TSLATesla, Inc.

Consumer discretionary · Automakers · Nasdaq

We are focused on bringing artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the real world, through products and services like Full Self-Driving (“FSD”) (Supervised) and Robotaxi, as well as working to develop and commercialize AI robots (“Bots”) (including Optimus). 10-K, Item 1

Headquarters: Austin, TX
CEO: Elon Musk
Next results: around Jan 1, 2027

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What the 10-K filed 2026-01-29 says about risks that are not on the face of the balance sheet, from the notes to the financial statements, Legal Proceedings and the MD&A (and, for big customers and key suppliers, Business and Risk Factors). Tickdelta picks sentences with specifics (amounts, accruals, covenant ratios) and quotes them as filed. New marks a sentence with nothing like it in the 10-K filed 2025-01-30.

Big customers

Customers the company names as a large share of revenue or receivables (it must name any worth 10% of revenue).

No specific sentence about this in the 10-K.

Key suppliers

Parts or manufacturing that depend on one or a few suppliers.

“Our products contain thousands of parts purchased globally from hundreds of suppliers, including single-source direct suppliers, which exposes us to multiple potential sources of component shortages.”
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“We are dependent on our suppliers, including single source suppliers, and the inability of these suppliers to deliver necessary components of our products in a timely manner at prices, quality levels and volumes acceptable to us, or our inability to efficiently manage these components from these suppliers, could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.”
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Lawsuits and legal claims

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Pending cases, settlements and what the company has set aside for them.

“Plaintiff’s counsel filed a brief seeking a fee award of 29,402,900 Tesla shares, plus expenses of $1,120,115.50.”
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“The Court held a hearing regarding the settlement on October 13, 2023, after which it took the settlement and Plaintiff’s counsel fees request under advisement.”
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“On January 8, 2025, the Court approved the settlement and awarded Plaintiff’s counsel fees in the amount of approximately $176 million.”
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New “In connection with the settlement, Tesla received $277 million from certain directors and paid Plaintiff’s counsel fees of $176 million (which, as noted above, the Company is appealing) in the three months ended March 31, 2025.”
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“On October 21, 2022, a lawsuit was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery by a purported shareholder of Tesla alleging, among other things, that board members breached their fiduciary duties in connection with their oversight of the Company’s 2018 settlement with the SEC, as amended.”
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Guarantees and indemnities

Promises to pay someone else's debts or losses if they cannot.

“Our maximum exposure on the guarantees we provide if they are unable to sell the vehicle at or above the vehicle’s contractual residual value at the end of the lease term was $3.45 billion and $1.45 billion as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.”
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Debt covenants

Conditions in loan agreements that, if broken, can make debt due early.

“As of December 31, 2025, we were in material compliance with all financial debt covenants.”
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Commitments off the balance sheet

Contracts the company must pay for later: purchase obligations, take-or-pay deals.

No specific sentence about this in the 10-K.

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