Tesla trails Ford and GM in revenue generated per worker
Reuters
Published Feb 08, 2024 02:54PM ET
By Noel Randewich
(Reuters) - As Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk reportedly ponders layoffs, recent financial reports from U.S. automakers show the leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer lags in the amount of revenue generated for each of its employees.
Tesla reported almost $97 billion in revenue last year, equivalent to just under $690,000 for each of its over 140,000 employees.
By comparison, General Motor generated over $1 million in revenue for each of its 163,000 employees in 2023, and Ford Motor (NYSE:F) raked in $937,000 for each of its 173,000 workers.
Investors became increasingly worried about soft demand for EVs and increased competition after Tesla in January warned of "notably lower" sales growth this year.
With Tesla increasingly focused on costs, the company has asked managers whether each of their employees' positions were critical, stoking layoff fears, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
Tesla's stock gained over 1% on Thursday, but the company has lost over $180 billion in market capitalization so far in 2024. Tesla is now valued at $603 billion, just ahead of chipmaker Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) at $601 billion.
Tesla's gross margins - once the envy of other automakers - shrank in the December quarter to their lowest since 2019. In the same quarter, its revenue rose 3% to $25.17 billion, its slowest pace of growth in more than three years.
While Tesla's revenue per worker lagged GM and Ford last year, it improved over 2022, when it was $637,000. Tesla increased its global workforce by about 10% in 2023, according to a recent filing.
Wall Street's tech-related heavyweights have laid off hundreds of thousands of workers over the past two years, shedding some of the jobs they added during the coronavirus pandemic. In many cases they have continued to grow their sales.
Last week, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) reported a 25% surge in December-quarter revenue while simultaneously cutting costs and expenses by 8% after eliminating more than 21,000 jobs since late 2022.
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