Tesla’s Stock Price Trend Is Sort Of Hilarious

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Final Up to date on: 14th March 2025, 02:02 am

Tesla’s inventory worth has by no means been a secure or wise factor for lengthy. It’s been one of many final decade, or at the very least the final 5 years. Nonetheless, as I used to be glancing at it at this time whereas making an attempt to see any noticeable impact from Trump and surrogates’ determined appeals to purchase a Tesla to assist Elon, some issues struck me that I discovered fascinating, even perhaps fairly hilarious.

Going again in the future, the inventory worth is down 3%, and going again 5 days, it’s down 7%. Going again a month, it’s down a whopping 32%. Listed here are a couple of charts displaying these tendencies earlier than I am going additional:

In fact, we’re not wanting again only one month. Sure, it’s fascinating that whereas Donald Trump and Elon Musk have gotten snug within the White Home (Musk’s younger son even wiping his boogers on the Oval Workplace desk in entrance of a disgusted however impotent Trump), Tesla inventory has collapsed 32%. Nonetheless, this is only one portion of the Musk–Trump Tesla inventory part.

If we return 6 months, to nearly two months earlier than the election, you nearly get the image of a mountain. The inventory worth is nearly precisely the place it was 6 months in the past, up simply 6%. The inventory worth rose up the mountain as folks assumed Musk’s affiliation with President Trump would repay in spades, after which it tumbled down the mountain because it turned clear Musk’s affiliation and conduct was crushing the Tesla model amongst many patrons and hurting gross sales (amongst a couple of different issues). Funding for EV charging stations throughout the nation has been pulled. Subsidies for electrical vehicles are anticipated to be eliminated. And Musk spending nearly all his time within the White Home whereas Tesla languishes is, arguably, a significantly better motive to fireside him than he has needed to fireplace anybody within the federal authorities.

Europeans don’t wish to purchase Teslas due to Musk’s Nazi gestures (trolling or not) and assist for fascist, far-right events in Europe. Individuals don’t wish to purchase Teslas due to all of the hurt Musk is doing as the top of DOGE (and the aforementioned Nazi* stuff). And even the Chinese language don’t wish to purchase Teslas as a lot as they used to for different causes I’ll go to quickly, and simply because they’re getting outdated and boring in comparison with what Chinese language EV producers have been introducing. Okay, being extra correct with my language, many Europeans, Individuals, and Chinese language are nonetheless shopping for Teslas, however not as many as two years in the past, or perhaps a 12 months in the past. On the finish of the day, you may bully authorities bureaucrats making an attempt to do good work all you need, however that’s simply not the perfect each day work behavior to promote extra vehicles. One has to marvel if digital work is de facto passable for the CEO of Tesla and whether or not he ought to return to the workplace and clock 40 hours per week really targeted on Tesla issues. Anyway,

So, going again 6 months, Tesla inventory is simply up 6%. Nonetheless, going again one 12 months, it’s up 48%! Except one thing actually adjustments for the higher quickly at Tesla, one does must marvel how lengthy it is going to take the inventory worth to slip again right down to the place it was a 12 months in the past, $162.50. What justifies it being a lot larger at this time than again then?

*Whereas Musk has historical family ties to NazisI wouldn’t say he’s personally a literal Nazi. Nonetheless, his dictatorial, anti-democratic tendencies mixed together with his prejudice towards sure peoples (Central & South American immigrants, some LGBTQ folks, and seemingly Black folks) are eery, nauseating traits. His promotion of fascist events related to neo-Nazis is as effectively. After which there’s the assist for making Canada a US state and outright bullying international locations and any political actors or folks within the media who stand as much as him. Take a look at this general description and inform me there isn’t one thing critical to be anxious about right here.