TSLA stock split soon?

[swengl]

Well stated. Easy for us to understand that since well at least for me I live and breathe Tesla news.
The truth is that at least for the people I speak to us that they are lazy and don't want to do the research for themselves and then are surprised to hear how well tesla is doing

I still have people ask me, when they see the Model S, "What kind of car is that?" and when I tell them, a good number still haven't heard of Tesla. It seems shocking to me that it continues to happen, with Tesla being a trillion dollar company. I guess this is where the lack of marketing/advertising is "hurting" Tesla. (I put "hurting" in quotes because supply has not caught up with demand yet, so it's only theoretical opportunity costs, at this point).

 

[Ogre]

I still have people ask me, when they see the Model S, "What kind of car is that?" and when I tell them, a good number still haven't heard of Tesla. It seems shocking to me that it continues to happen, with Tesla being a trillion dollar company. I guess this is where the lack of marketing/advertising is "hurting" Tesla. (I put "hurting" in quotes because supply has not caught up with demand yet, so it's only theoretical opportunity costs, at this point).

Well Tom Brady should fix the Hertz.

Lots of free to Tesla high profile advertising coming.

 

[FutureBoy]

buy fractional shares.

Just don't buy fictional shares.

 

[swengl]

Well Tom Brady should fix the Hertz.

Lots of free to Tesla high profile advertising coming.

It's absolutely brilliant the way Tesla has "other means" of marketing and they don't have to invest much of anything to get it.

 

[swengl]

Just don't buy fictional shares.

Or frictional shares, they chafe.

 

[happy intruder]

I was watching for an announcement of a pending stock split when TSLA hit $1000/share. It didn't happen. One of the reasons for a split is to bring the price per share down to a level that the Average Joe can afford, but still not dilute the total value of shares already held. Maybe when it hits 1500?

Of course any rumors of a split will drive the share price up considerably. DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to manipulate the market to increase price by even discussing a possible split.

aint gonna happen over night....they have to announce it in advance

 

[happy intruder]

Just don't buy fictional shares.

my wifes from Guayaquil.....I love Cuenca

 

[Ogre]

Things I as a shareholder care about a lot more than a split:

• Tera Texas Model Y production is at 1000 cars/ week
• Texas & Berlin 4680 cell lines are starting up.
• Giga Berlin production ramp is starting and local European deliveries start.
• Model X and Model S production is up to planned 100k units/ year.
• Production starts on that other vehicle made-in-Texas vehicle… what’s it called?
• Semi & Roadster come online.
• What was that other vehicle they‘d announced coming up soon??
• They finally announce a timeline for their $25k vehicle and production plans around it.
• Feedback on whether the 4680/ structural pack meets expectations.

All of this is planned/ hitting the fan in the next 14 months. All of it impacts long term growth a heck of a lot more than how many slices the pie has. Splits don’t hurt my feelings either… just not on my personal list of important things. Amazon shares seem to do just fine bobbling around at around 3400/ share right now.

 

[rr6013]

Things I as a shareholder care about a lot more than a split:

• Tera Texas Model Y production is at 1000 cars/ week
• Texas & Berlin 4680 cell lines are starting up.
• Giga Berlin production ramp is starting and local European deliveries start.
• Model X and Model S production is up to planned 100k units/ year.
• Production starts on that other vehicle made-in-Texas vehicle… what’s it called?
• Semi & Roadster come online.
• What was that other vehicle they‘d announced coming up soon??
• They finally announce a timeline for their $25k vehicle and production plans around it.
• Feedback on whether the 4680/ structural pack meets expectations.

All of this is planned/ hitting the fan in the next 14 months. All of it impacts long term growth a heck of a lot more than how many slices the pie has. Splits don’t hurt my feelings either… just not on my personal list of important things. Amazon shares seem to do just fine bobbling around at around 3400/ share right now.

