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Emily Flippen

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

And there's also this element of, can these goals be fudged?

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

For instance, the 5 million active full self-driving subscriptions, it's not clear whether or not those are paid or if they can be given out for free, for instance.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

So there's also, I think, a lack of clarity about how these goals could be delivered upon.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

And in my opinion, I think the operational goals are actually worse for Tesla than just doing pure market cap-based goals.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

We saw that work for companies in the past.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

I wish that's what it was, but...

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

I actually, I'm so excited to see how this plays out for Musk and Tesla.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

Oh, there's no doubt in my mind that we're going to be sending robots to space any day now.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

Oh, you are so off base, Luna.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

I mean, you're right in the sense that, yeah, pizza sales for these companies are declining, but people want pizza.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

People demand the pizza, but they just want it from a gas station.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

And I think this is what everybody is sleeping on.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

I mean, I look at a business like Casey's General Store, the ticker C-A-S-Y.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

They are the fifth largest pizza retailer in the United States, and they are a convenience store based in the Midwest.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

Their inside sales, so sales made inside their locations, are driving massive comp growth in large part due to their prepared foods, and pizza is by far their most popular option.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

And this is true across the board, even with private chains.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

Sheetz, Buc-ee's, Wawa just introduced pizzas.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

These gas stations are aware of the fact that people want cost and convenience.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

And I think when you look at that difference, yeah, there are some elements of the K-shaped recovery with people in the middle class being squeezed especially.

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Investors Get Cold Feet in a Hot Stock Market

But I think in this case, when you're looking at Chipotle and Kava and all these other brands that are saying they're losing share, they're losing share to convenience stores.