1. Stock slump
Shares of Tesla lost 21% of their value after Standard & Poor’s declined to add it to its index of 500 major US stocks. Being added to the index would have required portfolio managers who mirror the index to buy additional shares. Part of the rise in Tesla shares in recent months was on anticipation that it would get added to the prestigious index.
Tuesday’s 21% tumble edged out the company’s 19% slide in January 2012, less than two years after its initial public offering. The company’s third- and fourth-largest one-day drops came when it lost nearly 19% on March 16, and 17% on February 5 of this year. The stock rebounded nicely from each of those sell-offs.
And that appears to be happening Wednesday: The stock is up 9% in early trading. And the stock is still up nearly 300% for the year.
2. More competition
The partnership gives General Motors an 11% stake in the startup, receiving $2 billion in equity, the companies said Tuesday. GM will also get the right to nominate one director to Nikola’s board. Nikola shares closed 40% higher following the news.
3. Stock sale
Tesla didn’t give many specific details about what it plans to do with the money from the stock sale, simply saying in a regulatory filing that it intends to use the proceeds “to further strengthen our balance sheet, as well as for general corporate purposes.”
4. S&P 500 snub
The S&P 500 index is one of the most important stock market indices, considered a key benchmark tracking the success of America’s largest publicly traded companies.
Despite losing about $100 billion in market cap since then, Tesla is still worth more than Toyota, Disney and Coca-Cola. “In a nutshell Tesla not getting into the S&P 500 will be a head scratcher to the bulls that viewed this as virtually a lock given all the parameters met,” Wedbush analysts wrote in a note.
— CNN Business’ Annalyn Kurtz,, Paul R. La Monica and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.
Source : Nbcnewyork
