Victoria Greene on Tesla's Auto Struggles and Tech Potential, and Texas Instruments

Tesla: Auto Struggles vs. Tech Potential

• 💡 Victoria Greene views Tesla as a hold, acknowledging its current struggles as an auto company, calling it a "dumpster fire" due to missed deliveries and sales challenges.
• 🚀 The narrative for Tesla as a tech company, however, remains attractive, with ongoing potential in robotics, full self-driving, and AI.
• ⚠️ Greene suggests that if politics takes a backseat, investors might focus more on Tesla's tech story, potentially overlooking automotive sales pressures exacerbated by heightened EV competition.
• 📉 She advises against doubling down on Tesla stock given the company's warning of potentially rough quarters ahead due to automotive sales pressures in Europe and Asia.

Texas Instruments: Opportunity or Caution?

• 📌 Texas Instruments is also viewed as a hold, but with caution due to the tone of their recent earnings call.
• 📊 The company's CEO expressed concerns about tariffs, suggesting that demand might not have bottomed out and that recent sales could have been a pull-forward.
• 🚗 With industrial and automotive sectors accounting for about 70% of Texas Instruments' revenues, a slowdown in car sales (affecting companies like GM and Tesla) directly impacts their chip demand.
• 📈 Greene notes that Texas Instruments, a strong chipmaker, may have gotten ahead of itself, trading at a high PE ratio (31x), and that the current price might reflect a re-rating.