It’s funny, now the mainstream argument against Tesla is that they aren’t growing capex so they are not a growth company and so Tesla way over valued and the stock is set to drop, etc...
Tesla seems to be attacked no matter how the business develops.
What this is an indicator of is a broad attack, a war posture on the company as a threat to vested interests. It is actually a destroy and take over, since the company is extremely valuable just not under Elon and friends ownership.
In such an environment, there is actually nothing the “financial news” prints/broadcasts that isn’t directed toward this aim.
We must thus take note of how this “financial news” monopoly angles its argument to achieve the objective.
Media talking points:
“Changing out the board” (which would put anti musk and friends in positions of power to disrupt control and direction)
“Musk is unfit to serve as ceo or board. He’s crazy, he’s not healthy, he’s unstable, he’s a twitter risk, he smoked pot.” (again, take control away)
“Can’t pay off debt, must raise capital” (big capital will constrain Tesla further through harsh contractual cost)
“Can’t grow without outside capital, established ice competition will outpace in Evs. Tesla killers are here.” (again, set up for stock to fall, force poor conditions for Tesla to ask for money from Wall Street)
“Drastic stock drops means Tesla in trouble” (manipulation of daily trade, to keep retail investors away as well as institutions away who only read mainstream financial news headlines and are scared away)
“Anyone leaving Tesla means the company is in trouble” ( scare away investors, make stock go down, make capital raises hard to get on favorable conditions)
“Tesla fires, autopilot fatalities, no demand, unsustainable sales, Tesla peaked sales” (all meant to drop the stock, make it hard to raise capital on favorable conditions, take control away from elon&crew)
Even positive headlines create clicks on degrading/negative content. (Such as headline saying Tesla has moat around supercharging, but taking about how tesla faces “Tesla killing” competition, executives leaving, and anything Elon has ever said twitter).
The truth is that most of the core buyers/stock owners have followed Elon since the beginning and know he’s been true to the mission of Tesla from day one.
We also can research ourselves and see all the content of Elon and Tesla directly.
The mainstream finacial news cartel doesn’t understand that they are 10 years too late. The base has been established and word of mouth and actual customer satisfaction is beyond the critical mass point. They don’t have the trustability power to slow the momentum now. Even with Tesla stores being illegal in some states, people are willing to drive hours to buy and still make the model 3 the biggest car by revenue in sales and in just 1 full year on the market.
No matter how many analyst pound their fists on CNBC desks or how many negative headlines continuously scrolling on the Apple stock app, this electric hyperloop will not be stopped.
And they know it too. Desperation only makes it worse.
