NIO Stock Slides as Sales Outlook Falls Short

Coming into Tuesday trading, U.S.-listed ADRs of NIO were down 17% this year and down 34% over the past 12 months. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)

Key Points

• NIO stock fell after the company issued a third-quarter sales outlook that missed Wall Street expectations.
• For the second quarter, NIO reported break-even adjusted profits on sales of $4.7 billion, up 69% year over year.
• NIO expects third-quarter sales of about $5 billion, while Wall Street analysts are projecting $5.3 billion in revenue.

NIO stock is falling after an outlook that didn’t live up to expectations.

Tuesday morning, NIO reported break-even adjusted profits from sales of $4.7 billion, up 69% year over year. Wall Street was looking for a 4-cent per share loss on sales of $4.8 billion, according to FactSet.

Results look fine. Still, shares were down 6.4% in overseas trading, while S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were both off about 0.5%.

The outlook might be weighing on shares. For the third quarter, NIO expects sales of about $5 billion. Wall Street is projecting $5.3 billion in revenue.

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Write to Al Root at allen.root@barrons.com.

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