TSLA == AAPL $149.00
or
TSLA= BRK.A $433,159.00

The store of value may be the more accurate reflection than the currency model Apple maintains splitting when price gets high.

 

[Ogre]

TSLA == AAPL $149.00
or
TSLA= BRK.A $433,159.00

The store of value may be the more accurate reflection than the currency model Apple maintains splitting when price gets high.

Even Berkshire broke down and introduced B shares I think trading around ~$300/ share. That’s what I own primarily.

One thing about huge share values is it makes it a lot more difficult to trade options.

As I said above, I’m not against splits. I just find it weird that they often get more attention than the underlying business fundamentals.

 

[swengl]

Things I as a shareholder care about a lot more than a split:

• Tera Texas Model Y production is at 1000 cars/ week
• Texas & Berlin 4680 cell lines are starting up.
• Giga Berlin production ramp is starting and local European deliveries start.
• Model X and Model S production is up to planned 100k units/ year.
• Production starts on that other vehicle made-in-Texas vehicle… what’s it called?
• Semi & Roadster come online.
• What was that other vehicle they‘d announced coming up soon??
• They finally announce a timeline for their $25k vehicle and production plans around it.
• Feedback on whether the 4680/ structural pack meets expectations.

All of this is planned/ hitting the fan in the next 14 months. All of it impacts long term growth a heck of a lot more than how many slices the pie has. Splits don’t hurt my feelings either… just not on my personal list of important things. Amazon shares seem to do just fine bobbling around at around 3400/ share right now.

These are definitely reasons to buy and hold the stock long term. If you are thinking of when to sell the stock and you don't need the cash you have to ask yourself: where else can my money continue to grow as quickly and how much risk are you willing to take that it doesn't grow as much or as fast as you hope?

 

[bill.french]

I was just thinking about Robinhood and I think there is 1 or 2 other companies which let you buy fractional shares.

Stash allows me to buy $1.00 in $TSLA if I want. It easily supports variable purchase amounts during off-days and seamless dollar-cost averaging for me - the truly small investor.

 

[JeffnReno]

Not saying it had anything to do with it but the split happened around the time of the S&P inclusion. There was a bunch going on at that time and the stock split may have helped push things the way Tesla had planned, to reach whatever goals they were after. Not all popular brokerage firms allow fractional purchases and if already linking several funding sources to a prefered account that doesn't allow fractional, you may not be as likely to want to establish links to others just to be able to make fractional buys. Just my thoughts but I havn't bought any more shares since the split nor have I sold any. My Basis is at $44 per share and I'm not looking to dilute that number higher anytime soon as already have more than enough gain to buy 2 CTs with shares left over. YMMV

 

[CyberT]

Not saying it had anything to do with it but the split happened around the time of the S&P inclusion. There was a bunch going on at that time and the stock split may have helped push things the way Tesla had planned, to reach whatever goals they were after. Not all popular brokerage firms allow fractional purchases and if already linking several funding sources to a prefered account that doesn't allow fractional, you may not be as likely to want to establish links to others just to be able to make fractional buys. Just my thoughts but I havn't bought any more shares since the split nor have I sold any. My Basis is at $44 per share and I'm not looking to dilute that number higher anytime soon as already have more than enough gain to buy 2 CTs with shares left over. YMMV

I was super proud of my $132/share avg cost pre/split but then I slapped myself and kept buying. The low dollar per share is just vanity. Early retirement is the real goal. I am up to $153/share now and those additional shares I bought since then have raised my /per share and I'm up $2600 with 5 new shares that will continue increasing in value.

 

[Ogre]

I was super proud of my $132/share avg cost pre/split but then I slapped myself and kept buying. The low dollar per share is just vanity. Early retirement is the real goal. I am up to $153/share now and those additional shares I bought since then have raised my /per share and I'm up $2600 with 5 new shares that will continue increasing in value.

I just bought during this surge. Just have to hold your nose and realize sometime you will buy shares and they may go underwater for a while.