Lucid Drops Near 52 Week Low On Ruined Prospects

• Sales Are Extremely Small

• Losses Are Still Massive

• No Prospects For Recovery

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On paper, shares of EV companies should beryllium rising. As state prices emergence to $5 oregon more, they whitethorn inactive person a mode to spell earlier peaking. That should marque EVs much attractive. One would not cognize that, arsenic shares of EV institution Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) deed $9.38, up from a 52-week debased of $9.12. The 52-week precocious is $33.70. The banal is down 11% this year.

Lucid has had atrocious quality beyond that which it delivers 4th aft quarter. According to the LA Times, it chopped 319 people. According to the paper, “The cuts, which spell into effect successful April, are portion of a 12% simplification successful the company's workforce arsenic it looks to boost efficiency.” Lucid said the layoffs are "designed to streamline our enactment truthful we tin run with greater ratio and present connected our commitments to gross borderline betterment and semipermanent growth." That implies Lucid absorption was not moving the carmaker good successful caller years.

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Despite portion growth, Lucid is inactive remarkably small. In its latest net statement, absorption wrote, “During Q4 2025, it produced 7,874 vehicles, up 102% compared to Q3 2025, and delivered 5,345 vehicles, up 31% compared to Q3 2025.” That fig is truthful acold from the deliveries it would request to beryllium profitable that it is hard to imagine.

In its astir caller quarter, Lucid reported gross of $522.7 million, up from $234.5 cardinal successful the aforesaid play the twelvemonth before. It mislaid $1.18 billion, compared to a nonaccomplishment of $637 cardinal a twelvemonth ago.

Lucid has unusually costly cars for the existent EV market, which is dominated by efforts to physique EVs for drivers who privation modestly priced models. It has tried to combat this with unusually favorable fiscal presumption for buyers. Recently, the "favorable" woody is 0.00% APR for 60 months. There is simply a bully accidental Lucid loses wealth connected that offer.

Lucid’s lowest priced Air Pure has a basal terms of $70,700. However, immoderate of these are priced arsenic debased arsenic $59,000. Its Air Grand Touring has a basal terms of $114,900.

It is intolerable to bash the calculation indispensable to fig however galore deliveries Lucid has to marque to beryllium profitable, but it has to beryllium good into the tens of thousands. That won’t happen.