Polestar, a New EV Company, Arrives This Week. It’s Worth More Than Rivian.

Text size Polestar expects to ship 50,000 electric vehicles in 2022 and 124,000 in 2023. Courtesy Polestar Polestar, the electric vehicle maker being spun out of Volvo Car , should begin trading on Fr...

A New EV Company Arrives This Week. It’s Worth More Than Rivian.

Text size Polestar expects to ship 50,000 electric vehicles in 2022 and 124,000 in 2023. Courtesy Polestar Polestar, the electric vehicle maker being spun out of Volvo Car (ticker: VOLCARB.Sweden), sh...

EV Start-Ups Are Getting More Orders. Why the Stocks Are Still Getting Bruised.

Text size Fisker’s Ocean SUV arrives later this year. Courtesy Fisker Electric vehicle start-up Fisker is getting more orders for its all-electric SUVs. So are rivals Lucid and Rivian Automotive...

Polestar Announces an Electric SUV. It’s a Tesla Model Y Competitor.

Text size Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath with the Precept concept car. Polestar photo Polestar, the electric-vehicle start-up born from Volvo, has a new SUV model. The news likely will give shares of t...

Rivian’s Great EV Expectations Meet the Harsh Reality of Manufacturing

At Rivian Automotive Inc.’s factory in Normal, Ill., life is anything but. Car factories around the world routinely churn out models around the clock. About eight months after production on Rivian’s e...

Should You Buy or Sell Rivian Stock? What One Analyst Says To Do Now.

Text size Electric-car maker Rivian went public on the Nasdaq in November. Courtesy of Rivian Wall Street is sticking with its Buy call for Rivian stock. Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh says that current ...

Rivian Might Be Shaking Up Management. That Isn’t Why Investors Are Excited.

Text size Rivian stock has been rebounding after taking a beating for most of the month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Rivian Automotive is shaking up its production plans and management. “We have upda...

Rivian CEO Bought Stock in the EV Start-Up. The Shares Are Rising.

Text size CEO R.J. Scaringe’s recent purchase means he owns about 4.5 million shares of Rivian stock. Courtesy of Rivian Rivian ’s CEO R.J. Scaringe stepped up and bought the dip in his company’...

Switzerland’s Central Bank Bought Apple, AMC, Tesla, and Rivian Stock

Text size Apple stock is holding up better than the broader market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The central bank of Switzerland increased positions in some of its largest U.S.-traded equity investments in t...

Rivian’s Earnings Missed Forecasts. Why the Stock Is Up.

Text size Electric-vehicle maker Rivian went public in November. Courtesy Rivian Electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive missed first-quarter estimates. Shares are up, anyway, because the report was...

Many EV Startups Need More Cash. Rivian Isn’t One of Them.

Text size Door panels at Rivian’s assembly plant. Courtesy Rivian Trading in shares of electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive is starting to make no sense. The stock was down almost 20% Mon...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

Rivian’s IPO Lockup Is Almost Over. Here’s What that Means for the Stock.

Text size Door panels for the R1T, Rivian’s electric pickup truck, are ready for installation on the trim line. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive investors have been dealing with a lot lately. S...

Ford Posts $3.1 Billion First-Quarter Loss, Maintains 2022 Outlook

Ford Motor Co. F 0.95% swung to a net loss of $3.1 billion in the first quarter, a reversal largely driven by a steep loss in valuation of its stake in electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. ...

Ford’s Earnings Took a Huge Hit From Rivian. Wall Street Is Happy Anyway.

Text size Ford’s shares have moved about 7% or 8%, up or down, on average after the past four quarterly reports. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor reported first-quarter earnings that mode...

Rivian Predicts a Shortage for EVs Far Bigger Than Chips—Batteries

Text size A battery pack heads to the chassis line at the Rivian plant in Illinois. Courtesy Rivian The menu of shortages is expanding for car makers. First, the appetizer: the chip shortage. The main...

Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage

NORMAL, Ill.—Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe is warning that the auto industry could soon face a looming shortage of battery supplies for electric vehicles—a challenge that he says ...

Rivian Gets Its First Sell Rating From Wall Street. The Stock Is Rising.

Text size Rivian is expected to produce fewer cars than Wall Street had anticipated this year. Courtesy Rivian Wall Street has been pretty positive on Rivian Automotive stock, despite some rocky tradi...

Rivian’s Production of Electric Trucks More Than Doubles. The Stock Falls.

Text size Courtesy Rivian Production at Rivian Automotive grew in the first quarter from the fourth, but the stock was falling Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) reported first-quarter production on Tue...

Rivian Stock Gets a Target Price Cut. Wall Street Is Trying to Catch Up.

Text size Most analysts still rate Rivian shares Buy, despite the stock’s recent decline. Courtesy Rivian Analysts are adjusting their price targets for Rivian Automotive stock to reflect its ex...

Soaring Nickel Will Drive Tesla, EV Players to Do This With Batteries

A basket of metals that go into lithium ion batteries is up 64% so far in 2022, which theoretically raises the sticker price of an average electric vehicle. Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images Text si...

Stick With Tesla Stock Even if Wall Street Is More Bullish on Other EV Names

Text size A Lucid Air. Courtesy Lucid Motors Electric-vehicle stocks have been, well, horrible so far in 2022. Barron’s tracks about 20 EV makers from around the globe. That group overall has given up...

Tesla, EV Stock Valuations Make No Sense. Time to Recalibrate.

Text size A man plugs in his electric vehicle for charging Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images Wild trading, due to a plethora of issues, has made it nearly impossible to track valuation of electri...

Chinese EV Stocks NIO, XPeng and Li Auto Sink Again. What’s Wrong? Everything.

Text size LI Auto via Weibo Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese electric-vehicle producers were tumbling again Monday, leaving shareholders reeling. A couple of issues seem to loom larger in investors’ mind...

Rivian Stock Slumps After Earnings. Wall Street Says Buy the Dip Of Course.

Text size Courtesy Rivian If we learned anything from Rivian Automotive earnings and the reaction of the stock, it’s that the company’s production ramp-up isn’t happening fast enough for the market. W...

Rivian Earnings Are Coming. Wall Street Is Cutting Price Targets in Preparation.

Text size The average analyst target price for Rivian is down to about $116 a share from $133 over the past month. Courtesy Rivian Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter numbers...

Rivian Stock Ends a Hard Week With a Price Target Cut

Text size Rivian Courtesy Rivian Investors in electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive are having a tough week. Shares slid again Friday after Baird analyst George Gianarikas cut his price target for...

Rivian Stock Is Falling Because EV Prices Are Rising. Investors Aren’t Happy.

Text size Prices for some Rivian vehicles and trim levels are rising up to 20%. Courtesy Rivian Prices for new electric vehicles from electric truck maker Rivian Automotive are rising to help the star...

Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

Giant U.S. Pension Bought Up EV Stocks NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, and Rivian

Text size A Nio eP9 car Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images The second-largest U.S. pension by assets bought up shares of four electric-vehicle makers as 2021 was coming to a close. Unfortunately, the...

Beware Trading Based On 13F Data, Which Reveals A Preference For Tech

There’s no denying that the market has been particularly turbulent in recent months as inflation soars. Market watchers are debating whether inflation has peaked, which will impact which stocks ...