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Tesla Can, And Will, Fall Further.
This is just the beginning.
I know it feels like a lifetime ago, but cast your mind back two months, a week before the Orange Man was given his paper throne. At the time, Tesla felt unstoppable. Its stock was sky-high, and its CEO had secured himself political power over any governmental body that couldn’t hold him accountable. So, imagine the shock when JP Morgan predicted that Tesla shares would lose 66% of their value by the end of the year! Fast forward to March 2025, and Tesla’s value has already plummeted over 50% from its peak in December 2024, ultimately proving JP Morgan correct. And others believe it could fall much further. Christer Gardell, a Swedish billionaire and hedge fund manager, recently stated in an interview that “Tesla, especially now with the whole Musk circus going on everywhere, is probably the most expensive stock on the global stock exchanges right now. It could go down 95% — and maybe it should go down 95%.” That feels impossible, right? Tesla is a monolith of the EV world; it can’t crumble away like that. Well, if you look at the figures and reality of Tesla, you will quickly realise that Gardell is being incredibly optimistic.
Okay, so why is Tesla losing so much value?
Well, firstly, the company has been massively overvalued for years now. Its P/E ratio (the ratio of a company’s value…