Tesla (TSLA) Now Eligible For S&P 500 Inclusion

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Tesla (TSLA) is now eligible for inclusion into the S&P 500 index, thanks to another profitable quarter despite the presence of a pandemic. During Q2 2020, Tesla posted a non-GAAP net income of $451 on revenue of $6.036 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimates. With these results, Tesla has achieved what critics thought of as impossible — it was able to record four profitable quarters in a row. 

With four profitable quarters, Tesla has now met the requirements for an inclusion into the S&P 500, which requires that a company’s last four quarters in summation are profitable, and that the previous quarter is profitable. Prior to Q2 2020, Tesla has already recorded three consecutive profitable quarters: $143 million in Q3 2019, $105 million in Q4 2019, and $16 million in Q1 2020. This meant that even a $1 profit for the second quarter could have qualified Tesla for the S&P 500. 

But Tesla posted far more than that. With a $451 million non-GAAP net income, Tesla’s Q2 was a strong quarter. This would likely put the S&P 500 on notice, and it could pave the way for the EV automaker to be included in the esteemed index. After all, Tesla is already larger than 95% of the S&P 500’s members, dwarfing other carmakers in the index like GM and Ford. 

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The inclusion of Tesla into the S&P 500 has not been confirmed yet, but the company’s Q2 2020 results suggest that there is a good chance that it will be added to the index in the near future. As stated in a recent Bloomberg Intelligence report, Tesla may be up for S&P inclusion even if it were to record a loss in Q2. This was because of the company’s current size and position in large-cap benchmarks. As it turned out, these special considerations were not required.

Tesla bull Rob Maurer explained in an episode on his Tesla Daily Podcast that Tesla’s inclusion into the S&P 500 would likely benefit the EV automaker. This is because the index is benchmarked by many financial firms that manage trillions of dollars. It’s speculated that a good number of these financial firms do not have TSLA stock yet. 

Since these companies tend to purchase shares of new members of the S&P 500 or risk deviating from the index itself, these firms will likely end up buying TSLA shares once the company qualifies for the index. Tesla is not part of the S&P 400 either, which means that the number of funds buying into the company will likely be significant. 

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