So- question-
If TESLA begins to tank today, and ends up being worth, oh, say, 20 times earnings, (like a normal stock)
What would that do to the S&P500 value?
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Tesla becomes the 5th largest weighted company in the S&P 500.
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So- question-
If TESLA begins to tank today, and ends up being worth, oh, say, 20 times earnings, (like a normal stock)
What would that do to the S&P500 value?
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I don't think anyone knows what would happen. For TSLA to go down to 20x earnings, it would take a real collapse.
Depending on how fast it happened there would be ripple effects across the market as trades are unwound. So if it collapsed in a few days due to accounting fraud for example, we'd all feel it. If it went down over the course of time, it may or may not matter.
Sure, that would be the case, but in my mind I keep getting reminded of Amazon from the dot com days. It had an astronomical P/E, yet it refused to go down - other than with the gyrations of the market. What seems expensive today for Tesla, could be a bargain 5 - 10 years from now.
I mentioned before that I recall shorting AMZN at $50 a share, and that was before they started splitting their stock, so it was more like the equivalent of $5 or $10. Today, $3200.
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Wonder if Amazon would have made it if they didn't pull the rabbit out of their hat in 'Amazon Web Services'. That coupled with the tax advantage allowed them to charge super low prices. I remember in 1999 or so ebay was the place to buy stuff from. How things have changed.
WSJ showed a chart that short interest in TSLA is the lowest it's been in over 10 years. Everyone got blown out in the past nine months. The short squeeze has been a major catalyst with over $39B from TSLA short sellers lost this year alone.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/tes...ts-11608460200
Don't mistake luck for skill. Toxic and symptomatic of a society that failed to save during the earnings years and now must take on extraordinary risk to... have more?
Pretty soon we'll be hearing the stories from the thousands it didn't work out for.
Of course, it's all you know who's fault.Mr. Burnworth, a civil engineer in Incline Village, Nev., who is nearing retirement age, is using all of those strategies after turning a roughly $23,000 options gamble on Tesla last year into a nearly $2 million windfall. His growing Tesla stake had enabled him to borrow against his position to convert Tesla options into shares that have soared sevenfold this year. He says he also helped his daughter buy a home and purchased a Tesla sport-utility vehicle for another family member.
“Before, I wasn’t doing particularly well financially. Now, I’m well beyond where I wanted to be for retirement,” said Mr. Burnworth, who added that he also sold his own home and used some of the proceeds to buy more Tesla options.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/investo...rd-11609077600Mary Roberts made her first big investment last year, using some spare cash and a leftover retirement account from a previous job to buy up shares of Tesla. Like Mr. Burnworth, her investment portfolio swelled in value this year as the electric-car maker’s stock ran up, leading her to dabble in options trading for the first time using margin debt.
Ms. Roberts, who is 53 years old and lives in Vancouver, Wash. She and her husband run a chemicals-distribution business that she says has struggled because of Mr. Trump’s trade war with China. Between her investments and her spouse’s, their combined portfolio is now worth seven figures, with two-thirds of that consisting of Tesla stock, Ms. Roberts said.
Those are the stories that really scare the hell out of me. Someone sold their house, so they could dabble in options contracts???
Tesla WILL crash at some point in time. Whether it is next week, next year, or five years from now, it’s gonna happen.
One should make sure they have a place to sleep, before the crash sends them out in the street.
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11.80% for 2012, 24.79% for 2013, -5.13% for 2014 , 4.94% for 2015 WTF?, -0.04% for 2016 , 13.09% for 2017======= 8.23% , Moved to Vanguard in 2018
And the scary thing is that they could eventually be correct. I like Tesla and I like Musk, but the company isn't actually worth what the stock is valued at. I always wonder if people who invest in this TSLA just sort of believe they are as close to getting SpaceX as they ever will.
11.80% for 2012, 24.79% for 2013, -5.13% for 2014 , 4.94% for 2015 WTF?, -0.04% for 2016 , 13.09% for 2017======= 8.23% , Moved to Vanguard in 2018
Oh yeah, I like some of the tweets Musk throws out there, but it's a story stock I don't wish to be involved in. Over valued or fully valued, what's the difference? Under valued? I doubt it.
Big name car dealerships need to take a page out of his book and get rid of this upselling BS when you go to buy a car. Dealers pray you'll take that next tier car for a test drive and then end up going for the lease on the upgraded vehicle over the purchase on the lower or middle tier one. There used to be a company called Saturn (GM). You'd walk in, say I want that one, and that was basically it besides a few minor details.
The WSJ article, I wonder where they find these people. If people are taking risks like that in the market, then they failed to save during the working years, made very poor major financial decisions (house broke), have life long ambitions of just wanting more, or a combination of all three.
Ok, so a few people made some coin, but I doubt they're smart enough to walk away for good. The problem comes when they eventually lose it all again and find themselves unemployable due to age without a pot to **** in. Then, their problem then becomes everyone else's problem.
Tesla hits $800 today and that makes Elon Musk the richest person on the planet, passing Bezos.
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/f300e205...ones-jeff.html
Tom
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Saw someone talking about market caps and made me think.
CSCO had a market cap of $546B in 2000. In 2020 that comes out to $833B.
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https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/...d-to-know.aspxAt its peak in 2000, Cisco stock traded above $79 a share, for a market cap of $546 billion -- surpassing Microsoft as the world's most valuable company and inspiring estimates that it could surpass a $1 trillion valuation.
Tesla's current market cap is $832B.
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