The Market Darling of Tech, ESG and Meme Themes

Tesla (TSLA) Speaking Factors:

• Tesla is usually related to Technoking (precise title on the firm) Elon Musk.
• The corporate has been on the forefront of Digital autos and this has pushed the inventory worth to extraordinarily sturdy valuations.
• The 2020/2021 market mania helped to drive Tesla as one of the priceless firms on the planet even supposing they nonetheless have comparatively minor market share in autos.

TSLA On speak of autonomous car tech, no meme inventory has been in focus longer than Tesla (TSLA). Some name it a cult inventory moderately than a meme inventory (if there’s a distinction). Tesla inventory has risen over 700% since January 2020. A 5 for 1 inventory cut up in August 2020 helped hold the share worth at a extra accessible degree whereas additionally decreasing consideration from Tesla’s absurd share worth appreciation.

TESLA (TSLA) PRICE CHART – (JANUARY 2020 – MAY 2021)

Chart created by Izaac Brook, Supply: TradingView

CEO Elon Musk welcomes and encourages the memes surrounding his firm, taking to Twitter to interact in banter, hype up Tesla, and share his bullish views on cryptocurrencies. The corporate’s current funding in Bitcoin additionally appeals to retail merchants – huge time. Tesla introduced strong earnings for Q1 2021. The truth is, $101 million of the $438 million in internet revenue the corporate reported got here from its sale of a number of the bitcoin holdings acquired earlier within the yr. Tesla’s CFO stated the sale was important to show bitcoin’s liquidity. Given Musk’s degree of involvement and Tesla’s cult-like following, it is among the world’s greatest performing meme shares. And given Musk’s potential to supply the majority of Tesla’s Q1 internet income from carbon credit and Bitcoin good points, he’s definitely given the web a focus for a lot of of those current market themes.

Our personal Wealthy Dvorak touched on that almost all current earnings launch from Tesla, and the inventory has remained on its again foot because the Monday announcement. After hitting a excessive round $750 on Monday the inventory has now dropped all the way down to $670 as of this writing, a fall of greater than 10%.

There may be, nonetheless, a case to be made for some continued bullish conduct, particularly upon examination of larger image charts as worth motion stays above a longer-term bullish trendline. The early-year flare as much as $900 illustrates the retail enthusiasm behind meme shares very properly; however as we’ll see within the coming pages that focus started to veer onto different shares comparable to GameStop and AMC.

Tesla Each day Value Chart

Chart created by James Stanley, Supply: TradingView

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— written by Izaac Brook, DailyFX Analysis Intern, James Stanley, Senior Strategist