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Re:Tesla’s ‘Anemic’ High-Margin Model Sales Extends Profit S... by ajross on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:25PM (#20511943)
> They act as though Tesla is the only company in the world that has stock fluctuations,

No, but the only one with a cap this big. Sure, there are tiny companies with crazy stuff happening. You have another example of another company with a two-digit billion dollar market valuation that sees anything remotely like this kind of volatility?

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Re:Tesla’s ‘Anemic’ High-Margin Model Sales Extends Profit S... by graeme on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:33PM (#20511979)
Some of these are pretty volatile: https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/5A570E78-23CD-11E...

Tesla is also unusual in having an extremely large P/E compared to the typical S and P 500 company. That means it's being valued on future expectations, not present realities. Expectations of the future can swing much more wildly than those for present based businesses.

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