MKSGR:
noone1:

I think a good question people should ask, is if Tesla put itself up for sale for 10 billion dollars today, would there be a buyer?

I'm of the opinion that there would be.

You are ignoring the US$ 50bn of equity value... If somebody would buy for 10bn these 50bn would be a write-off Smiley

I am merely talking with respect to debt. I have not much of an opinion on the equity value of Tesla other than I think that it's less than what it is now.

Most people are in two camps -- Tesla will be huge and deserve the valuation, or Tesla will be broke and is worth $0. I'm not in either of those camps. I'm of the opinion that Tesla could be wildly successful selling cars, but be worth $20B and just be less profitable than people hoped. Toyota only sells 20% more cars than GM, but it's worth 3x as much.