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Tesla, Inc.
$365.611d +1.6%5d +0.6%settled close · 2026-09-17
Mkt cap $1.35T (4/10)β 2.1452w $297–490Shares 3.75BInd. Motor Vehicles & Passenger Car BodiesNasdaq since 2010Emp. 134,785HQ Austin, TXtesla.com
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34 long1 neutral33 shortlatest 2026-08-10
| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Switzer Report | Tesla's robotaxi platform will account for 90% of its value in five years, and even halving ARK's robo-taxi… |
| 2026-07-27 | Thomas Hayes | Bearish | Fox Varney & Co | Tesla has lost its core auto business in China to domestic competitors, humanoid robots are unproven, and at… |
| 2026-07-24 | Ron BaronFounder & CEO, Baron Capital Management | Bullish | The Compound | Tesla's mission is renewable energy transformation not just EVs, and its vertical integration gives it a… |
| 2026-07-24 | Michael BaronCo-President & Portfolio Manager, Baron Capital | Bullish | The Compound | Tesla's competitive advantage is shifting from EVs (now contested by China) to humanoid robots where Optimus… |
| 2026-07-22 | Scott GallowayNYU Stern professor & podcast host | Bearish | Prof G Pod (Galloway) | Tesla's valuation was engineered beyond fundamentals via meme/cult dynamics and Goldman/JPM-backed IPO… |
| 2026-07-02 | Gene MunsterManaging Partner, Deepwater Asset Mgmt | Bullish | CNBC Television | A two-year EV winter has built pent-up demand that is now releasing, and even normalizing for gas-price… |
| 2026-06-29 | Andrew KangCEO, RoboStrategy | Bullish | The Compound | Tesla's planned 10-million-unit-per-year humanoid manufacturing facility gives it a dominant first-mover… |
| 2026-06-12 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | Bloomberg Television | Tesla's valuation is driven by speculative Elon premium (Optimus robots, autonomous driving) rather than… |
| 2026-06-11 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | iConnections | Tesla trades at ~14x revenue solely on CEO-premium and unfulfilled promises (robotics, FSD); strip those out… |
| 2026-05-22 | Patrick BoyleFinance professor; ex-hedge fund manager | Bearish | interview | SpaceX used $131M of shareholder funds to buy Cybertrucks at full retail with no volume discount… |
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-19 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | TorontoWealthGroup | Tesla trades at ~300x earnings while its core auto business has been declining since 2022, with the bull case… |
| 2026-05-06 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Bloomberg Podcasts | Tesla's vertical integration gives it the lowest cost structure in robo-taxi (~25 cents/mile vs Waymo's ~50%… |
| 2026-03-17 | Julian Robins | Bearish | Terry Smith | Tesla's average ROCE is negative over the measurement period with only one profitable year as an exception… |
| 2026-03-02 | Howard MarksCo-chairman, Oaktree Capital | Bearish | Pepperdine University | Tesla trades at a much higher multiple than its Magnificent 7 peers while generating comparatively little… |
| 2026-02-27 | Aswath DamodaranProfessor of finance, NYU Stern | Bearish | Meb Faber | Tesla became a political investment where car purchase decisions are driven by political affiliation rather… |
| 2026-02-06 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | RiskReversal Media | Tesla's core EV business is in structural decline due to Chinese competition, while future narratives around… |
| 2026-01-26 | Eddie Ghabour | Bullish | Fox Varney & Co | After months of consolidation, Tesla's robo-taxi announcement and accelerating European expansion are… |
| 2026-01-23 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | ARK Invest | Tesla's robotaxi cost structure is now estimated at 50% lower than Waymo's, giving it a decisive competitive… |
| 2026-01-16 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | CNBC Television | Tesla is transitioning from low-margin EV hardware (~15% gross margins) to a high-margin SaaS-like robotaxi… |
| 2025-12-20 | Patrick BoyleFinance professor; ex-hedge fund manager | Bearish | interview | Tesla's core car business is shrinking with two consecutive years of declining sales and the 20M-unit-by-2030… |
| 2025-12-16 | Dan IvesTech analyst, Wedbush Securities | Bullish | Mohamed El-Erian | Tesla's autonomous robo-taxi rollout across 30 cities and volume production of Cybercabs from Gigafactory… |
| 2025-12-04 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Money Maze Podcast | Tesla is transitioning beyond EVs to robo taxis and humanoid robots, generating super-exponential growth as… |
| 2025-11-29 | Bill AckmanCEO, Pershing Square | Bearish | Unreleased Podcast | Tesla trades at 200x earnings with valuations entirely dependent on highly uncertain robotics, autonomous… |
