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Rivian Automotive Inc. Class A Common Stock
RIVN NASDAQRivian Automotive Inc. Class A Common Stock is the equity security of Rivian Automotive, a U.S.-based automotive technology company focused on electric vehicles and related software and services. Rivian develops and manufactures consumer EVs through its R1 platform, which includes the R1T pickup truck and the R1S sport utility vehicle, and also serves commercial customers with its Rivian Commercial Vehicle platform. The company’s business extends beyond vehicle production to vertically integrated technologies, including vehicle electrical architecture, software development services, and other mobility-related offerings. Rivian plays a role in the electric-vehicle market by combining hardware, software, and fleet-oriented solutions under one brand, with operations centered on the automotive and software segments. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): -3.07
Total Equity: $4.59B
Shares: 1,186,000,000
Total Debt: $4.53B
Cash: $3.58B
EBITDA: -$2.80B
Total Debt: $4.53B
Cash: $3.58B
Revenue: $5.39B
Shares: 1,186,000,000
Revenue: $5.39B
Revenue: $5.39B
Revenue: $5.39B
Total Equity: $4.59B
Tax Rate: -0.2%
Equity: $4.59B
Total Debt: $4.53B
Cash: $3.58B
Current Liabilities: $3.69B
Long-Term Debt: $4.53B
Total Debt: $4.53B
Total Equity: $4.59B
Shares: 1,186,000,000
Shares: 1,186,000,000
CapEx: -$1.71B
Shares: 1,186,000,000
Stock Price: $15.91
Net Income: -$3.65B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 4, 2026 2:58am (34d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $55.0M | $1.7B | $4.4B | $5.0B | $5.4B |
| Cost of Revenue | $520.0M | $4.8B | $6.5B | $6.2B | $5.2B |
| Gross Profit | -$465.0M | -$3.1B | -$2.0B | -$1.2B | $144.0M |
| Operating Expenses | $3.8B | $3.7B | $3.7B | $3.5B | $3.7B |
| Operating Income | -$4.2B | -$6.9B | -$5.7B | -$4.7B | -$3.6B |
| Net Income | -$4.7B | -$6.8B | -$5.4B | -$4.7B | -$3.6B |
| EBITDA | -$4.0B | -$6.2B | -$4.8B | -$3.7B | -$2.8B |
| EPS | $-22.98 | $-7.40 | $-5.74 | $-4.69 | $-3.07 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $-22.98 | $-7.40 | $-5.74 | $-4.69 | $-3.07 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 4, 2026 2:00am (34d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $18.1B | $11.6B | $7.9B | $5.3B | $3.6B |
| Total Current Assets | $18.6B | $13.1B | $12.3B | $10.6B | $8.6B |
| Total Assets | $22.3B | $17.9B | $16.8B | $15.4B | $14.9B |
| Current Liabilities | $1.3B | $2.4B | $2.5B | $2.3B | $3.7B |
| Long-Term Debt | $1.2B | $1.2B | $4.5B | $4.5B | $4.5B |
| Total Liabilities | $2.8B | $4.1B | $7.6B | $8.8B | $10.3B |
| Total Equity | $19.5B | $13.8B | $9.1B | $6.6B | $4.6B |
| Retained Earnings | -$6.4B | -$13.1B | -$18.6B | -$23.3B | -$27.0B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 4, 2026 3:35am (34d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | -$2.6B | -$5.1B | -$4.9B | -$1.7B | -$779.0M |
| Capital Expenditure | -$1.8B | -$1.4B | -$1.0B | -$1.1B | -$1.7B |
| Free Cash Flow | -$4.4B | -$6.4B | -$5.9B | -$2.9B | -$2.5B |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | $1.2B | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1.3B |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | $15.4B | -$6.3B | -$4.2B | -$2.6B | -$1.7B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Sep 4, 2026 2:58am (34d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +2,914.5% | +167.4% | +12.1% | +8.4% |
| Gross Profit Growth | -571.6% | +35.0% | +40.9% | +112.0% |
| Operating Income Growth | -62.5% | +16.3% | +18.3% | +23.5% |
| Net Income Growth | -44.0% | +19.5% | +12.6% | +23.2% |
| EBITDA Growth | -54.2% | +22.6% | +23.8% | +23.4% |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-10-07 02:03A +1σ run of quarters pays -515%; a −1σ run costs 100%. Ratio -5.2:1 (μ 428.3%, σ 6669.4% floored by longrun, 16 pairs).
