Experts speak of “Red Flag”
In the Tesla balance sheet a billion dollar gap
Updated on March 21, 2025 – 1:15 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Tesla’s share price continues to crash – the view of the books is also alarming. Purchases at billions of bills do not reappear.
Tesla’s balance sheets for 2024 have a huge gap: As the “Financial Times” writes, there are no counter values for purchases of around $ 1.4 billion in the car company’s books. At the request of the US newspaper, the company of CEO Elon Musk did not comment.
The company titles the expenditure as “acquisition of property and equipment without financing leasing”-as the “Financial Times” speculates, the company’s AI capacities could also be included here. It is not atypical that the expenses and the equivalent in the books do not coincide one to one. As Luis Hail, a professor of accounting, explains the newspaper, there can be reasons for this.
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Nevertheless, these explanations, such as “Financial Times”, can actually be excluded in the case of Tesla. On the one hand, the billion difference for this explanation is simply too great, and Tesla also operates largely from the USA. And despite the work in Germany, an exchange rate could be excluded as the cause – the euro is currently too strong for that. The newspaper could not find records on impairments in the balance sheets.
The “Financial Times” describes the gap as a clear warning sign for investors. Investors could scare the questions about thoroughness to the balance sheet management of the US company. At the same time, it is still conceivable that the difference from the last two quarters in 2024 will balance in the first quarter of 2025.
Nevertheless: The “Financial Times” names other red flags that you want to have found in Teslas. In its bookkeeping, the company indicates, for example, to own $ 37 billion in barres reserves, but at the same time has taken out loans for around $ 6 billion.
Tesla’s shares have crashed since the highest level in December 2024 and have halved in value. In addition to Elon Musk’s growing rejection worldwide, experts are primarily responsible for an overvaluation of the share and unlocking the competition.
