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The consequent Trump Bump came and left. Along the way, no American stock was more powerful than Tesla. At one point in December, the car manufacturer of Elon Musk received $ 733 billion market capitalization from US elections, more than any other company in the S&P 500. His 54 percent drop since then is the biggest fall among the members of the Index. Musk is the reason, in both directions.
Even before Donald Trump won the presidential voice and hired the richest man in the world because his efficiency Tsar, Tesla – then worth about $ 800 billion – was more like a moon than a car manufacturer. The company traded about 80 times the expected earnings for 2025, putting it in the first 3 percent of companies enrolled in the US worth more than $ 1 billion, according to IQ capital. At that time, there was a multiple number of prices to make money.
Even the most widespread car estimates did not justify it. Before the election, Lex calculated it Tesla’s car job was worth about $ 240 billionbased on a generous assessment of 6mn vehicles by 2030. The remaining $ 560 billion or so it looked like a sharp cocktail of hope on future projects, from taxi driving self-giving to humanoid robots.
Whatever Trump A pledge to buy a brand new Tesla, Some things now look worse than in November. The sale fell to Europe; Tesla faced protests and vandalism. Production in China, a huge market, collapsed. And while Musk claims that the death of the Loan is EV’s USA is used by Tesla by harming its competitors, it remains an unverified theory.
But remember: Tesla is not appreciated like a car, which means that the fall is in its estimation – including a vicious drop of 15 percent on Monday – just unclear about cars. Instead, a huge gain of the company from the choice and subsequent fall reflects the variable views of investors to the credibility of its different moons.
On that front, the men’s value for Tesla probably went from overrated to overturning. After all, the likelihood that Tesla will eventually transform the world of autonomous mobility has probably not moved much. True, Musk has less time for Tesla these days, but his plate was accumulated with other pursuits long before he threw himself into the White House.
As for the humanoid robots, they remain likely – or not – as always. Musk said that the descendants of his prototype droid optimus could be “the largest product of any kind.” Maybe it’s, but the future will undoubtedly be robotic. The Bank of America analysts have just doubled their estimate of the global consignments of Humanoids, at 10 mn to 2035.
The problem is that as many Tesla’s mayor promises, the less convincing is – especially when technological estimates of sliding. For example, Musk told analysts as in January that his car manufacturer can be worth more than Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon and Apcebeth, which is currently equivalent to 13tn USD. From Monday, it was only 5 percent of times there. Hype briefly took Tesla at $ 1.5; Only credibility will bring him back there.
