Daily Management Review

Tesla’s Share Slides Further As Goldman Analyst Suggest Selling


02/28/2017


Speculations on Tesla’s Model 3 Sedan launch leaves the analysts with varied opinions.



Noel Randewich reported that Tesla experienced a drop in its share value following Goldman Sachs’ downgrade. As a result of which maker of electric car came down by eleven percent from its position announced in the “quarterly report last week”, whereby rousing concerns about the amount of cash being used for the launch of “Model 3 sedan”.
 
David Tamberrino, an analyst from Goldman Sachs downgraded Tesla whereby bringing to “sell” from its “neutral” stance. The said reaction has taken birth amid the speculations that the production of Model 3 of Tesla could be postponed, while the company is also expected to sell its stock for raising “$1.7 billion”.
 
Likewise, with the start of this week, Tesla’s stocks were down by “4.83 percent to $244.52”. However, along with the “recent drop” also Tesla came up by thirty percent “since early December” and in the year of 2017 alone it went up by fourteen percent. Recently, Tesla traded in the range of “$180” to “$280”, whereby touching the “highs” 2015 “earlier this month” Tesla now heads for the “bottom of that range”, stated Tamberrino’s note for clients.
 
Moreover, the “short sellers” as well as the investors of Tesla do have similar views on the fate of the company whether it will turn into a “carbon-free energy” or be absorbed by “older, deep-pocketed manufacturers” the likes of General Motors. As per Reuters, seven analysts are of the opinion that Tesla should sell its Tesla, while six other think that the company should go for a buy and lastly another seven have maintained “neutral ratings”.
 
Randewich also added that:
“Last May, Goldman Sachs's previous Tesla analyst, Patrick Archambault, raised his rating on Tesla to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’ hours before the bank helped launch a secondary stock offer for the company.”
 
As banks have a requirement of keeping a separate line between their “underwriting activities” and their “broker research”, the above mentioned two events drew “attention on Wall Street”.
 
 
 
 
References:
http://www.reuters.com