Older method (repeat-worst-quarter): -0.7 : 1
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($15.91) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +21% | 17.3% | $4.18 | -74% |
| Base — stabilizes | +14% | 15.0% | $2.11 | -87% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +7% | 12.8% | $0.62 | -96% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | +78% | -55.0% | $0.00 | -100% |
| Upside — a +1σ run of quarters (v2) | +50% | -55.0% | $-66.02 | -515% |
| Stress — a −1σ run of quarters (v2) | -50% | -55.0% | $0.00 | -100% |
Narrative Economics
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-09-04 03:49The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
The raw quarterly trajectory is uglier than the "steady" revenue confidence tag suggests. Revenue went $874M → $1.73B → $1.24B → $1.30B → $1.56B → $1.29B → $1.38B → $1.66B — that's not a growth curve, that's a saw-toothed plateau around $1.3-1.6B for six quarters, with Q4 2024's $1.73B still the high-water mark. TTM revenue is ~$5.9B against $5.39B for FY2025, so year-over-year growth is decelerating to high single digits, not the 40-50% one expects from a "pre-profit growth" archetype. Worse, the net margin trajectory has re-deteriorated: Q2 2026 posted -50% net margin on $1.66B of revenue — an $833M loss, wider than Q1's $416M. The one-quarter gross margin flip to +2.7% in FY2025 looks less like an inflection and more like a regulatory-credit-aided blip; strip those and unit economics are still underwater.
The synthesis "Priced for Perfection" verdict is directionally right but the framing is slightly off. At $23B market cap, EV is roughly $24B (debt $4.53B, cash $3.58B), 4x TTM sales — not egregious for an EV OEM, but the burn math is what kills it. FY2025 FCF was -$2.49B against $3.58B of cash and $4.53B of debt. Absent a capital raise or the VW JV tranches landing on schedule, Rivian has ~14-18 months of runway at current burn before another dilutive raise. With 1.45B shares outstanding and a stock at $15.91, a $3-4B raise at a 15% discount is 15-20% dilution — the bear case's "catastrophic dilution" isn't hypothetical, it's arithmetic. The thesis-evaluation score of -13 understates this; bear weight 85 on R2 economics is correctly sized, but the capital-structure bear (78) deserves closer to 90 given the widening Q2 loss.
Where I'd push back on the model stack: the Pre-Flight note calls this "pricing Rivian as a survivor, not a winner" and the narrative layer calls it a "turnaround-bet" with fragile durability — but 4x sales and 4.1x book is not a survivor multiple, it's still a growth multiple. A true survivor/salvage price would be closer to 1-1.5x sales ($6-9B market cap, or $4-6/share). The contrarian bull case worth taking seriously: R2 at ~$45K with a simplified platform could genuinely halve BOM cost, VW's $5.8B JV commitment de-risks the software/electronics stack and provides non-dilutive capital, and the commercial van business with Amazon plus third-party fleet buyers is a real (if low-margin) annuity. If R2 launches on time in 1H26 and hits even 10% gross margin at 150K units, the stock re-rates violently — this is why shorting here is dangerous despite the fundamentals. But "don't short" is not "buy."
Insider activity is unhelpful — all sales and F-InKind tax withholdings, no open-market buying, and the volumes are trivial relative to float. That's neutral-to-slightly-negative, not neutral. The "Lagging Sector Peers" and "Macro Headwinds" tags matter more than they're being weighted: EV demand growth in the US has decelerated sharply, the $7,500 federal credit is under political threat, and Tesla's price cuts have compressed the entire segment's pricing power. Rivian's Q2 widening loss on higher revenue suggests they're discounting to move R1 inventory ahead of R2 — a bearish tell the models don't flag. I agree with the synthesis verdict directionally but think fair value is lower than implied: a scenario-weighted DCF using 20% R2-success / 50% muddle-through-with-dilution / 30% distressed-recap gets me to $9-11/share, not $15.91. The stock isn't priced for perfection so much as priced for a coin-flip on R2 execution while ignoring near-certain dilution. Wait for either (a) the R2 production ramp print with actual unit gross margin disclosure, or (b) a capitulation event to sub-$10 that resets the risk/reward.
