Musk Files SEC “STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP” (SolarCity)

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Via StreetInsider, Musk has filed a “Change in Beneficial Ownership” form as of Mar. 2.  What does it mean?  Ask your broker friend.  We have no idea.  There’s a little hint here though: Be sure to click on the images if you want to see them bigger. “Beneficial Ownership” generally refers to the administrator of a Trust, as far as we understand it, where the Beneficial...

Tesla Q4 2014 Financial Results Q&A ConCall

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Here’s the complete transcript from the mid-Feb. Tesla conference call, with Musk, Jeff Evanson, VP Investor Relations, JB Straubel, CTO and Deepak Ahuja, Tesla’s CFO. Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Andrea James with Dougherty & Company. Your line is open. Andrea James Hi, thanks for taking my questions and congratulations on...

Wall St Responds to Musk Detroit Comments, Drops 9% Overnight

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TSLA dropped to $185.60 in pre-market trading on Wed. after Musk’s hour long Q/A session in Detroit last night, and rebounded to $190 at the opening bell. Speculation is that comments about the China market and Tesla’s profitability were to blame.  One analysis, via International Business Times: “I expect we’ll achieve profitability in 2020,” Musk said Tuesday at the Automotive...

Has Musk Been Muzzled?

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Tesla Chief Information Officer, Jay Vijayan and a Muzzled Musk?  Or a new angle? Usually, we hear announcements and such about Musk-related activities from, well, Musk.  The announcement for the price target for the Model 3 came from Tesla Chief Information Officer, Jay Vijayan. (That target is $30,000 To $40,000, if you’re interested.)  See this story on InsideEVs. Is Musk being deliberately...

Musk Loses a Billion in Weeks

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Profile via Forbes’ Powerful People Thought you were having a tough couple of weeks?  Marketwatch reports that, by their calculations, Musk is worth about a billion less than he was a few weeks ago. Musk owns more than 28 million shares of Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -3.05% the electric-car maker he leads, and nearly 21 million shares of rooftop solar installer SolarCity Corp. SCTY, +0.26% where...

Elon Musk and TSLA Gonna Get Stuck? USA Today “Chart of the Day”

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USA Today “Chart of the Day” Well, this bit of investment advice is worth every dime you paid for it: Tesla shares have taken a beating over the last three months, and it coincides with U.S. automakers’ posting better-than-expected SUV sales. With oil getting hit and gas prices falling, electric car maker Tesla has had a tough three months. Newslook This little bit of ADD investment...

You can own an autographed photo of Elon Musk with Barack Obama

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The gold leaf walls of our palatial Where’s Elon headquarters are covered, top to bottom, with posters of Elon Musk. Such is our admiration. Not on display here, are photographs autographed by the man, since that would be gauche. There’s no accounting for taste however, so if you are into that sort of thing, it behooves us to inform you that such an item can be had. A this very moment,...

Daily Kanban calls Musk a Big Fat Liar

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Elon Musk said he has no interest in releasing monthly Tesla sales figures. Why? Because “media tends to read all sorts of nonsense into the deliveries.” Well, apparently some in the media will read all sorts of nonsense into his decision to stick with quarterly figures. The Daily Kanban has published a piece in which in it compares worldwide Model S registrations collated by JATO –...

Musk’s Stock Battles Continue, Much Ado About Something?

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“Taking a hit”? In a story in ValueWalk, author Mark Melin claims: “Tesla Motors Inc Taking A Hit In London and With Long Time Bull“. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), the stock people love and love to hate on, is currently in the hate phase of its relationship with certain hedge funds and stock analysts. Speaking in London, famed short seller Jim Chanos added his name to the...

Musk Wants X “Right”, Fool Says “Think Long Term”

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On a story dated November 18 appearing in NASDAQ, originally on The Motley Fool, Musk is quoted as saying: “We prefer to forgo revenue, rather than bring a product to market that does not delight customers,” said Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, in the Q3 shareholders letter. “I do think the X is going to be something quite special. But it is hard to engineer and hard to...