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Car company’s shares dropped by 14.2% and its billionaire CEO’s net worth reduced by $8.73bn

Tesla’s shares dropped by about 14.2% on Thursday at market close, wiping roughly $152bn off the value of the company as a feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump erupted into public view. The former political allies traded threats and insults through posts on their respective social media platforms throughout the afternoon as the company’s price fell.

The decline in Tesla’s share price on Thursday knocked about $8.73bn off Musk’s total net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The reported $152bn drop also decreased the value of the company to roughly $900bn.

Tesla has struggled throughout the year amid declining sales and buyers around the world rejecting the automaker due to Musk’s association with far-right politics. Stock traders who had shorted Tesla shares made billions amid the spat, per the Wall Street Journal.

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[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was lower in April and March. The stock had been oscillating wildly between $375 and $225 all year and has no relation to any of the actual finances of the company. Considering that the budget bill under consideration could remove the clean energy credits that keep the company in the black, the stock should be much lower.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

actual finances of the company

never has, never will.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Maybe someday. 🤞🏾And then Phoney Stark won’t have to worry about whether we’re taxing billionaires enough 🙏🏾

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

At a point where all of their life time sales make up half of what the Musk payout was? Yeah, it's just irrelevant.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just that, they need Chinese rare earth minerals...

Like, Musk just spent 15 billion on a factory for batteries that he now can't afford the raw materials for.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow. So he was just too geeked out on K to complain about all the tariff drama the last few months? I thought Xi said they may just straight up stop selling some of that stuff to us? Not sure if it was rare earth minerals or some other rare substance that’s needed for military applications. Elon and Trump are some real fucking geniuses. 🙄

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's all the same shit.

But especially for EV batteries, the tarrifs make the raw materials so expensive a lot of companies are looking to offshore their manufacturing because if they're made somewhere else, only Americans pay the tarrifs on completed vehicles.

If the raw materials face a 150% tarrif, then even if theyre sold in Canada or Mexico, the tarrifs drive up prices and lowers sales.