$420/share is not even visible in the rear-view mirror as Tesla Inc (TSLA) roars past $500/share and closes at $524,86/share. Tesla is now up over 25% in 2020 and up +193% since 2019 low of $178.97/share on June 3rd.
Tesla Inc (TSLA) is truly a tale of two securities, while the stock is up a respectable +21% for the year, it is up a blistering +126% since it’s low of $178.97 on June 3rd.
Tesla short sellers were in the “best of times” and up +$5.16 billion in net-of-financing mark-to-market profits as Tesla lost -46% of its value from January 1st to June 3rd 2019, nearly offsetting the -$5.75 billion of mark-to-market losses they incurred from 2016-2018.
Tesla Inc’s (TSLA) stock price rallied over 20% in aftermarket trading yesterday and the rally has carried forward to today’s open. TSLA is up 16.5% in mid-morning trading and short sellers are, as Elon Musk stated earlier in the year, “feeling the burn.” TSLA short interest is $8.31 billion; 32.62 million shares shorted; 23.13% of its float; 0.58% stock borrow fee. TSLA is the second largest short in the U.S. equity market behind Apple Inc (AAPL) with $10.47 billion of short interest.
Tesla Inc’s (TSLA) stock price had been dropping and its shares shorted were increasing for most of the first half of 2019. TSLA short sellers were up +$5.16 billion in mark-to-market net-of financing profits as of June 3rd when TSLA hit its year-to-date low of $178.97/share. In just over six months, TSLA shorts were $128 million shy of recouping their 2016-2018 mark-to-market losses of -$5.29 billion.
While there are several Electric Vehicles (EVs) being produced by Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) manufactures such as the Chevy Bolt, Ford Focus, Toyota Prius and the Nissan Leaf and there are many EV manufacturers such as Bollinger, Byton, Lucid and Polestar planning to deliver EV’s in the next few years there are only two major EV producers that are truly shortable – Nio Inc ADR (NIO US) and Tesla Inc (TSLA US). Both NIO and TSLA have been actively shorted in 2019 with positive year-to-date results.
Tesla short int is $9.48bn; 39.17mm shs shorted; 27.76% of float; 0.58% borrow fee. Shs shorted down -579k shs in Sept as price rose 7.3%; and up +424k, +1%, over the last week. Shorts are up +$2.44bn, +27.2%, in YTD mark-to-market profits, but down -$683mm, -7.4%, in Sept.
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short interest is $8.9bn; 39.31 mm shs shorted; 29.62% of float; 0.73% borrow fee. Shares shorted have increased by +564k, +1.45% over the last month, but decreased by -373k,-0.94%, over the last week. Shorts are up +$3.02 billion in YTD mark-to-market profits, -$73mm in Sept.Â
Tesla Inc (TSLA) reported second quarter results after the market closed on Wednesday and although they delivered a quarter of record deliveries (95,356 vehicles), record production (87,048 vehicles), and strong revenues ($6.35 billion) they also reported a wider than expected loss of -$1.12 per share. Tesla is projecting positive net income for the third quarter and the opening of its Chinese production facility year end. Another negative announcement was the resignation of its founding engineer and CTO, J.B. Straubel, after 16 years of service at the company.
Tesla Inc (TSLA) closed the day down -2.69%, and down -14% month-to-date. TSLA shorts are up $1.07 billion in mark-to-market profits in May, making it one of their most profitable months since 2016. TSLA shorts are having a rebound year, up $3.88 billion in mark-to-market profits in less than five months in 2019 versus mark-to-market losses of -$1.40 billion in 2018, -$3.56 billion in 2017 and -$400 million in 2016.
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