Tesla tops $1 billion in profit, delays Semi launch

Revenue roseate 98% to $11.96 billion, from $6.04 cardinal a twelvemonth ago.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected Tesla to study adjusted net of 94 cents a stock connected income of $11.51 cardinal for the quarter. The 4th marked the eighth GAAP, arsenic good arsenic adjusted quarterly, nett for the EV maker.

Tesla said it remained connected way to physique its archetypal Model Y compact SUV successful factories going up successful Berlin and successful Austin, Texas, this year, with the gait of the accumulation ramp “influenced by the palmy instauration of galore caller merchandise and manufacturing technologies, ongoing supply-chain related challenges and determination permitting.”

“To amended absorption connected these factories, and owed to the constricted availability of artillery cells and planetary proviso concatenation challenges, we person shifted the motorboat of the Semi motortruck programme to 2022,” Tesla said successful a letter to investors Monday.

Tesla said it is “making progress” successful getting the Cybertruck, Tesla’s electrical pickup truck, acceptable for sales, with accumulation inactive planned for the Austin mill aft the Model Y production.

Tesla reported a mixed archetypal 4th successful April, beating Wall Street expectations for adjusted nett but missing the income forecast by a hair, with the institution beset by parts shortages and different snags.

Tesla shares person mislaid astir 6% this year, and are holding connected to gains of astir 133% for the past 12 months. That compares with an beforehand of astir 18% and 37% for the S&P 500 scale SPX, +0.24% successful these aforesaid periods.