These statements are so incorrect I'm not sure if you were serious or trying to be funny and have a lend.
Give me FINANCIAL reasons why Tesla will be around in 5 years Time"
Easy.
- Near Monopoly in the BEVs markets where the model 3 is sold, in a booming market.
Have you ANY idea how many new EV's are about to rain down on the market in the next 12 Months let alone 3 years?
Tesla Couldn't make a profit ( except for 3 quarters in 10 years which no where near covers total losses and expenditure) when they had the market to themselves. You really think they are going to be OK when they are going up against the automotive power houses and the likes of the Koreans and Europeans?
If you do, I'd like to ask how many Tesla shares you own.
- 20-30% profitability
Supposedly on the Model 3 but over all operating costs apart from the last 2 quarters have put them well in the red. The last quarter was a scrape though, the quarter before that was a lot of Book Cooking, let see how they go over the next 12 Months. If they can be posting profits I might change my mind But I trust NOTHING Tesla or Elon say without evidence of it being sustainable and not a one off.
- Over half a million customers waiting in the line.
NEVER had half a million customers waiting. All the backorders for the cars they are producing, IE, NOT the model 3 $35K model which they have touted but NEVER have made and I suspect never WILL make ( that mean the thing was yet another LIE and bit of Marketing BS) Have been filled. Further more Tesla has been having sales and lowering the prices of their Vehicles. This is not the behaviour of a car co with more orders than it can supply.
There are also many pictures and evidence of thousands of cars sitting in holding yards and evidence these holding yards are getting much larger rather than the cars being there for the short term between delivery and customer pick up.
The only orders they have are for the Model 3 $35K Vaporware Version and the normal lead time productions for custom orders.
No one ATM thinks they have ANY significant back orders.
- production figures of approx half a million units/Year
The latest production figures and estimates I can find done last month show production at a bit over 320K units per year. That's a big difference from 500K.
Those numbers are an absolute drop in the ocean in vehicle manufacturing terms.
GM sold nearly 300K cars in December 2018 Alone. Toyota did 220K and Ford did 219 K, also JUST in December. Tesla did 20K.
Honda, Nissan Subaru, Kia, Hyuandi and a whole bunch of the Europeans wiped the floor with them. Bear in Mind, this is US ONLY so the numbers world wide would multiply that. Tesla is selling token numbers outside the US ATM.
Given the new EV offerings By Hyundai, Kia, Merc, Jag and others that are all poised to release EV's this year or have already, You would be a brave man to bet on tesla at this stage although I tend to believe you are probably a lot more misinformed than anything else.
Add to that Tesla has only 3 Models and 2 of them are close to 10 years old, their offerings are limited, expensive and plagued with problems like Build quality and servicing and repair is an absolute joke thats even being lambasted hourly on the fan Boi Tesla sties.
The hero worshipping only has so much reach and when the non fairydust believers and and the Fleet market go to buy vehicles, Tesla is not even going to make the list for these buyers.
For a company that doesn't even advertise, had scarce showrooms, scarcer servicing and repair centres and a CEO/ Leader taken to be a crackpot at best and an outright liar by most to go up against the manufacturers that are producing well built Vehicles at half the price or less, have a dealership in every populated area with servicing, advertising and brand loyalty and recognition, makes NO financial sense to back in anyone with a realistic Views eyes.