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    Tesla is now worth more than $1 trillion

    By Chris Isidore, CNN Business

    October 26, 2021

    New York (CNN Business)Tesla just became the sixth company in US history to be worth $1 trillion.

    Shares popped more than 12% Monday to close at about $1,025, boosted by two spots of good news: Hertz announced a record order of 100,000 Teslas for its fleet, and influential Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas recently raised his price target on Tesla to $1,200 a share.

    That hefty one-day gain put Tesla (TSLA) just over the $1 trillion mark. That market capitalization is less than half that of Apple (AAPL), the most valuable company in the world at $2.5 trillion, and No. 2 Microsoft (MSFT), which is worth $2.3 trillion. Other members of the trillion-dollar club include Google parent Alphabet (GOOG), worth $1.8 trillion, and Amazon (AMZN), at $1.7 trillion.

    Tesla is the second fastest company to hit the $1 trillion mark, reaching it just more than 12 years after its 2010 initial public offering. Only Facebook (FB), which needed just over 9 years from its IPO to reach $1 trillion, got there faster.

    Apple took the longest, hitting the mark more than 37 years after it started trading in 1980, followed by Microsoft, which took a bit more than 33 years. Amazon needed 21 years, while Google reached the mark for the first time after 15 years. It's not uncommon for companies that reach the $1 trillion benchmark to slip back below it.

    Tesla did on Monday surpass Facebook, whose shares are slipping following the release of a large trove of internal documents known as "The Facebook Papers."

    Facebook (FB) shares closed down more than 5% in Friday trading, and even with a modest rebound Monday are off 17% from the peak earlier this year when the company was valued at more than $1 trillion. Facebook's market cap closed Monday at $927 billion.

    For Tesla, by contrast, Wall Street's excitement about the future of electric vehicles has pushed the company's market value to more than the 11 largest global automakers combined.

    Tesla is worth more than three times as much as Toyota (TM), the second most valuable automaker, which has a market cap of about $280 billion, and boasts sales and profits that dwarf those of Tesla.

    Last year Tesla sold only 500,000 cars worldwide — meaning its current market value is equivalent to roughly $2 million per vehicle sold.

    The company has already sold 627,000 cars so far this year, and is aiming to be close to a million sales for the full year. That would still equate to a valuation of more than $1 million per vehicle, but clearly investors are nonetheless betting Tesla will achieve its target of 50% or more in annual sales growth for years to come.

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    Tesla Is Worth $1 Trillion

    With does the successful electric-car maker still need taxpayer subsidies?

    Oct. 26, 2021



    Elon Musk struck gold again Monday when Tesla Inc., the electric-car maker he founded and runs as CEO, reached a stock market capitalization of $1.03 trillion. That’s a staggering business achievement, even discounting for today’s monetary-policy induced surge in asset prices.

    Tesla’s 12.7% Monday price leap was triggered by news that Hertz will buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3 cars for its rental fleet. Tesla only produced about half a million cars in all of 2020. The Model 3 sells for about $40,000. The Hertz purchase will broaden public awareness of Tesla’s vehicles, enhancing its chances to become a mass-market brand rather than a virtue-signaling indulgence of the affluent.

    It seems only yesterday—2018—that Apple became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap. Now Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (parent of Google) are all worth more than that, and Facebook was too before the assault on its reputation by a former employee and stolen internal documents. Apple is worth nearly $2.5 trillion.

    As for Tesla, its market cap exceeds that of the next nine largest auto makers combined. Toyota is worth $237 billion, GM only $84 billion and Ford $64 billion. Mr. Musk is proving again that the rewards of being a market disrupter are larger than ever.

    No one should begrudge Mr. Musk his commercial success, but one question comes to mind: Why does Tesla still need subsidies to make and consumers to buy electric cars? The House reconciliation bill would extend the existing $7,500 EV tax credit through 2031 and remove the 200,000 car per-manufacturer cap, which both GM and Tesla have hit.

    This is in addition to the many other government subsidies to produce batteries and the cars themselves. Tesla also benefits from the sale of regulatory credits to companies that don’t produce enough electric or hybrid cars to meet government mandates. Tesla’s 10-Q filing shows revenue of $1.15 billion from selling regulatory credits through Sept. 30 this year.

    A $1 trillion company doesn’t need government aid. If the Democrats follow through on their latest plan to impose a new wealth tax, the IRS will soon be pursuing Mr. Musk to turn over much of his wealth and any gain in his Tesla shares. We’d prefer to let him keep the gains of his entrepreneurial tenacity but give up the subsidies.

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