GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY vs Tesla, Inc., two Auto Manufacturers stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where GM and TSLA diverge most: on revenue growth, GM reads -2.0% and TSLA reads +3.1%; on debt / equity, GM reads 0.00 and TSLA reads 0.11. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What GM's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What TSLA's price implies is an extreme bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | GM | TSLA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $77.83 | $407.43 |
| Market cap | $72.1B | $1.44T |
| Sector | Auto Manufacturers | Auto Manufacturers |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 28.4 | 373.8 |
| P/B | 1.11 | 17.01 |
| P/S | 0.39 | 14.73 |
| EV/EBITDA | 3.6 | 141.7 |
| Revenue growth | -2.0% | +3.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 21.1% |
| Operating margin | 6.7% | 4.2% |
| Net margin | 1.4% | 4.5% |
| Return on equity | 3.9% | 5.2% |
| Return on assets | 0.9% | 3.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 3.1% | 3.4% |
| FCF yield | 20.5% | 0.5% |
| Dividend yield | 0.7% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.11 |
| Current ratio | 1.15 | 2.04 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.22 | 7.38 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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