Post 6_Chapter 8: Common Stock Valuation

Using the most recent information you can find, determine how you TESLA is financing itself. This implies that you should try to find information about your company's capital structure. Additionally, using Yahoo finance or another source of information, determine if your company has issued bonds between 2020 and 2022. . If the company has issued several bonds, select the most recent bond issue and find the bond's coupon rate and the number of years to maturity (when the bond was issued). Also, find out why the company has issued the bonds, e.g. to repurchase their stocks? If the company has not used bonds to raise capital, has the company used bank loans? If yes, how much interest has the company paid during the last 5 years? Try to determine why the company is not using bonds (message(s) from the CFO, CEO .). If the company only relies on equity to raise capital, try to determine why (message(s) from the CFO, CEO .)?