Lucid's Former Chief Engineer Sold $4 Million of LCID Stock

Eric Bach, a erstwhile apical worker astatine Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID), sold millions of dollars of Lucid banal successful caller months. Previously, Bach served arsenic elder vice president of merchandise and main technologist for the company.

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An aboriginal February study noted 2 caller banal income by Bach. One transaction totaled $2.8 million, with different totaling astir $1.2 million.

The astir evident crushed for the income would look to beryllium that Bach near the institution past November. No longer an employee, Bach apt isn't arsenic keen connected maintaining ownership. We don't cognize wherefore Bach sold shares, but determination are reasons immoderate shareholder mightiness privation to sell.

Lucid banal has fallen by astir 40% since aboriginal November, erstwhile the institution announced Bach's departure. It's nary astonishment why. Back then, I was arguing that Lucid banal was overvalued.

I deliberation the company's losses volition apt unit it to proceed diluting shareholders. Since going public, Lucid has relied connected stock dilution to stay financially solvent. With nary nett net expected successful 2026, shareholders volition apt proceed to spot their ownership stakes further diluted by further banal sales.

Since its IPO, Lucid has accrued its full shares outstanding by astir 90%. Its banal price, meanwhile, has besides slumped astir 90% implicit that clip period.

Share dilution is an acceptable compromise if a concern is expected to scope profitability. But I would beryllium amazed if Lucid achieves that goal. As competitors Tesla and Rivian person proven, getting an affordable car exemplary to marketplace is captious successful gaining the wide standard indispensable for affirmative nett profits. I simply don't spot a viable way for it to get affordable models to marketplace successful 2026 oregon 2027.

Lucid is years down the contention erstwhile it comes to launching a mass-market model. It adjacent had occupation launching and scaling the income of a low-volume luxury exemplary past year.

Here's the main contented for investors: Lucid has a marketplace headdress of $3.3 billion. Rivian, meanwhile, is valued supra $15 billion, with Tesla's marketplace headdress hovering good supra $1 trillion. Lucid's paltry valuation makes it hard to merchantability capable banal to plug nett losses without massively diluting shareholders.

In 2026, analysts expect Lucid to publication dense losses contempt 80% expected income growth. The institution is inactive apt years distant from profitability. So portion the company's gross whitethorn proceed to climb, Lucid simply doesn't person the superior oregon banal terms indispensable to standard without dense dilution -- capable dilution to much than offset immoderate gains for mean shareholders.