GPT Reading
Rivian’s numbers tell a more specific story than the usual “high-growth EV startup” shorthand: the business is improving operationally, but the equity still capitalizes an outcome that is far from earned. The biggest real positive is that annual gross profit finally turned positive in 2025 at $144 million, versus negative $1.20 billion in 2024 and negative $2.03 billion in 2023. That is not cosmetic; for an automaker, crossing from deeply negative unit economics to even 2.7% gross margin matters. Operating cash burn also improved sharply, with operating cash flow at -$779 million in 2025 against multi-billion operating losses, which suggests some working-capital and production discipline is emerging. Quarterly revenue has also stabilized at a meaningfully higher level than the 2024 trough, with the last four quarters at $1.24 billion, $1.30 billion, $1.56 billion, and $1.29 billion before 2026 opened at $1.38 billion and then $1.66 billion. That is enough to show Rivian is a real manufacturer with real demand, not a science experiment.
But the market cap of $23.0 billion asks you to pay up as if this operational improvement naturally compounds into durable profitability, and the income statement does not support that leap. Revenue grew from $4.97 billion in 2024 to $5.39 billion in 2025, only 8.4%, while net loss was still $3.65 billion and operating loss still $3.59 billion. Even after the gross margin breakthrough, operating margin remained an appalling -66.6% and net margin -67.7%. The quarterly pattern is also not clean enough to underwrite a smooth march upward: net losses swung from -$545 million in 2025 Q1 to -$1.12 billion in Q2, -$1.17 billion in Q3, then improved to -$811 million in Q4; 2026 Q1 got to -$416 million, only to worsen again to -$833 million in Q2. That is not what a business on the cusp of self-funding looks like. On top of that, free cash flow was still -$2.49 billion in 2025, with $1.71 billion of capex. Rivian had $3.58 billion of cash at year-end against $4.53 billion of debt, so the balance sheet is not distressed today, but neither is it roomy enough to absorb many more years of $2 billion-plus FCF deficits without more capital. At 3.5x sales and 4.1x book for a company still destroying equity at a 79% ROE clip, this is not cheap just because the stock once traded much higher.
What stands out to me is that the valuation frameworks calling this “priced for perfection” are directionally right but too dramatic in one sense and not dramatic enough in another. It is not priced for perfection in the Tesla-2020 sense; a $23 billion market cap on $5.4 billion of revenue for an EV OEM with a product and plant footprint is survivable if the next platform works. But it is priced for successful financing and execution at the same time. Investors are effectively assuming Rivian can keep gross margins positive, narrow opex as a percent of sales, fund capex, and avoid ugly dilution before scale economics really kick in. That bundle is demanding. The contradiction in the data is this: gross profit says “credible industrial progress,” while free cash flow and net losses say “equity still sits behind a very expensive proving period.” I do not think the stock should trade like a near-failure, but I also do not think it deserves a premium multiple relative to a business with such thin evidence of earnings power.
The best case against my caution is straightforward and grounded in the same numbers. A company that improved annual gross profit by roughly $1.34 billion in one year and cut operating cash burn to under $800 million may be much closer to inflection than backward-looking margin metrics imply. If 2024 was the production valley, then 2025 may have been the turn, and the first half of 2026 revenue run-rate of about $6.1 billion annualized suggests top-line acceleration could resume. Quarterly net loss of -$416 million in 2026 Q1 also shows that the business can produce materially better periods than the 2025 average. If Rivian can hold revenue around $1.6 billion per quarter and keep gross profit positive while opex normalizes, losses can compress faster than bears expect because the fixed-cost absorption in auto manufacturing is nonlinear. On that view, paying 3.7x EV/revenue for one of the few scaled EV pure-plays is not absurd, especially if investors value optionality around future platforms and commercial vans.