| 2025-11-06 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | CNBC Television | Tesla's robotaxi launch and potential humanoid robot scaling, led by Musk's vision, can deliver 41% compound… |
| 2025-10-27 | Jim Cramer (CNBC)Host, CNBC's Mad Money | Bullish | The Compound | Elon Musk has successfully shifted Tesla's narrative from auto sales to robotics, autonomous driving, and… |
| 2025-10-24 | Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder, Social Capital | Bullish | All-In Podcast | AI5 chip (40x improvement over AI4, eliminates discrete GPU and ISP) combined with energy business at… |
| 2025-10-22 | Barb | Bearish | CNBC Closing Bell Overtime | Tesla trades at 250+ forward PE on unproven robo taxi/AI/robot thesis Barb does not believe in, while 80% of… |
| 2025-10-14 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | All-In Podcast | Convergence of robotics, energy storage, and AI across both the robo-taxi and humanoid-robot platforms… |
| 2025-09-21 | Cliff AsnessCo-founder/CIO, AQR Capital | Bearish | interview | Tesla's valuation reflects cultish mob sentiment and social-media reinforcement loops more than fundamentals… |
| 2025-08-10 | Patrick BoyleFinance professor; ex-hedge fund manager | Bearish | interview | Tesla trades at ~95x forward earnings purely on Musk's robo-taxi/AI narrative while global deliveries are in… |
| 2025-07-28 | Adam JohnsonFounder & Portfolio Manager, Bullseye Investment Group | Bullish | Wealthion | Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot at 1 million units per year by 2028 at $30K gross profit per unit generates… |
| 2025-07-18 | Jc ParetsFounder & Chief Market Strategist, All Star Charts | Bullish | The Compound | Extreme sentiment negativity around Elon Musk from both political sides, high short interest in ARK (which… |
| 2025-07-11 | Andy SchwartzCo-Founder & Managing Partner, Bleakley Financial Group | Neutral | Wealthion | Elon Musk's political distractions and brand damage introduce unpredictable risk to Tesla's business even… |
| 2025-07-10 | Marc FaberEditor, Gloom Boom & Doom Report | Bearish | Wealthion | Tesla's valuation is in bubble territory relative to other auto manufacturers — it makes a product with… |
| 2025-07-04 | Shay BoloorChief Market Strategist, Futurum Equities Research | Bullish | The Compound | Tesla is the only player building a general-purpose AI network for physical robotics and mobility autonomy —… |
| 2025-06-26 | David WooIndependent macro strategist (ex-BofA) | Bearish | Wealthion | Tesla is priced as a robo-taxi and robotics winner but five Chinese companies already have deployed… |
| 2025-06-24 | Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder, Social Capital | Bullish | All-In Podcast | Tesla has the best vision models, gains XAI LLM/reasoning capability, can run on Dojo, and sits at the center… |
| 2025-06-24 | David FriedbergCEO, Ohalo; co-host, All-In | Bullish | All-In Podcast | Tesla is the best-positioned company on Earth for the humanoid robotics opportunity — a low-probability… |
| 2025-06-21 | Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder, Social Capital | Bullish | All-In Podcast | Tesla is building the most complete vertically integrated AI stack — best vision models, XAI LLMs, Dojo… |
| 2025-06-21 | David FriedbergCEO, Ohalo; co-host, All-In | Bullish | All-In Podcast | Tesla is uniquely positioned to capture the humanoid robotics opportunity — a low-probability but… |
| 2025-06-13 | Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder, Social Capital | Bullish | All-In Podcast | After auditing Tesla's Dojo and Optimus teams in person, the scale of execution and quality of talent Musk… |
| 2025-06-05 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | Forbes | Tesla remains a short position consistent with Chanos's long-standing thesis, with recent price action… |
| 2025-06-05 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Chris Davis | Tesla is the largest AI project on Earth, with the robotaxi platform alone (estimated $8-10T global revenue… |
| 2025-03-26 | Le ShrubCIO, family office (Monaco) | Bearish | Forward Guidance | European pension funds will be forced to sell Tesla as Elon Musk's political positioning makes it ESG-toxic… |
| 2025-03-07 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | The Compound | Tesla's competitive position is actually strengthening despite the selloff, and its robotics leadership gives… |
| 2024-04-05 | Rob ArnottFounder & chairman, Research Affiliates | Bearish | Research Affiliates | Kathy Wood's $3,000 Tesla target requires 89% annual growth for five years — a 25x expansion in half the time… |
