Tesla cares about Free Cash Flow. This fine negatively and materially impacts FCF. Tesla cares about this fine.
They obviously care about losing $300M.
Like, if they have a chance, they are going to keep $300M.
That is obvious.
OP's point is - it is not having any impact on Tesla's reckless decisions.
Stock price is #1 on the list of their concerns. FCF is somewhere much lower in the list.
"in the short term, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term it's a weighing machine"
They definitely care about the FCF impact of this fine and what it says about future liability.
They obviously care about losing $300M.
Like, if they have a chance, they are going to keep $300M.
That is obvious.
OP's point is - it is not having any impact on Tesla's reckless decisions.
Stock price is #1 on the list of their concerns. FCF is somewhere much lower in the list.
"in the short term, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term it's a weighing machine"
They definitely care about the FCF impact of this fine and what it says about future liability.