Tesla Inc. late Wednesday noted its sixth-straight quarter of earnings and a sales defeat, but skipped Wall Street expectations as well as disappointed investors which hoped for a clear cut product sales goal for the year.

Margins had been one more sore point for investors, plus Tesla stock fell as much as 7 % in after-hours trading, according to stop.xyz

Tesla TSLA, 2.14 % claimed it had $270 million, or maybe 24 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, as opposed to earnings of hundred five dolars million, or perhaps eleven cents a share, inside the year ago quarter. Adjusted for one-time items, the Silicon Valley automobile maker earned eighty cents a share.

Revenue rose 46 % to $10.74 billion from $7.38 billion a year ago, thanks in part to “substantial growth” in deliveries, the business said.

Analysts polled by FactSet anticipated adjusted earnings of $1.02 a share on product sales of $10.47 billion.

“The miss was pushed by weaker-than-expected margins,” Garrett Nelson with CFRA believed. Moreover, “Tesla did not supply 2021 automobile sales guidance, in addition to saying it expects full-year sales to surpass its longer term yearly growth goal of 50 %. We think the statement is apt to be seen negatively.”

Chief Executive Elon Musk “probably opted to be much less specific provided various uncertainties,” which includes those who are pandemic related, Nelson said. Moreover, without a certain target for the season, Tesla offers itself much more versatility as well as set itself up for “underpromising therefore they can overdeliver.”

Tesla had topped analyst forecasts every reporting day time since October 2019, when it reported a surprise third-quarter 2019 profit from expectations of a loss. The year 2020 marked the very first full year of earnings for the company.

The typical selling price of its vehicles fell eleven % year-on-year as the mix of its went on to shift to the more affordable Model three and Model Y from its luxury Model S and Model X vehicles, the company said within a letter to shareholders. A call with analysts is actually due for 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

Tesla additionally shied away from providing a straightforward sales outlook. Rather, the company said it had “simplified our way to assistance for 2021” in order to focus on long-term goals.

Tesla plans to produce manufacturing capacity “as quickly as possible” and over a “multi year horizon” expects to hit a fifty % typical annual growth in automobile deliveries, the proxy of its for sales.

“In some years we may grow more quickly, which we are planning to become the truth in 2021,” it said.

A growth right at fifty % would mean the delivery of about 750,000 automobiles this year, that would evaluate with more or less below 500,000 cars delivered in 2020, a year marred by factory stoppages and delays on account of the pandemic.

The FactSet surveyed analysts look for deliveries roughly 800,000 vehicles due to this season.

The company claimed it remained on track to start vehicle production at its Texas and Germany factories this year, with in house battery cells. It’s also on track to start selling the commercial truck of its, the Semi, by way of the end of the season.

Tesla shares have gained nearly 700 % in the previous 12 months, compared with profits around seventeen % for the S&P 500 index SPX, -2.57 %.