
25:23So all that expense will have been worth it
25:28You look at a Megapack factory; those only cost a couple hundred million to put up, which means you only need to and they make five million dollars a month in profit, or a day in profit
25:32A day
25:37Five million dollars a day
25:41It'll pay for itself in two or three quarters
25:43So the money is there, and that's what those banks see
25:50 >> We got to talk about Optimus, and then we need to discuss the financials
25:52So, Optimus, he said, version three, will be deployed, uh, revealed this quarter
25:58So we're talking, you know, January, February, and March
26:01February and March, in the next two months, we'll see version three
26:03They He said that it's going to be surprisingly realistic, it'll look like a human
26:08You and I had that fun debate one day, and I said I think it's going to have skin
26:12It's going to look like something that resembles skin
26:15So, it really does look like there's a TV series from the UK called Humans
26:20Gemma Chan was in it, and you know, they look exactly like humans, right? >> That's great
26:29Um >> Saves on the effects budget
26:31>> [Laughter] Exactly, just to make them look like humans
26:36It's so easy, right? But just make them walk like this
26:39>> Uh, but you know, he did say that production isn't going to happen until the end of next year
26:45He threw a lot of water on the idea, so a little more calm about it
26:49About expectations, it's very, very difficult to know how many they'll make, and he didn't even give a number
26:54He said production starts at the end of this year, so that's a little bit of a, you know..
27:01 >> I hope they don't do the demo too early
27:03I love seeing people who say, "Oh man, I just saw a demo from some little company, and their robot is so far ahead of Tesla's." And I know because I saw Tesla's latest generation over a year ago
27:17 >> Yeah, >> my friend, my brother, I'm telling you, you do—[laughter]—you do not know what's going on inside that research facility
27:26And neither do I
27:28I'd very much like to know, but I assure you, they have not been sitting around waiting for the competition to catch up
27:31Uh, I think..
27:34We will see a very capable physical robot
27:37What [snorts] I don't think we'll see is a do-anything-and-everything robot
27:43I think it needs a lot more training
27:44>> That's what he said
27:46That's exactly what he said
27:48>> It's going to be very capable of some things, but we do need all that training to come online for it to handle bigger tasks, for it to understand some of those more delicate things
28:01I think what they're worried about right now is getting power consumption under control
28:06It's very easy to make a prototype that can do things, but then you've got to start optimizing the efficiencies to make it run longer on the same battery, or to make it run on a smaller battery
28:12All those things
28:19Because if it can only run for 30 minutes, not very useful
28:26And very quickly, let's go through this revenue
28:29Quarterly revenue decreased 3% year-over-year to 24.9 billion
28:31Uh, and then here's the impact, and I've reviewed this before already
28:37Um, profitability, operating income decreased 11% year-over-year
28:43So, this is what people are saying, you know, but of course margins were great, cash was great
28:49But a lot of this, do you think it was already expected? Anything here surprising you? Yeah, I'm surprised how strong regulatory credits still were
28:59They were, what, $692 million
29:01They were $7.5 million a day in regulatory credits because, although the US is aggressively phasing them out, if they..
29:12I haven't entirely done so; they still exist in other markets where Tesla operates, and they are still eligible for those
29:20So losing that, while losing some percentage of that, while maintaining profitability, is fantastic
29:26Of course, the foreign exchange—I had no idea which direction it would go
29:30I never do
29:33And yeah, growth in automotive, other areas—look, of course, the revenue is down a little bit
29:38Of course, sales are down a little bit
29:40The whole company shut down all of the factories making their most popular car
29:44What did you expect was going to happen? To me, this was a very strong earnings report
29:49And you know, it was because Wall Street missed by such a big margin—almost 20% they missed it by
29:57That, to me, is a..
30:01Sign of strength
30:04>> Huge beat in earnings per share, 50 plus cents, whatever it was, instead of 42%
30:08Some people were calling for it to be that high
30:10So, great, great, great across the board
30:13Great, you know, report
30:16I wish they had given a little more guidance, which I don't think they did
30:18Last time, for example, they might say we're increasing volume production of cars by 50%
30:24We're going to have this many car robots
30:27We're going to..
30:29So, it's good that they held back, but they told the story
30:31We are becoming a transportation-as-a-service company, and you start seeing the signs here
30:35>> Thank you, Brian
30:38>> All the pieces fit
30:40>> Appreciate you
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