That didn't stop him from raising the value of $TSLA from a penny stock to one of the largest companies in the world.
With his initial investment, and with him as the product architect of the first Tesla vehicle (the Roadster), he transformed an academic project with no products to the world's most valuable automaker.
An automaker so valuable, it's worth more than Toyota, BYD, GM, VW, BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Honda COMBINED.
People have shorted $TSLA before because they underestimated Musk, and let their own personal affectations cloud their understanding of Tesla's potential, and Musk's singular genius.
This doesn't give you the slightest bit of pause?
Poor explanation since ~50% stock is owned by institutions.
I think retail holds 38% of ownership.
Rest of ownership is mostly Elon ~13%.
indexed fund ownership doesn't explain institutional holdings. Tesla is 5% of NASDAQ 100 by market cap. Vanguard owns 7.7%, BlackRock owns 6.4%.
Disclaimer: not a financial analyst and I might have numbers wrong (mostly from Tiger Trading App).
Yes. Wildly overvalued for an automaker that it has never accounted for more than 2% of light vehicles world wide --- and instead of the wild growth projections they sold to investors, sales over the last 2 years have actually declined.
Any "potential" here remains largely unrealized.
... I mean, that's exactly why one might short it, surely? Clearly, this cannot be the case; the valuation makes no sense, and no bubble lasts forever, so one could reasonably expect it to return to reality at some point. Of course, as always the real difficulty is figuring out _when_ that happens ahead of time.
It’s objectively clear that the company is in a bad market condition, and you don’t need to have an “emotional hangup against Elon Musk or government efficiency” to know it’s bad business to alienate your potential customer base and deliver shockingly bad public appearances.
If Ford’s CEO was stumbling-down drunk or higher than a kite at a presser, I’d short Ford too.