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Today’s Rip: Tesla falls following 40% profit dip, Beyond bumps 100%+ before falling back, and more. 📰
Kevin Travers
October 22, 2025 • Reading Time: 13 minutes
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Tesla Looking Red
The market fell Wednesday as tech sold off, following weaker-than-expected reports from Netflix. After the bell, Tesla disappointed with its Q3 report despite the first revenue growth in nine months, and IBM beat estimates but its stock sold off after a 30%+ gain this year.
The gov shutdown is now the second-largest in history, with no end in sight. Meme stocks flew, Beyond Meat flew at open, up nearly 100% and almost hitting $8/share, before falling back for the day. Bitcoin fell below $110k again, while gold tried to recover.
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Today’s Rip: Tesla falls following 40% profit dip, Beyond bumps 100%+ before falling back, and more. 📰
4 of 11 sectors closed green. Energy $XLE ( ▼ 1.01% ) lead and industrials $XLI ( 0.0% ) lagged.
EARNINGS
Tesla Falls After Record Deliveries Meet Record Expenses 🚘️
Tesla was falling $TSLA ( ▼ 3.4% ) after the bell. The EV giant pulled in $28B in revenue for the quarter, a 12% climb after some flat growth this year, but adjusted earnings were down 31% to just 50C/share, below estimates that expected a 24% drop. The initial release held little promise for the future, for a stock that is highly dependent on forward-looking ideas.
Operating profit fell a whopping 40% in the quarter. The company said the “difficult-to-measure impact” of trade and changes to its carbon emission credit sales hurt the bottom line. Carbon credit sales fell 44% to $417M. The profit decline came as automotive sales grew to nearly 500k, a record high number of deliveries.
“While we continue to execute on innovations to reduce the cost of manufacturing and operations, over time, we expect our hardware-related profits to be accompanied by an acceleration of AI, software, and fleet-based profits,” the company said in its shareholder presentation.
Tesla’s energy business grew 44% to $1.1B in gross profit. By revenue, energy and carbon sales together bring in nearly $4B, compared to $21B in automotive revenue for the quarter. The company bills itself as a tech firm, pushing its self-driving goals and new robotaxi service, but ‘services and other revenue’ only pulls in $3.5B.
Tesla praised the expansion of its robotaxi services in Austin and San Francisco Bay, but made no mention to any revenue the services pull in.
Musk said on the earnings call that Tesla is the leader in real-world implementation in AI, and said people are not appreciating the shockwave that will hit when software updates turn Teslas into full self-driving. He did not say when that would be. Musk did say he hopes to have robotaxi operations in eight metro areas by the end of the year. As he concluded his opening, saying FSD helps him “imagine a world with no poverty,” the stock fell further. 🙄
The release is just two weeks away from Chief Elon Musk’s big annual meeting, where shareholders will vote on his $1T pay package.
Tesla watchers went ‘extremely bearish’ on Stocktwits
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MORE EARNINGS NEWS
IBM Beats Estimates, But Stock Sells Off
IBM beat estimates and raised guidance for the coming quarter, but the stock fell after hours $IBM ( 0.0% ).
The American computer maker said Q3 revenue was $16.33B, and adjusted earnings were $2.65/share. Revenue was up 9% from last year, with software sales leading growth. The company grew its cash pile by $3.1B, ending the quarter with a whopping $15B in cash,
"Clients globally continue to leverage our technology and domain expertise to drive productivity in their operations and deliver real business value with AI. Our AI book of business now stands at more than $9.5 billion," said Arvind Krishna, chairman, president, and CEO of IBM.
Winnebego $WGO ( 0.0% ) shares flew after the RV caravan company swung to a fourth-quarter profit, sales climbing 7.8% to $777.3M. It was a record day for the stock, the most it has gained in one day for 45 years. The company said its typically older customer base shifted younger in the past quarter.
Intuitive Surgical climbe $ISRG ( ▼ 0.87% ) after the robot surgery company posted Q3 earnings that topped estimates. It expects its da Vinvi system to grow a total 17.5% this year, upping its past forecast for 15%.
TRENDING
Meat Alternative Looks More Like Alternative Asset Than Stock 🍔
Beyond Meat flew Wednesday, up more than 1010% at one point, following what can only be described as a retail investor feeding frenzy. Sure, there was some news to pin the move to: Beyond Meat announced Walmart would soon sell six packs of the firm’s fake meat. The stock was also added to the $MEME ( 0.0% ) stock ticker, but the real news was about a potential short squeeze.
Tracked on stocktwits, retail trader sentiment for BYND had shifted to ‘extremely bullish’, climbing a few notches higher since the start of the week. The 24-hour message volume for the ticker rose 180%.
It was the talk of the town at Stocktoberfest, with resident retail traders describing the jump as a clear sign that the powers that be are looking to create high volume to get out of the stock, while retail is jumping on the fun and sending prices flying.
The stock felt more volume today than the Nasdaq 100, and Dow Jones Industrial Average combined. 🤯
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