Elon Musk Predicts Tesla Will Be Bigger Than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet Combined Thanks to This $10 Trillion Opportunity

The Cybercab opportunity could pale in comparison to Optimus, a humanoid robot that Musk is more excited about than any other product in the company’s history. He says it probably has a thousand times more uses than a car, which means it can be sold into a variety of different markets.

Musk says several thousand Optimus robots will be used internally at Tesla this year to complete repetitive jobs humans don’t want to do, like transporting sheet metal to a welding line. They could eventually be deployed in factories all over the world across countless industries, and they might also be popular in households to perform basic cleaning tasks.

In fact, Musk thinks humanoid robots will outnumber humans by 2040. He believes Tesla will manufacture them at a cost of around $20,000, which opens the door to a sale price of under $30,000. That price will probably decline over time as the company becomes more efficient, and as competitors enter the market.

Musk put forward some ambitious targets in his fourth-quarter conference call with investors. He thinks the production ramp-up will potentially grow fivefold every year from now to eventually reach 100 million annual units.

In the long run, he says Optimus could generate north of $10 trillion in revenue.

If Tesla’s market cap does eventually exceed the combined value of Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, it will translate into a stock price of around $4,660. That implies a 1,200% upside from where it trades today.

The prospect of a 12-fold return sounds enticing, but investors need to consider the potential risks. Tesla’s earnings per share (EPS) plunged by 53% during 2024 to $2.04, placing its stock at a price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 190.7. That means the stock is substantially more expensive than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet right now:

Tesla stock would have to fall by 78% just to trade in line with the average P/E of those five stocks (40.2). That is the potential downside investors could face if Musk and his team fail to deliver meaningful progress on platforms like FSD and Optimus over the next year.

I think 2025 will be a transition year for the company. The Cybercab isn’t expected to reach mass production until 2026, and Optimus production figures will probably be nominal for several more years. In fact, Musk isn’t fully confident Tesla will hit its target of 10,000 humanoids this year.

That means its financial performance will hinge almost exclusively on passenger EV sales for at least the next 12 months. Considering they shrank last year, it makes the company’s valuation even harder to stomach.

I don’t recommend investors jump in on Tesla stock today, but if they do, they must be prepared to hold it for at least the next five years to maximize their chances of a positive return.

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