| 2024-02-04 | Brett Winton | Bullish | Cathie Wood | Tesla's robotaxi platform is a 'when not if' outcome that can scale rapidly on its existing vehicle… |
| 2023-08-16 | Mohnish PabraiFund manager — Pabrai Investment Funds | Bullish | Meb Faber | Bill Gates has a well-known short position in Tesla, which Pabrai referenced without disagreement, though… |
| 2023-08-05 | Patrick BoyleFinance professor; ex-hedge fund manager | Bearish | interview | Tesla, a manufacturing company, trades at ~10x revenues — the same extreme multiple as Sun Microsystems at… |
| 2023-05-03 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Bearish | The Meb Faber Show | Tesla routinely produces material misstatements and deceptions that are explained away by investors during… |
| 2023-01-31 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | Jeremy Lefebvre Makes Money | Tesla's gross margins are declining from high 20s to high teens as the EV price war intensifies, competition… |
| 2023-01-31 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | CNBC Television | Tesla's gross margins are collapsing from high-20s toward high-teens as price wars intensify, China—where… |
| 2023-01-05 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Savvy Finance | ARK bought 176,000+ Tesla shares after a 12% plunge on missed delivery estimates, reaffirming conviction… |
| 2022-12-31 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | FINANCE INSIDER | Tesla is a high-conviction holding being added to during the downturn because electric vehicles and… |
| 2022-09-11 | Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder, Social Capital | Bullish | Sohn Investment Conference | Tesla is driving a transformational shift in energy and addressing climate change, and despite a slower start… |
| 2022-02-24 | Chris Cole (Artemis)Founder & CIO, Artemis Capital Management | Bearish | Chris Cole | Tesla's market cap exceeds the combined value of all other automakers despite having a fraction of their… |
| 2021-07-21 | Chris BloomstranPresident & CIO, Semper Augustus Investments | Short | Planet MicroCap | ARK's $3,000 price target implies a ~$3T market cap on a company doing $31B in revenue, resting on robo-taxi… |
| 2021-04-23 | Cem KarsanFounder & CIO, Kai Volatility Advisors | Bearish | Mutiny Funds | Dealers who accumulated long TSLA stock as a delta hedge against massive short-call exposure must… |
| 2021-02-18 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Disruptive Innovations | Autonomous taxi is a winner-take-most market and Tesla's aggressive investment posture makes it the… |
| 2020-12-18 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Bloomberg Television | Tesla remains a viable long-term holding capable of contributing significant portfolio returns, though… |
| 2020-10-19 | Rob ArnottFounder & chairman, Research Affiliates | Bearish | The Meb Faber Show | Tesla's valuation requires heroic future cash flows that have failed to materialize for seven years despite… |
| 2020-04-02 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | CNBC Television | Tesla is a car company that will lose money again this year; analysts are making dramatic 2021 EPS cuts… |
| 2020-03-12 | Chris Cole (Artemis)Founder & CIO, Artemis Capital Management | Bearish | Chris Cole | Tesla's price action is unjustifiable on fundamentals and its vol term structure is dramatically steeper than… |
| 2020-02-14 | Mike NovogratzFounder/CEO, Galaxy Digital | Bearish | CNBC Television | Tesla's parabolic retail-FOMO-driven surge — punctuated by monster volume spikes and 'should I buy Tesla'… |
| 2019-09-30 | Josh WolfeCo-founder, Lux Capital | Short | Real Vision Presents | Tesla's valuations are, in Wolfe's view, insane, and the company faces a potential liquidity crunch that… |
| 2019-02-28 | Cathie WoodCEO & CIO, ARK Invest | Bullish | Anthony Pompliano | Tesla is 3+ years ahead of any auto rival via its lowest-cost cylindrical battery tech, proprietary AI chip… |
| 2018-10-31 | Marc LasryCEO, Avenue Capital Group | Bullish | Bloomberg Television | Tesla's $40B+ equity cushion makes its 90-day trade receivables essentially risk-free, but irrational market… |
| 2018-02-07 | Jim ChanosShort seller — Chanos & Co (family office) | Short | Simply explained | Tesla is a capital-intensive auto OEM that loses money even on $100K vehicles, relies on continuous dilutive… |
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Notable options days
Sessions in the last 120 where TSLA’s settled options volume ran ≥ 2× its trailing 20-session baseline, or delta-dollar flow ran ≥ 2.5× — 3 of 120 sessions qualified.
The qualifying dates are the free record. Close, flow, call/LEAPS mix and the 20-session outcome — for every session below — are Brief subscriber content.
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