Missing a whisper number can be a disappointment, but Tesla’s quarterly result looks fine. Tesla needs to sell about 515,000 cars in the fourth quarter to match 2023’s 1.81 million vehicles sold. Wall Street currently projects 490,

Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA slipped 1.38% to $258.02 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP falling 1.53% to 17,910.36 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.

Tesla’s 462,890 deliveries last quarter was in line with consensus forecasts but failed to match the 470,000 projected by some analysts.