Rivian's Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025 (msn.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/2333200/rivians-stock-spikes-27-after-reporting-144-million-profit-in-2025
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rivian-finds-a-way-to-shine-even-as-the-ev-market-struggles-in-the-dark/ar-AA1WjTa5
They add that Rivian's strong earnings results suggest that "after years of struggling with losses, it may have at last found a path to profitability."
> On Thursday, Rivian reported gross profits for 2025 of $144 million, compared with a net loss in 2024 of $1.2 billion... Rivian credited the swing to gross profit to "strong software and services performance, higher average selling prices, and reductions in cost per vehicle..." Rivian delivered 42,247 vehicles in 2025 and produced 42,284 vehicles. The company still reported a $432-million net loss for the year for automotive profits, an improvement from 2024.
But Rivian's software and services revenue grew more than threefold to $1.55 billion for the year, [2]reports TechCrunch . "And the joint venture with Volkswagen Group was behind most of that growth, according to Rivian."
> VW and Rivian formed a [3]technology joint venture in 2024 that is worth up to $5.8 billion. The joint venture is milestone-based and in 2025 Rivian hit the mark, which meant a $1 billion payout in the form of a share sale. Under the terms of the JV, Rivian will supply VW Group with its existing electrical architecture and software technology stack... Rivian is expected to receive an additional $2 billion of capital as part of the joint venture in 2026, CFO Claire McDonough said Thursday on the company earnings call... And while the funds provide a hefty stopgap, Rivian's financial success in 2026 will hinge largely on the rollout of its next EV, the R2 [priced around $45,000].
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rivian-finds-a-way-to-shine-even-as-the-ev-market-struggles-in-the-dark/ar-AA1WjTa5
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/rivian-was-saved-by-software-in-2025/
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/the-rivian-volkswagen-joint-venture-deal-is-now-up-to-5-8b/
This is amazing (Score:2)
Because it means they only need 144 years of this profit to hit their market cap!
And this is still somehow infinitely better than Tesla.
The stock market is massively overvalued and we all just have to pray to hell that it continues to be for at least another three to five years.
Because when the correction hits, and it will sooner or later it always does, it's going to hit like the fist of a god. And we are going to need at least moderately competent people in charge or we are more fucked than us
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That's not how market caps work. If you recall, Amazon didn't make a profit until its 10th year, and then, it was tiny. Compared to its market cap, that profit was infinitesimally small. This is because in the first decade, Amazon's investors plowed tons of money into the company to build it up. Since then, their profits have soared, reducing its P/E ratio to about 27x. Rivian's profits will likewise grow, unless they mismanage the business or calamity strikes, bring the P/E ratio to a more reasonable numbe
The profit isn't from their cars (Score:2)
Rivian's profits are from their software that VW purchased.
Their cars are ranked as the most unreliable cars in the United States, unfortunately.
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Rivian isn't that bad. Consumer Reports counts every minor problem and tallies that up for a reliability score. So the transmission in your Ford can grenade itself and that counts the same as a Rivian having a squeaky dashboard.
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[1]https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/ [roadandtrack.com]
And reading the "unreliability" reasons, I would be frustrated, but I wouldnt be dead Tesla due to updates frustrated, or have to pay $99/mo for my auto driving ability after I literally paid 10k for the privilege frustrated.
[2]https://www.moneydigest.com/2069324/youve-been-warned-consumer-reports-electric-vehicles-least-reliable/ [moneydigest.com]
Which is a cash grab by Musk for his Trillionaire markers.
[3]https://www. [thepricer.org]
[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
[2] https://www.moneydigest.com/2069324/youve-been-warned-consumer-reports-electric-vehicles-least-reliable/
[3] https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-does-tesla-full-self-driving-cost/
The Musk in the Room (Score:2)
I would imagine that having your lead rival completely self-own themselves doesn't hurt either.
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My God! You are so, so smart in a superficial shallow sort of way! Looking forward to your academic treatise that upends all of economics! The next Adam Smith, here on Slashdot, of all places!
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> My God! You are so, so smart in a superficial shallow sort of way! Looking forward to your academic treatise that upends all of economics! The next Adam Smith, here on Slashdot, of all places!
Cool, now that we've got the obligatory mean-girl style personal attack out of the way, is he wrong ?
Would you claim that Musk loudly and publicly allying himself with Trump, the GOP, DOGE, and various ultra-right-wing European political groups, and regularly spouting off online like a 13-year-old 4chan edgelord, was a wise course of action, when he's also the person in charge of a company whose income stream depends on selling electric vehicles to environmentally-conscious liberals?
In my city, a large perce
Re: The Musk in the Room (Score:3)
Or people have been told for half a century that trickle down, laissez faire capitalism would make us all prosperous. And all the while, Republicans and Democrats have been shaking hands to send our jobs over seas.
Tuition is up, housing is less affordable, and unsecured debt is way up. Opportunities to move up are far fewer than they once were for the working class. The quality of life for the bottom 50% has plummeted while our cities have turned into something worse than the shithole countries we used to i
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> You saw Harris tell us the economy was great under Biden because the stock market went up. Middle America called B.S. because most people don't have stocks!
That's a defense against the republicans trying to say the economy went backwards under Biden.
Heck even Bondi tried to use the DOW being up as a defence in her congressional hearings recently, and those hearings are about human trafficking!
I digress - sometimes you can fight fire with fire if everyone in your audience doesn't know any better.