What happened Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 earnings tomorrow after the bell, and the stock is down in advance of that. At 10:06 a.m. ET, Tesla shares were 1.75% lower after having dropped nearly 3% to start Tuesday's market session. So what To be clear, today's drop isn't likely due to investor worry about tomorrow's earnings. In fact, Tesla, like many other technology names in the Nasdaq Composite index, has been moving lower all month. After having hit the $1.2 trillion market cap threshold, Tesla shares are down almost 25% since Jan. 3, 2022. TSLA data by YCharts But with a valuation still topping $900 billion, investors will want to hear good things from the company tomorrow evening. Tesla reported about $3.2 billion of net income in the first nine months of 2021, and in its full-year report, it will very likely let investors know it surpassed revenue of $50 billion for the year. Image source: Tesla. Now what For the company to hit that revenue level, it will only need to match its third-quarter results. Since the company has already informed investors that it delivered 28% more vehicles in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter, results are likely to increase sequentially. But with the valuation as high as it is, investors will want to look forward, not back. Investors will want to hear about progress toward initial production from new gigafactories in Texas and Germany. If any setback is reported, it wouldn't be surprising to see Tesla shares continue to drop in the near term. 10 stocks we like better than TeslaWhen our award-winning analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.* They just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Tesla wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of January 10, 2022 Howard Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns and recommends Tesla. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.Source