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Re:Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake by Wowfunhappy on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:34PM (#27633030)
So I guess “stocks like Tesla” are really just tulip petals? What are people paying for?
Re:Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake by systemvoltage on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:56PM (#27633361)
It's a great question. Future potential, leadership, tech stack, manufacturing capacity, etc. There is a lot of "soft" aspects of running a company and valuation is one of the most difficult/error-prone things to do.

Damodaran's Google talk kind of does a good job describing valuation of high-growth companies (it is deceivingly simple): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5chrxMuBoo