Yesterday, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA) and Chairman of SolarCity (SCTY) Elon Musk laid out his plans to bring humans to Mars in the next decade and to eventually colonize the red planet. Here is …
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We seem to be in the midst of a bubble in financial and tech media coverage of autonomous and electric cars. It makes sense when you consider the last great personal technology innovation, mobile devices, …
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Wall Street has a habit of grouping stocks into sectors. For example, almost every trading day we hear market participants refer to sector performance in areas like semiconductors, retail, energy, banks, etc. This keeps things …
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Event: Tesla (TSLA) reports Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 7% one day post earnings move, which is just shy of its 4 qtr average one day post …
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In a bad news dump over the holiday weekend, Tesla announced Q2 car deliveries that came in below their prior guidance. But, there are a couple of big buts. From the press release: With continued …
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Shares of Tesla (TSLA) have had a fairly volatile year, at its lows in February down 40%, at its highs in April up 90% from those prior lows. So far this year, investors concerns have …
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Sometimes the shorts get it right. Take SolarCity (SCTY). With 38% short interest, a relatively small float, 64 million shares of the 98 million outstanding (where their Chairman Elon Musk owns 21 million of those …
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Earlier, Dan previewed Tesla’s Q1 earnings due after the bell. Now we want to look at a couple of strategies in the options that may make sense for those long the stock or thinking about …
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Let me start by saying in the long run, I suspect it will be a costly strategy trying to make money betting against Elon Musk. But, Musk had a fairly noisy year in the three companies he is a large …
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Not all Solar companies are created equal, those like SunEdison (SUNE) who have, and FirstSolar (FSLR) and Sunpower (SPWR) who have recently announced plans for a Yieldcos* (read our discussion here and below) have dramatically outperformed those …
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