Tesla Short Sellers Mint $4 Billion Profit as Shares Nosedive - Bloomberg.com
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- Tesla missed quarterly earnings as free cash flow turned negative and margins slid
- Tesla short sellers booked roughly $4 billion in profits as shares nosedived on the results
Why it matters: Tesla's negative free cash flow and margin compression delivered $4 billion to short sellers on a single print, and Yahoo Finance's headline specifically frames the miss as a potential red flag for Rivian and Lucid investors tracking Tesla's trajectory.
