Chicago. Phil. Melissa, the reason the stock is shooting higher is because the adjusted eps is 1. 86 profit for the third quarter. And that is far above what most people were expecting. The expect aches, the consensus out on the street was for a loss of 42 cents a share. Revenue came in a little under expectations at 6. 30 billion the expect aches for 6. 33 billion in revenue and looking at the gross margins, 18. 7 is what most of the analyst were zeroing in on in terms of what the expectation was for the third quarter. Remember, many people believed as they were increasing model 3 deliveries, especially at the higher price point, that we might see higher gross margin process. Well the gap auto gross margin coming in at 22. 3 a couple much production notes, first of all, trial production has begun at shanghai plant preponderate remember ramping up production and deliveries in china into the end of the year the model y according to tesla ahead of schedule in the production beginning in
Earnings season when theres too much to keep track of and the action seems to stop making sense. The dow gained 46, the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed up, you have every right to be extremely frustrated stocks that should be going up are going down stocks that should be down are going up human sacrifice, dogs and cats are living together, mass hysteria theres a method to that markets madness you need to understand it. Otherwise, youll have no idea whatsing if on whats going on a close investor is a bad investor so let me walk through some of the craziest examples. Im going to start with caterpillar. Caterpillar, the stock huge shortfall in response of course the stock correctly plunged 6 in Early Morning trading. Well, i thought it was a bit of an overreaction, nothing unusual about a stock going down in disappointing numbers is there its what happens next thats should we take our cue from this hard to explain. Cat down 6 and slowly rebounded. If you saw it near the low, this is a