Today we’re kicking off a new spotlight on another very popular segment in the EV space – stocks. Over the past couple years, we’ve seen EV automakers financial bolstered or inhibited by IPOs, SPAC Mergers, or updates to their EV plans. Below, you can see how some of the companies building EVs compare side by side on Wall Street and how far they have come – or fallen – in the past year.
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Comparing three different groups of EV stocks
Below you will find three separate tables, each unique in its own way, but each part of one cohesive set of data – how companies that are building some degree of EVs are doing stock-wise over the last month, how each compares to its competitors, and how each company’s numbers compare to its status a year ago.
The first chart is a global stock comparison, including legacy and EV automakers around the globe. We have included their highest stock price in their primary market, regardless if it’s in the United States or not. For instance, companies like Volkswagen Group and BMW are primarily sold on the XETRA German Electronic Exchange, Volvo Cars is on the market in Sweden, etc.
The second chart includes EV stocks sold in the US market. You may see some of the same automakers, but they may have different tickers, as they pertain to one of the United States’ several local exchanges.
Last but not least, we couldn’t provide EV stock numbers without delivering a table dedicated specifically to EV automakers, right? The third table consists of automakers that manufacturer EVs only – no legacy automakers that are starting to dabble in electrification here. In this table, you’ll see some startups that have gone public in recent years and how they’ve fared so far. Spoiler alert – not great.
Keep in mind, not one granule of this post is financial advice. It is simply stock data relevant at the time of this posting, compiled into one place for you to peruse, compare, and draw your own conclusions. With that, let’s start with the top ten EV stocks around the globe in October.
* – Compared to 9/30/22 IPO / ** – Compared to 11/8/21 IPO
It should come as no surprise that American automaker Tesla is number one in EV stock. Despite a pretty big fall compared to October 2021, the EV company is still nearly double the value of its second place competitor Toyota, which it dethroned as the world’s most valuable automaker years ago.
We feel a bit generous including Toyota in this list of EV stocks, because it’s just starting to dip a pinky toe into the BEV pool with its bZ4X, which will see boosted production following a massive recall pertaining to the EV’s wheels literally falling off. A steady outlook for BEV production could be a reason for Toyota being in the green compared to a month ago. Still, it remains down overall YOY.
Following its IPO split from parent Volkswagen Group on September 30, Porsche showed the biggest gains in October by a lot, jumping nearly $18 in value. We will keep eyes on this going forward to better gauge its early valuation and see how it pans out over time.
Moving our sights to US-specific markets, Tesla is again your top dog (get used to it). Toyota again grabs silver, but Build Your Dreams (BYD) is holding in third place for October, despite a near $11 loss in valuation compared to a month ago. Still, it has bested American automaker GM.
What may be most impressive about BYD’s success in the US market so far is that the company does not sell passenger EVs in the country – only commercial vehicles like buses and heavy-duty trucks. Household names round out the rest of the US list and include two nascent EV automakers in Rivian and Lucid Group. More on them below.
If you’re here reading on Electrek, you may agree that this last list is the most exciting and probably most volatile head to toe. These 13 companies make up a lot of the EV stock being sold around the world. More importantly, they showcase just how drastic valuations can be between established scaled automakers and EV startups.
Tesla is once again the group leader (surprise surprise), followed by BYD, who continues to expand its footprint outside of China and into new markets, particularly in Europe right now.
The next two on the list are names you’d expect – Rivian and Lucid. Both are relatively young in the stock world but show minimal drops this month despite growing pains in scaling their respective EV production lines. YOY comparisons have not been kind to either young automaker, especially Rivian, which is down nearly $100 per share following its massive IPO in November of 2021.
Other Chinese EV automakers with US stock market presence join BYD on the list, including NIO and XPeng. Like BYD, neither sell passengers EVs in the country yet. Companies 10 through 13 are the current bottom feeders – EV startups that have yet to deliver an EV, and their valuation shows it.
Each of these companies has its own unique potential in a booming market, but each has faced its own setbacks in reaching scaled production. Whether their hurdles have been financial, infrastructural, or even controversial, these startups continue to fight on.
Of all of the companies on these EV stock lists, these may be most exciting to watch succeed and grow their valuation – if they can. Time will tell.
That’s all for now, check back with Electrek next month for the November report, so we can once again compare how these EV company stack up. Not only against one another, but also against themselves.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to officially join Trump’s administration as the co-head of the new US Department of Government Efficiency – a second federal department with the goal of making government spending more efficient.
You can’t get more ironic than that.
Throughout the elections, Musk, who is already CEO of Tesla, and SpaceX, a well as the defacto head of X, xAI, Neuralink, and the Boring Company, has been floating the idea to add to his workload by joining the Trump’s administration to lead a new department aimed at making the federal government more efficient.
