Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Revenue-to-Profit Sankey Flow & SEC XBRL Financials
Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) carries a Roarable Rating of C (Hold) with 64/100 RQD Confidence. The underlying business is intact, so current owners don’t need to panic-sell—but mixed big-money flow or rich pricing means new buyers can afford to wait for either a pullback or a B-or-higher upgrade.
How TSLA Turns Every Dollar of Sales Into Real Bottom-Line Profit
Multi-Year SEC EDGAR XBRL Revenue, Net Profit & Free Cash Flow Trajectory
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Gross Margin | Op Margin | Net Profit | Free Cash Flow | ROIC % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2025 | $94.83B | 18% | 4.6% | $3.79B | $6.22B | 4.7% |
| FY 2024 | $97.69B | 17.9% | 7.2% | $7.09B | $3.58B | 8.7% |
| FY 2023 | $96.77B | 18.3% | 9.2% | $15.00B | $4.36B | 13.8% |
| FY 2022 | $81.46B | 25.6% | 16.8% | $12.56B | $7.57B | 35.4% |
| FY 2021 | $53.82B | 25.3% | 12.1% | $5.52B | $5.01B | 28.7% |
| FY 2020 | $31.54B | 21% | 6.3% | $721.0M | $2.79B | 12.1% |
Tesla's FY2025 Form 10-K (accession 0001628280-26-003952) materially pivots corporate risk disclosures from traditional automotive unit manufacturing economics toward execution bottlenecks in autonomy, humanoid robotics, and compute-infrastructure scaling. Management explicitly couples future enterprise viability to the commercialization of Cybercab, FSD, and Optimus while stripping out legacy facility expansion commitments such as Gigafactory Mexico. This redline shift highlights severe operating leverage risks, surging compute/power datacenter capex requirements, and heightening exposure to critical AI silicon supply constraints.
Tesla has explicitly re-anchored its primary going-concern operational thesis away from core automotive volume manufacturing to unproven L4/L5 full autonomy and dedicated Robotaxi platforms. If regulatory approvals stall or FSD software fails to deliver unsupervised commercial deployment, the core enterprise narrative collapses without traditional low-cost EV volume cushions.
Management quietly stripped specific geographic production site designations—most notably abandoning mention of the previously hyped Gigafactory Mexico project. This disclosure retreat reflects a de facto freeze on speculative overseas greenfield capex in response to automotive margin compression and shifting tariff/geopolitical dynamics.
Legal counsel removed decade-old historical references to Model X and Model 3 manufacturing bottlenecks to install explicit forward risk language regarding commercialization failures for Optimus humanoid robots. This creates an immediate liability shield for multi-year timeline slippages and heavy R&D burn on non-automotive robotics projects.
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SEC XBRL FY2024 → FY2025: Disciplined near-zero share dilution.
vs. +8.3% actual YoY revenue growth (assuming 9.25% cost of equity & 16.5x terminal multiple).
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100% OPEN ACCESS • SEC EDGAR × CBOE × FREDHow profitable is Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)?
In FY 2025 (10-K), TSLA converted $94.8B of revenue into a 18% gross margin, 4.6% operating margin, and $6.2B in free cash flow (6.6% FCF margin).