The call, on record
LCID bearish call
Quoted text as recorded“it's really tough to see how they get anywhere close to anything that could be a profitable business when they're losing so much money on each vehicle at the scale they're at”@ 10:52 · open at this moment on YouTube ↗
Our interpretation
- Source published
- Jan 12, 2024
- Interpreted confidence
- medium
- Specificity
- vague
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Our summary of the thesis
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The host views Lucid's Q4 delivery and production report as confirming worsening demand problems, with inventory days climbing sharply and production and deliveries down meaningfully year over year. He expresses strong skepticism that Lucid can reach profitability at its current cost structure and scale.
Key arguments
- Lucid delivered 1,734 vehicles and produced 2,391 in Q4, both up quarter over quarter but down 10% and 32% year over year respectively
- Using Tesla's days-of-inventory calculation, Lucid would be at roughly 230 days of inventory, about 5,300 undelivered vehicles
- The host says it is very difficult to justify massive future investments when the company can't achieve a working cost structure at current scale
- He suggests Lucid might not still exist without Saudi Arabia's capital backing
Counter-arguments acknowledged
- The upcoming Lucid Gravity model could help somewhat with scale
- Lucid has continued capital backing from Saudi Arabia for now
Hedges and caveats (from the video)
- Giga Berlin pause report from Reuters not directly confirmed by a Tesla statement at time of recording
- Cybertruck delivery reports from forum users not independently verified, though evidence presented seemed legitimate
- Toyota's solid-state battery timeline comments treated with skepticism by the host
- Bloomberg report on Tesla pay increases did not specify the size of the increase
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- Source published
- Jan 12, 2024, 1:36 AM UTC
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Why we interpreted the confidence this way
Hedged phrasing ('tough to see how') lowers conviction slightly, but the statement is a clear, unequivocal view that Lucid's business and by extension its investment case is deeply troubled given elevated inventory, falling production, and capital dependence.