Tesla shares drop: It is generally said that, for being a successful businessman one should continue to improve, improvise and invest. Typically, this is the only way for business to grow. But it looks like Elon Musk is not learning the lesson. His most promising and leading EV company is tottering toward an avoidable collapse. This is happening at a time when Elon Musk is busy coping with twitter issues.
Tesla is facing the steep fall
According to the Economic times report, Tesla shares drop to 11 per cent at $109.10. With this fall, Tesla shares has lost its position in Top 10 highest valued company in S&P 500 Index. The company held the position since its joining in December 2020. Since April, this is the seventh straight decline in Tesla’s share. Consequently, Tesla’s market valuation has reduced to $ 345 billion.
The valuation of Tesla shares fall when there is a distrust among the shareholders and they start disinvestment. The distrust emerges by the unpromising decisions taken by the company. As far as Tesla is concerned, it faced the consecutive setbacks this year along with the US economy.
Why people are losing trust in Tesla
US economy is at the verge of facing recession and inflation. This has led to serious economic implications on American corporations. Companies like Ford, General Motors, Amazon and Apple have witnessed a startling drop in share price this year. Tesla is losing even more. From a record high in November 2021, Tesla shares have fallen 73%. It dropped 69% in 2022 alone.
The latest drop came after The Wall Street Journal report elucidated that Tesla will continue the shut down because of fresh increase in Covid cases in China. Amidst Covid-19 surge in China, Tesla shut down its assembly line operation in Shanghai in March 2022. This resulted in the share drop of Tesla, which is struggling with an inflationary economy.
With an inflation in the economy, the demand of Tesla’s EV is also flagging. The EV manufacturing company is struggling to attract buyers in China and North America. According to Craig Irwin, an analyst at Roth Capital Partners, “Most of the stock’s weakness this year is due to indicators showing flagging demand globally.”
The falling demand has raised concerns after Tesla announced a discount of $7500 on its two highest volume models for the United States consumers.
Apart from the financial and market factors, there are some other sources of people’s distrust. One such cause of distrust is the Musk-Biden feud. While Biden continuously excluded Musk from EV events, he also praised companies like Ford and GM over Tesla.
This happened after Musk said that the US is in the middle of recession and Biden replied by quoting Ford’s increased investment in EV segment. Elon Musk on the other hand called Biden a ‘damp sock puppet’. Apart from that the main cause of people losing trust is Musk’s extra indulgence in Twitter operations.
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Trapped in the Twitter mess
Musk’s interest in twitter has landed him in problems and this has adversely effected Tesla. In April, Musk purchased 9% stakes (73 million shares) in Twitter for $2.6 billion, becoming the single largest shareholder of the company. Soon after the announcement, he disclosed that he sold shares worth $8.5 billion in Tesla. Musk assured that he will not sell further shares of Tesla. Fearing the bot problem on the platform and worried about falling value of twitter shares, he tried to back-off from the deal, but a lawsuit compelled him to buy the company.
Even after he bought Twitter, Musk did not give his full attention to Tesla. He has been busy in building public relations for twitter. Meanwhile, Tesla stocks are getting sold in record numbers. In August, he sold another $6.9 billion worth of shares in Tesla. According to a CNBC report, Musk has sold another 22 million Tesla shares worth $3.9 billion.
With rising tensions of inflation and recession in the US as well as world economy, it is the duty of Musk to sustain the top position of Tesla in the EV segment. But his over indulgence in Twitter and negligence regarding the EV manufacturing company is raising concerns for Tesla.
His continuous disinvestments have demotivated the shareholders to stick with the company. But this situation is not irreversible. This drop can be thwarted with the introduction of a proper business strategy and planning. Musk needs to realise why Tesla became the leader in the electric vehicle segment and what the market aspires from the company.
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