I still weigh it differently because the burden of proof in autos is free cash flow, not narrative slope. Rivian has not yet shown that its improved gross margin survives volume mix shifts, launch costs, or macro pressure, and the 2026 Q2 loss deterioration versus Q1 is a reminder of how fragile the progress remains. I would change my mind if Rivian posts two or three consecutive quarters with gross margin clearly above 10%, quarterly operating losses below $300 million, and annualized free cash burn tracking under $1 billion without a major equity raise. At that point, a $23 billion valuation could look conservative because the financing overhang would shrink and the business would finally have evidence of scalable economics. Conversely, if revenue stalls around $1.3-$1.6 billion per quarter while net losses remain in the $800 million to $1.0 billion range, then today’s price is still too generous and the next capital raise will matter more than the product story.
Grok Reading
The numbers describe a company that has survived the EV winter but has not yet earned a growth multiple. Annual revenue crawled from $4.97B in 2024 to $5.39B in 2025—an 8.4% increase that matches the recent quarterly run-rate and the 10.2% revenue CAGR the models flag. That is not a scaling curve; it is a plateau with noise. The single genuine bright spot is the gross-profit flip: from –$1.20B in 2024 to +$144M in 2025, a 2.7% gross margin after years of deep negative territory. Yet operating loss only improved from –$4.69B to –$3.59B, and free cash flow remained –$2.49B on –$779M of operating cash flow and $1.71B of capex. Cash of $3.58B against $4.53B of debt and nearly 1.0× debt-to-equity leaves a thin cushion; at the current FCF burn the equity story still depends on either a sharp margin inflection or another dilutive raise. Quarterly prints through mid-2026 ($1.38B then $1.66B) show sequential revenue recovery but net margins still stuck between –30% and –50%. At $15.91 and $23B of enterprise value the stock trades at roughly 3.5× sales and 3.7× EV/revenue while ROIC sits at –65% and ROE at –79%. That multiple embeds a clean R2 launch, sustained double-digit volume growth, and a march toward mid-teens gross margins that the trailing data simply do not yet support.
The prior models’ “priced for perfection” and –13 thesis score are directionally right, though the language overstates how much Tesla-like glory is still in the price after a 65% collapse from the IPO peak. What the market is actually paying for is optionality on the R2 platform and the Amazon commercial van relationship, not a finished franchise. Insider activity is noise—tax withholdings and small sales—while FCF quality remains weak and the sector lags. The contradiction worth catching is between the narrative layer’s “turnaround-bet / 90% story” framing and the cold arithmetic: an 8% grower burning $2.5B of FCF does not deserve a growth-stock sales multiple unless the next four quarters deliver both volume and unit-economics proof that 2025’s tiny gross-margin win was the start of a steep climb rather than a one-time mix benefit.
The strongest case against this skeptical read is the gross-margin inflection itself plus the absolute size of the installed base and backlog. Moving from –24% to +2.7% gross margin in one year is rare in auto manufacturing and implies real learning-curve and mix progress on the R1 platform; if that trajectory continues into the teens while R2 arrives at lower cost, the operating-loss line can compress faster than linear models assume. Amazon’s van orders provide a volume floor that pure consumer EV peers lack, and $3.58B of cash plus access to capital markets means insolvency is not the base case—dilution is. A bull can also note that 3.5× sales is no longer the frothy 10×+ of the IPO era and that any credible path to positive FCF would re-rate the equity sharply from a depressed base. I weigh those points as real but insufficient: the capital intensity of launching a second platform, the unproven R2 bill of materials at mass-market price points, and the still-widening gap between gross profit and operating profit keep the probability-weighted outcome below the current $23B valuation.
