TOYOTA MOTOR CORP/ vs Tesla, Inc., two Auto Manufacturers stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
The multiples define this pair better than any operating line: Toyota at 7.17 times earnings, Tesla at 347.7, a fiftyfold gap between the world's most profitable volume automaker and the EV company valued on everything but its cars. Toyota earns 13% on equity and nets 9.97% of revenue; Tesla earns 5.19% and nets 4.5%, thinner on both. Both run light debt. Toyota yields 10.8% in free cash, Tesla 0.52%. The pair prices proven auto manufacturing against a moonshot portfolio; Toyota's superior current economics trade at a fraction of Tesla's price, which rests on autonomy, energy, and robotics rather than the vehicles either sells, and the fifty-turn gap is the entire distance between value and story.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | TM | TSLA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $171.77 | $379.00 |
| Market cap | $227.6B | $1.34T |
| Sector | Auto Manufacturers | Auto Manufacturers |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| P/E | 7.2 | 347.7 |
| P/B | 0.93 | 15.82 |
| P/S | 0.71 | 13.70 |
| EV/EBITDA | 3.6 | 131.8 |
| Revenue growth | +15.4% | +3.1% |
| Gross margin | — | 21.1% |
| Operating margin | 10.0% | 4.2% |
| Net margin | 10.0% | 4.5% |
| Return on equity | 13.0% | 5.2% |
| Return on assets | 5.1% | 3.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.7% | 3.4% |
| FCF yield | 10.8% | 0.5% |
| Dividend yield | 8.5% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.11 |
| Current ratio | 1.26 | 2.04 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.68 | 7.38 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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