Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla's more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn't a bailout of the struggling solar provider.
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Musk poured rocket fuel on Tesla’s stock crash
Elon Musk along with his Tesla investors are prompted to take a hard look at the scale and pattern of sales.
By Liam Denning
Tesla investors begin the new year trying to escape the shadow of 2022, when more than $670 billion of value was wiped out. At the center of that, in a very real sense, is Elon Musk: Tesla Inc.'s chief executive, technoking and biggest shareholder.
Not as big as he was 14 months ago, though. Musk began heavy selling of Tesla in November 2021. Concerns about weakening demand in China — and, conversely, hopes that the worst is over — have taken center stage of late, especially as Tesla missed delivery estimates for the fourth quarter. But that shouldn't distract investors from taking a long, hard look at the scale and pattern of Musk's sales.
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