Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) inventory is wrapping up the buying and selling week on a excessive notice, revving 10% larger to over $18 as of 12:30 p.m. ET — and for a most stunning cause:
This morning, funding financial institution Mizuho raised its value goal on Rivian…to $15 a share.
What Mizuho stated about Rivian
Let me repeat that: Rivian inventory closed at greater than $16 final night time. Mizuho simply stated it is solely value $15 (and gave the shares solely a impartial score — not a purchase). And traders responded by bidding Rivian inventory up as an alternative of down.
Does this make any sense in any respect?
Properly, sort of. Whereas Mizuho would not appear significantly impressed with Rivian’s valuation, analyst Vijay Rakesh did say some type issues about Rivian’s electrical truck enterprise. Particularly, he famous that the corporate elevated second-quarter electrical automobile (EV) deliveries 9% 12 months over 12 months to about 13,800 models, whilst manufacturing of new EVs was solely about 9,600 models. So not solely did Rivian ship extra EVs than most analysts forecast (11,500), but it surely additionally will need to have cleared out a whole lot of unsold stock in promoting about 44% extra electrical vans than it constructed within the quarter!
Is Rivian inventory a purchase?
Now, issue these strong gross sales developments into what Mizuho says is the massive story of Q2 — Volkswagen‘s $5 billion funding, which has the potential to single-handedly remedy Rivian’s cash-flow issues — and issues are beginning to lookup for Rivian.
Admittedly, Rivian remains to be nowhere close to worthwhile, and it is nonetheless burning a whole lot of money. However the steadiness sheet seems to be much more strong than it as soon as was, liquidity danger has vanished in the interim, and “RIVN has a superb product roadmap with its lower-cost R2 in 1H26E.” Whereas success is much from assured, the corporate now has a strong shot at turning into a worthwhile EV maker as an alternative of going bankrupt.
Rivian shareholders have good cause to really feel glad about that.
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