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Tesla makes an awfully daring move.

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Welcome to Motley Fool Money.

I'm Tyler Groh, and today I'm joined by longtime Fool contributors Matt Frankel and John Quast.

Guys, the earnings firehose has been set to full blast this week because we have seen a slew of earnings reports across just about every industry.

We can't hit everything in this one show alone.

We're going to focus on the big companies and the bold moves today.

We'll look at Meta and Microsoft moving big time in the market, but we're going to start with what's mentioned in the headline here with Tesla.

The company reported earnings per share of $0.50 for the quarter.

It beat estimates, but it was down 63% from this time last year, and it was the lowest fourth quarter earnings results since 2020.

Now, what likely surprised anyone more than anything else in the numbers was Tesla's very ambitious capital spending plan and the things they were talking about on the conference call.

Tesla announced it will more than double its annual capital spending to $20 billion for 2026.

Elon Musk floated the idea of building his own semiconductor fab.

factories.