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[-] pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 62 points 2 weeks ago

Too big to fail. Prepare for gov bailouts.

[-] sanzky@beehaw.org 53 points 2 weeks ago

they have only survived so far because hype and government money. they have never been profitable. the stock could halve again and it would still be overvalued

[-] Reil@beehaw.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

It's like 20x too high as it stands going by p/e ratios compared to the rest of the auto industry. Like 5-6x too big compared to tech companies. It's wild.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 weeks ago

That's illegal! TSLA is not allowed to drop. Prepare for your mandatory stock purchase, citizen.

[-] makuus@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

You jest, but I would seriously consider the possibility that he’ll sue anyone selling the stock, and sue the government for not investing in it expressly.

I mean, god, the tantrums he’s thrown at having advertisers take breaks—because I don’t think any of them truly left—from Twitter should be proof enough of the possibility.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 28 points 2 weeks ago

Let’s go for ten weeks! Then twenty!

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago

If your erection lasts for more than 1h, see a medical professional or stop watching the Tesla stock prices

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago

I’m waiting for Musk to have to sell his stock.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

At the end of the day, there are actually better electric cars now for the price. Even starlink is starting to get major market competition for cheaper.

[-] remington@beehaw.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

Even starlink is starting to get major market competition for cheaper.

Please elaborate.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone and their dog wants to gunk up LEO with their soon-to-end-space-flight-forever space junk

[-] Byter@lemmy.one 11 points 2 weeks ago

Objects in LEO fall quickly (months to single-digit years) without station-keeping, mostly from atmospheric drag. Anything we put there wouldn't contribute to a long-term Kessler Syndrome situation. It's geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) we have to worry about, but once you're up that high there's a lot more room for everything.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

One study suggested all that burn up is bad for the ozone letter though

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Also introduces small amounts of bad metals in the air. It's one of the reasons wooden satellites are starting to be sent up.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago

Doo you happen to have a good, informative link? Or perhaps a company name I could look up?

This sounds incredibly cool.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Kessler syndrome is specifically about LEO, and the damage done by debris from collissions, though. Like, that was Kessler's whole thing.

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[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

The stocks are merely at pre-election levels and look like they have now stabilized unfortunately.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

Down 5% today, not super stable. Could have been a dead cat bounce last week.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The instability is great for inside traders eg those who knew about the Whitehouse lawn stunt in advance. That was not a dead cat bounce, it was the stunt.

But the trend since the stunt has been stable enough.

I certainly will be looking at the graph each day rather than reading articles describing it.

Reminds me of how people laugh at the yo-yo tariffs, totally ignoring how insider trader buddies of Trump must love it. Is an overall economic decline going to bother them in comparison?

[-] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

Disclaimer: I'm stock illiterate. Are his other companies also trending down? Or are they not publicly traded or whatever? Is it known what % of his wealth comes from Tesla (vs Starlink or SpaceX)?

[-] jansk@beehaw.org 26 points 2 weeks ago

Most of his other companies are not publicly traded, so there isn't much direct comparison. But Tesla has widely been known to be hugely over-inflated for years and years now, the bubble had to burst sooner or later. It is definitely being hit harder than the rest.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tesla was overinflated because it was run as a software startup, where they had money pouring in from venture capital. They had money coming in, but it wasn't simply from sales. Let's see if that stalls too.

But wasn't his Tesla shares used as collateral for the Twitter financing? If Tesla tanks enough, won't his Saudi banking backers raise hell?

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Aand still +30% from year ago.

Is "Tesla is going bankrupt" then new "Putin has cancer"?

[-] PeteZa@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Trump apparently tried claiming it’s illegal to boycott Tesla. They’re most likely not happy about it lol

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 7 points 2 weeks ago

The entire stock market is likely overvalued by 25% or so. This is a regression to the mean, accelerated by the fact that Musk no longer seems to care whether Tesla is successful or not. Probably because he sucked out all the money via that incentive package the board approved a few months ago.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

The pay was in stock options. It essentially doubled his ownership of Tesla from 12% to 25% so he in fact cares a lot about the price.

The stockholders are definitely morons for agreeing to it. Pay the fashgeld and you never get rid of the fash.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 4 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't know that, thank you! Also apparently a judge has blocked the awarding of the package?

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if Elon is probably going to bail on Tesla after he gets all his SpaceX stock hooked into government contracts and stuff.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Some youtuber was saying as much. A lot of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and a lot of Tesla's valuation is tied up in Musk. But Starlink is making far more than Tesla, he owns a larger portion of it than Tesla, and he's selling Tesla shares. If he makes the right moves he can entirely walk away from Tesla and leave the shareholders holding the bag.

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Good!

[I am now on a list.]

[-] azolus@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume you weren't before.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

We are all on the Verfassungsschutzliste/List of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (lovingly nicknamed Faschistenschutz/Office for the Protection of Fascists)

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[-] unlogic@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

Can it go negative so stock owners have to pay? /s

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 weeks ago

You jest, but futures can actually go negative. At one point during covid a tanker shortage meant you could be paid a few $100 to accept delivery of a barrel of crude. Some people were joking about filling their swimming pools.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

Can't wait for some "buy the dip" dickwads to catch this falling knife

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did tonight, made 700 bucks. Not complaining.

But im not going to hold Tesla. Its going down on next revenue report when people see the sales.

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[-] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Drop that fucker til it's in the ground.

[-] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

To the floor!

[-] mat@linux.community 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it is still overvalued anyway. they havent shown the profitability and growth potential that its current price reflects, not even after plunging as much as it did.

[-] 68silver@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

And yet Musk is fixing NASA's screwup today by rescuing people.

[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 19 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Boeing's screw up. They were the designer/manufacturer of the capsule that had issues. Plus Musk has very little if anything to do with SpaceX engineering or operations (Gwynn Shotwell is in charge of operations). Mostly he just does "Funny" shit like telling engineers to make Starship more pointy.

[-] PeteZa@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, like he’s “fixing” the government?

[-] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

tsla stock price was around $230 when musky used it as collateral for whatever loans he took out for the purchase.

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