Re:Why in the world would you own bonds?
by wavefunction on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:11PM
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In a world where WeWork can be valued at 47B USD by professional capitalists, there's something to be said for acknowledging that the stock market and stock valuations can be untethered to reality. I think the sentiment you mentioned is a combination of that and a bit of a humorous/nihilistic attitude towards the same.
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Re:Why in the world would you own bonds?
by partiallypro on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:16PM
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Valuations simply don't matter right now, Tesla is bigger than every car company combined and makes less than virtually all of them. I don't get it, but that's how it is. There is no end in sight, if there were a moment to burst any bubble it would have been last March...and it didn't.
Re:Why in the world would you own bonds?
by azinman2 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:30PM
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That’s because it’s about future earning potential for “growth stocks”, not current reality. The other car makers have reached a kind of equilibrium, while Tesla keeps putting out new products in a class they essentially invented.
That said, I also don’t own Tesla because I think it’s crazy overvalued.
Re:Why in the world would you own bonds?
by partiallypro on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:21PM
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That's why F/PE exists, even on that basis the current market doesn't make sense and valuation doesn't matter. Frankly, I think when/if SpaceX goes public, Tesla will start going down and people will plow into SpaceX (which IMO has more of a strong future and also what people investing in Tesla now are kind of thinking they have a part of)