{"id":147675,"date":"2022-10-06T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/tesla-tsla-has-been-upgraded-to-investment-grade"},"modified":"2022-10-06T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:22:21","slug":"tesla-tsla-has-been-upgraded-to-investment-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/tesla-tsla-has-been-upgraded-to-investment-grade","title":{"rendered":"Tesla (TSLA) has been upgraded to investment grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-tsla-has-been-upgraded-to-investment-grade2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla (<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/tsla-tesla-stock\/\">TSLA<\/a>) has been officially upgraded to investment grade long-term credit rating by S&amp;P Global Ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite delivering profits for more than two years straight and building a cash position of over $18 billion while sitting on very little debt, Tesla was still rated as a \u201cjunk bond\u201d by rating companies like S&amp;P Global Ratings and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moody's_Investors_Service\">Moody\u2019s Investors Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/08\/04\/tesla-tsla-blue-chip-out-of-the-junk-bond-dumpster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the rating agencies are finally changing their opinion on the electric automaker<\/a> and considering upgrading their ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla (TSLA) has been officially upgraded to investment grade long-term credit rating by S&amp;P Global Ratings. Despite delivering profits for more than two years straight and building a cash position of over $18 billion while sitting on very little debt, Tesla was still rated as a \u201cjunk bond\u201d by rating companies like S&amp;P Global Ratings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}