I would reverse to a constructive stance if the next two reported quarters show gross margin sustainably above 10%, free-cash-flow burn compressed below $300M per quarter, and R2 reservations or early production data that imply breakeven contribution margins at planned volume. Conversely, another capital raise at a discount, a slip in the R2 timeline, or gross margin stalling in the low single digits would confirm the overvaluation and push fair value toward the mid-single-digit share price where asset and backlog optionality alone live.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
The trajectory shows a company still deep in the pre-profit gauntlet. Revenue climbed from $55M (2021) to $5.39B (2025), and gross margin finally crossed into positive territory at 2.7% in 2025 from -24.1% the year prior - a real inflection. But operating margin is still -66.5%, net loss $3.65B, and FCF -$2.49B on the year. Altman Z of -1.23 sits squarely in distress territory, and OCF/NI at 0.56x with accruals at -12.2% of assets says reported losses are not being flattered by accounting - if anything cash burn is worse than the P&L suggests. Balance sheet: $6.08B liquid cash but only $1.55B net of debt, and at ~$2.5B annual FCF burn that is roughly 9.8 quarters of runway. A capital raise inside ~18 months is the base case. That matters because dilution is already extreme: diluted shares went 204M to 1.19B in four years (55% CAGR), with SBC running 13.8% of revenue and zero buyback offset. Per-share value has been systematically eroded even as the underlying business scales. Insider tape is mixed-to-soft: three open-market sales totaling ~$719K over 12 months, no open-market buys, and the rest is tax-withholding on vesting. Not alarming, but no conviction signal either. The gross-margin cross is the one genuine bright spot; everything else - runway, dilution, distress score - points to a business whose survival math is still unresolved.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Whether 2025 gross margin ex-regulatory-credits and ex one-time items is still positive on a unit basis
- Terms and covenants of any outstanding convertibles or debt (impact on effective share count)
- Volkswagen JV funding schedule and milestone conditions - how much non-dilutive capital is committed vs contingent
- R2 platform capex profile and whether it accelerates burn in 2026-2027
- Customer/order backlog concentration and cancellation trends
The e2e synthesis flags Rivian as priced for a transition it lacks the capital, scale, and brand to execute, and the earnings-quality signal is weak (-1 haircut). With a Fragile business grade (score -71), Altman Z in distress, ~$2.5B annual cash burn, and a share count that has ~6x'd in four years, the deserved value on a per-share basis has to be marked well below any headline enterprise math. A $23B market cap on a company still burning cash, gross margin only just crossed to positive, and continued dilution as the base case means today's price already embeds a successful multi-year execution arc.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Q-over-Q gross margin trajectory and whether R2 launch stays on cost/timing
- Cash runway and any incremental capital raise or VW JV milestone payments
- Volume guide vs consensus and unit economics per vehicle
- Any change in Amazon fleet order cadence or pricing
The tape is nominally risk-on (VIX 14, S&P near highs), which should help a beta-1.61 name like RIVN, but that tailwind is being overwhelmed by name-specific pressure. The CFO just announced her exit for Oct 30 and the stock dropped 6.3% intraday on it - a classic confidence-crack event for a turnaround-bet archetype whose narrative durability is already flagged fragile. Coming just two months after a $1.5B dilutive secondary that triggered an 18% sell-off, the market is now primed to read every headline through a 'they'll need more cash' lens.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Permanent CFO announcement and market's reaction to the hire's pedigree
- Q3 delivery numbers vs guide - a miss confirms the CFO-exit fear
- Any follow-on capital raise chatter or credit-line news
- Whether the risk-on regime persists past a week or fades
- Tesla Cybercab reception - a flop could rotate attention back to pure-play EV names
Rivian is growing in a shrinking pond: it is a sub-scale entrant taking absolute share while incumbents' EV programs retrench. The world has turned less friendly — consumer purchase incentives withdrawn, tariff-inflated inputs, a 4.79% 10-year rate on a financed discretionary purchase — so the category's aggregate EV demand is likely flat-to-down even as Rivian's own units rise. That makes the growth firm-specific and product-cycle-dependent rather than tide-borne, which is the higher-quality shape but also the more fragile one: it lives or dies on R2 execution. The offsetting structural change is the industry's move to buy software/electrical architecture rather than build it, which converts Rivian's engineering stack into third-party revenue that does not require selling a single extra vehicle.
When we made this prediction on Sep 4, 2026, RIVN was $15.68. We expect it to be $10.50 by Mar 2027, and we consider it great value under $9.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Sep 4, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.