He has been calling it the “Department of Government Efficiency”, which spells out ‘DOGE’, a meme that Musk appears to enjoy.
Well, now Trump appears to want to be going through with this idea.
He announced the new department and Musk as head, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, in a statement today:
I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”). Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the “Save America” Movement. “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” stated Mr. Musk.
What’s most ironic is that there’s already a federal department with the goal of cutting government waste and ensuring efficiency: the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The GAO’s main objectives are:
auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively;
investigating allegations of illegal and improper activities;
reporting on how well government programs and policies are meeting their objectives;
performing policy analyses and outlining options for congressional consideration;
issuing legal decisions and opinions;
advising Congress and the heads of executive agencies about ways to make government more efficient and effective
It sounds similar to what Musk described when talking about his DOGE, but Trump hasn’t gone into many details other than it will “cut waste.”
He also has a confusing message as he compares the initiative, which is supposed to cut government spending, to “The Manhattan project”, a massive and expensive government project.
Trump said that DOGE will help the government “drive large scale structural reform”:
It will become, potentially, “The Manhattan Project” of our time. Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of “DOGE” for a very long time. To drive this kind of drastic change, the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.
The statement also noted that DOGE will only operate until July 4, 2026.
Musk has previously claimed that he could cut at least $2 trillion dollars of the $6.5 trillion dollar US federal budget.
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A pump jack in Midland, Texas, US, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.
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Oil prices may see a drastic fall in the event that oil alliance OPEC+ unwinds its existing output cuts, said market watchers who are predicting a bearish year ahead for crude.
“There is more fear about 2025’s oil prices than there has been since years — any year I can remember, since the Arab Spring,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at OPIS, an oil price reporting agency.
“You could get down to $30 or $40 a barrel if OPEC unwound and didn’t have any kind of real agreement to rein in production. They’ve seen their market share really dwindle through the years,” Kloza added.
A decline to $40 a barrel would mean around a 40% erasure of current crude prices. Global benchmark Brent is currently trading at $72 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures are around $68 per barrel.
Oil prices year-to-date
Given that oil demand growth next year probably won’t be much more than 1 million barrels a day, a full unwinding of OPEC+ supply cuts in 2025 would “undoubtedly see a very steep slide in crude prices, possibly toward $40 a barrel,” Henning Gloystein, head of energy, climate and resources at Eurasia Group, told CNBC.
Similarly, MST Marquee’s senior energy analyst Saul Kavonic posited that should OPEC+ unwind cuts without regard to demand, it would “effectively amount to a price war over market share that could send oil to lows not seen since Covid.”
However, the alliance is more likely to opt for a gradual unwinding early next year, compared to a full scale and immediate one, the analysts said.
Should the producers group proceed with their production plan, the market surplus could nearly double.
Martoccia Francesco
Energy strategist at Citi
The oil cartel has been exercising discipline in maintaining its voluntary output cuts, to the point of extending them.
In September, OPEC+ postponed plans to begin gradually rolling back on the 2.2 million barrels per day of voluntary cuts by two months in an effort to stem the slide of oil prices. The 2.2 million bpd cut, which was implemented over the second and third quarters, had been due to expire at the end of September.
At the start of this month, the oil cartel again decided to delay the planned oil output increase by another month to the end of December.
Oil prices have been weighed by a sluggish post-Covid recovery in demand from China, the world’s second-largest economy and leading crude oil importer. In its monthly report released Tuesday, OPEC lowered its 2025 global oil demand growth forecast from 1.6 million barrels per day to 1.5 million barrels per day.
The pressured prices were also conflagrated by a perceivably oversupplied market, especially as key oil producers outside the OPEC alliance like the U.S., Canada, Guyana and Brazil are also planning to add supply, Gloystein highlighted.
Bearish year ahead for oil
The market consensus is that there’ll be a “substantial” oil stock build next year, said Citibank energy strategist Martoccia Francesco.
“Should the producers group proceed with their production plan, the market surplus could nearly double… reaching as much as 1.6 million barrels per day,” said Francesco.
Even if OPEC+ doesn’t unwind the cuts, the future ofl prices is still looking break. Citi analysts expect Brent price to average $60 per barrel next year.
Further fueling the bearish outlook is the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, whose return is associated by some with a potential trade war, said analysts who spoke to CNBC.
“If we do get a trade war — and a lot of economists think that a trade war is possible, and particularly against China — we could see much, much lower prices,” said OPIS’ Kloza.
For that to happen to retail gasoline prices, oil would need to drop to “below $40” per barrel, said Matt Smith, Kpler’s lead oil analyst.
Right now, retail gasoline prices are at a “sweet spot” at $3 per gallon, where consumers do not feel the pinch and input prices are still sufficiently high for producers, Smith added.