Quick Read – TSLA fell 18% in a week after Q2 EPS of $0.33 missed consensus and free cash flow swung to negative $1.09 billion. – The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk’s 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S.
EV nameplate in 2025. – Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Tesla didn’t make the cut
Grab the names FREE today. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors got a brutal reminder last week that ambitious targets can curdle into cautionary tales. A Bloomberg report published July 22, 2026 argued the Cybertruck has eclipsed the Ford Edsel as the auto industry’s benchmark commercial flop on a target-versus-actual basis.
Hours later, Tesla posted a Q2 earnings miss, and the stock logged its worst week since 2022. The Edsel Yardstick Ford launched the Edsel in 1957 with projections of 200,000 units in its first year. It sold less than one-third of that target, and its vertical grille (mocked as resembling a toilet seat) became shorthand for corporate failure that has endured nearly seven decades.