Tesla Q3 Profits Fall 43% as Energy Storage Business Contracts

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Tesla reported a 43% decline in profits for the third quarter of 2026. The company's energy storage business also contracted during the period.

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A significant profit decline signals weakening financial performance for one of the world's largest automakers and energy companies.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

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0 discretionary purchases · 1 discretionary sales

Confidence: Low

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Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
Chief Financial OfficerTaneja Vaibhav	Informative sell	Common StockOpen-market or private transaction (S)	2,605.75	$360.134	$938,419	Sep 8, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerTaneja Vaibhav	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	6,539	—	—	Sep 5, 2026
CEOMusk Elon	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	303,960,630	—	—	Jun 16, 2026
CEOMusk Elon	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	17,531,857	—	—	Jun 16, 2026
Chief Financial OfficerTaneja Vaibhav	Informative sell	Common StockOpen-market or private transaction (S)	2,605.5	$402.197	$1,047,924	Jun 8, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

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Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	6,538,720 (2.591%)	258,925,024	$100,066,754	12/31/2025
Blackrock, Inc.	Buy	6,028,120 (2.897%)	214,123,129	$82,752,166	6/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Buy	1,172,768 (0.641%)	184,023,551	$71,119,582	6/30/2026
State Street Corp	Buy	2,761,298 (2.408%)	117,456,756	$45,393,512	6/30/2026
Geode Capital Management, Llc	Buy	911,610 (1.341%)	68,914,720	$26,633,472	6/30/2026
Invesco Ltd.	Buy	583,293 (1.063%)	55,464,442	$21,435,343	6/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Buy	297,610 (0.604%)	49,550,535	$19,149,795	6/30/2026
Capital World Investors	Buy	2,831,596 (6.6%)	45,735,669	$17,675,464	6/30/2026
Jpmorgan Chase & Co	Sell	-4,102,874 (-8.905%)	41,972,287	$16,221,030	6/30/2026
Fmr Llc	Buy	3,738,248 (10.376%)	39,766,224	$15,368,453	6/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Sell	-305,313 (-0.779%)	38,872,087	$15,022,895	6/30/2026
Norges Bank	Buy	726,279 (1.907%)	38,812,422	$14,999,837	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Sep 30, 2026	70,931,312	36,582,381	+3.00%	1.94
Sep 15, 2026	68,862,357	40,108,176	-7.23%	1.72
Aug 31, 2026	74,230,933	36,423,555	+7.27%	2.04
Aug 14, 2026	69,196,896	32,128,184	+1.01%	2.15
Jul 31, 2026	68,501,639	44,213,010	-3.04%	1.55
Jul 15, 2026	70,646,375	39,663,962	-10.70%	1.78
Jun 30, 2026	79,109,257	45,999,264	+1.18%	1.72
Jun 15, 2026	78,183,135	48,798,744	—	1.60

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Jun 2026	Jul 22, 2026	0.04	0.32	-87.5%
Mar 2026	Apr 22, 2026	0.18	0.21	-14.29%
Dec 2025	Jan 28, 2026	0.31	0.34	-8.82%
Sep 2025	Oct 22, 2025	0.37	0.41	-9.76%

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