{"id":37134,"date":"2022-11-29T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37134"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:46:37","slug":"tesla-tsla-investors-negative-impact-elon-musk-twitter-antics-lasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37134","title":{"rendered":"Tesla (TSLA) investors see negative impact of Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter antics lasting on them"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=2000&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/tesla-hero-tsla-1.jpg?w=2500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 2500w\" width=\"1600\" height=\"860\" alt=\"Tesla (TSLA)\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Tesla (TSLA) investors see the negative impact of Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter acquisition lasting on the company going forward.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-268748\"\/><ins class=\"adsbygoogle author_ad ad-container adsbygoogle author_ad hide-lg author-in-content\" data-ad-host=\"ca-host-pub-5506057612223327\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4655152367470280\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter had a direct negative impact on Tesla and its investors, considering that the CEO had to sell billions of dollars worth of Tesla (TSLA) stocks to finance the $44 billion acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of those millions of stocks <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/11\/08\/elon-musk-sells-billion-worth-tesla-tsla-twitter-dumpster-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly contributed to a sharp decline in Tesla\u2019s stock price<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a less tangible impact on Tesla and that\u2019s the perception of Elon Musk changing through his antics on Twitter. Many people have reported losing faith in Musk\u2019s leadership after he made statements like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/30\/business\/musk-tweet-pelosi-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sharing fringe conspiracy theories<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/08\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asking his followers to vote republican on Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing conspiracy theories and urging people to vote for a specific party are things that you generally don\u2019t see from the CEO of major companies.<\/p>\n<p>Now Morgan Stanley has surveyed its own clients who are Tesla investors to understand how they see the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note to clients today:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Our investor survey reinforces our views that Elon Musk\u2019s recent involvement with Twitter has contributed to negative sentiment momentum in Tesla shares and could drive some degree of adverse downside skew to Tesla fundamentals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, a strong majority of Tesla investors in the survey believed that the impact will keep being negative going forward:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-29-at-11.28.42-AM.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268757\" width=\"569\" height=\"339\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>However, Morgan Stanley maintains a positive outlook on Tesla\u2019s stock as they believe there are significant upsides based on the current valuation:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>Tesla is the only self-funding pure play EV name we cover and has achieved a unique position to secure supply of the battery metals and related up-stream supply necessary to produce EVs at multi-million-unit scale. In a slowing economic environment, we believe Tesla\u2019s \u2018gap to competition\u2019 can potentially widen, particularly as EV prices pivot from inflationary to deflationary. The current price offers approximately 80% potential upside to our $330 price target which is the highest upside to target we have seen from Tesla in over 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s (TSLA) stock is slightly up 0.3% this morning \u2013 trading at around $183 a share.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Do you feel like Musk\u2019s Twitter antics are going to continue having a negative impact on Tesla going forward? 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There\u2019s no doubt that Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter had a direct negative impact on Tesla and its investors, considering that the CEO had to sell billions of dollars worth of Tesla (TSLA) stocks to finance the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}