Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: Quantumscape — Shares of the battery company slid …
Read More »Chinese electric car start-up Nio doubles deliveries as Tesla competition rises
A Nio ES6 electric vehicle is on display at an automotive experience area of Wanda Plaza on Nov. 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s homegrown Tesla rivals are racking up sales in the world’s largest auto market. Electric car start-ups …
Read More »Exxon Mobil, Tribune Publishing, Apple, Tesla & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Exxon Mobil – The energy giant will write down the value of its assets by up to $20 billion for the fourth quarter, mostly related to its natural gas assets. Exxon is, however, seeing a benefit this quarter from higher oil prices …
Read More »Jay Leno reveals what he thinks is the genius behind Elon Musk, Tesla
Jay Leno said he thinks the genius of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk is that “he was building the infrastructure as he was building the vehicle.” “Even today, a lot of the major manufacturers build an electric car, but, oh, where do you charge it?” Leno told the “The News with …
Read More »Tesla jumps 6% in heavy volume ahead of S&P 500 entry, stock then falls a bit in after hours
People wearing face masks are seen inside a Tesla showroom at a shopping mall in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, March 30, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters Shares of Tesla traded more than four times their 30-day average volume on Friday as passive funds …
Read More »Tesla, FedEx, Airbnb, Winnebago & more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — Shares of the electric vehicle company jumped more than 1% to a new all-time high ahead of Tesla’s inclusion in the S&P 500. The stock will be added to the benchmark index before the opening bell on Monday based …
Read More »How much 5% invested in Tesla would’ve earned for index fund investor
The index fund has thoroughly disrupted the role of active stock pickers in the market, but in an era of accelerating disruptive business models across sectors of the economy, stocks like Tesla remind investors that they still need to make some conviction bets to generate above-average returns. Tesla will begin …
Read More »Ford wants some Tesla buzz as electric Mach-E Mustang hits showrooms
The Mustang Mach-E is Ford’s first new all-electric vehicle under an $11 billion investment plan in electrified vehicles through 2022. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – Tesla cars and SUVs are often compared to an iPhone on wheels. Tesla’s four models — the S, 3, X and Y SUV — …
Read More »Tesla, Nio, Airbnb, Disney & more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Snowflake — Shares of the data-warehousing software maker slid 5.2% after Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock a hold rating. “Pent-up demand for high-multiple names, such as Snowflake, may be limited as we wrap up 2020 and investors look to protect their …
Read More »Tesla, Kodak, Lyft, Interactive Brokers & more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, on September 03, 2020 in Gruenheide near Berlin. Odd Andersen | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday on Monday: Tesla — Tesla jumped more …
Read More »Ride the wave in Tesla, trader says after Goldman’s $780 price target
Tesla’s trek higher continues. Shares of the electric-auto maker surged Thursday after Goldman Sachs upped its rating on the stock to buy from neutral, citing accelerating electric vehicle adoption. The firm also raised its price target on the stock to $780, one of the highest on the Street. Tesla’s stock …
Read More »British start-up Arrival has ‘best claim to be the son of Tesla’
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday endorsed CIIG Merger, the U.S. blank-check company set to take U.K. electric-vehicle maker Arrival public next year, as a speculative stock for investors to play. “As much as I like this story, I think you can be patient,” the “Mad Money” host said. “But given …
Read More »Salesforce, Palantir, Zoom, Tesla & more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Palantir — The tech company slid more than 10% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to underweight. The firm said Palantir now trades at a “significant premium” to its peers following shares’ more than 100% jump since the company went public …
Read More »Zoom Video, Nikola, Tesla and more
Zoom Video Communications Inc. founder and CEO Eric Yuan at the company’s IPO at Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, April 18, 2019. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Zoom Video – Shares dropped 15.1% as investors digested signs that …
Read More »The race to be Tesla of electric bikes
The Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle doesn’t have big sales yet, but CEO Jochen Zeitz recently remarked during an earnings call, “It’s also attracting new riders, new customers to the brand that might not have considered Harley-Davidson before.” Source: Harley-Davidson Tesla reached a $500 billion market valuation this week, a sign …
Read More »Tesla, Dollar Tree, Carnival, Best Buy and more
A salesman carries a Best Buy shopping basket in San Francisco, California. Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. American Airlines, United Airlines, Carnival — Airlines and cruise stocks surged on Tuesday as stocks tied to an economic recovery continued to rise after a series of …
Read More »AstraZeneca, Snap, Tesla, Roku & more
Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: AstraZeneca — Shares of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca fell more than 3% after the company said clinical trials showed its coronavirus vaccine has an average efficacy of 70% in preventing the virus. Its competitors Pfizer and Moderna previously said their Covid-19 vaccine …
Read More »Nio, Xpeng, other EV rivals line up to challenge Tesla on home turf
Citron founder Andrew Left, known for some big short calls, recommended Nio shares, now worth $45 each, at $7 two years ago. Now he is short the name and says of the recent gains in multiple EV makers, “The fact is that retail investors take everything to be the next …
Read More »Consumer reports pans Tesla Models S and Y
Brand new Tesla Model S cars sit on front of a Tesla showroom on August 2, 2017 in Corte Madera, California. Tesla will report second-quarter earnings today after the closing bell. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Consumer Reports is no longer recommending Tesla’s Model S and is panning the reliability …
Read More »GM’s last decade has produced paltry returns, but EVs hold hope for Tesla growth
Ten years ago, General Motors made its second debut on the New York Stock Exchange in what was then the largest initial public offering in U.S. history — ushering in a new era of renewed optimism for the company and U.S. economy after emerging from bankruptcy in the Great Recession. …
Read More »Fighting Tesla is like fighting the Fed, trader says after S&P add
Tesla shares are taking off. The electric-auto maker’s stock closed more than 8% higher at $441.61 a share on Tuesday following S&P Dow Jones Indices’ announcement that the cult stock would be added to the S&P 500 index. At a $411.5 billion market cap and a 111-times forward price-to-earnings multiple, Tesla …
Read More »Tesla is joining the S&P 500. What Cramer and five others see ahead
Tesla is officially on track to join the S&P 500. Shares of the electric-auto maker jumped more than 9% in Tuesday trading after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the company would be added to the major market index, a long-awaited move and a triumph for Tesla bulls. Some market watchers …
Read More »Tesla, Walgreens, DraftKings, Square and more
CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk reacts following the company’s initial public offering at the NASDAQ market in New York June 29, 2010 Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — Tesla shares rallied 8.2% after S&P Dow Jones Indices said it would …
Read More »Ford is ‘absolutely’ interested in producing EV batteries like Tesla and GM
Jim Farley in 2017. Luke Macgregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ford Motor is “absolutely” interested in following Tesla and General Motors in producing its own batteries for electric vehicles, new CEO Jim Farley said Friday. The comments are a reversal from Farley’s predecessor, Jim Hackett, who told investors in …
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