Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) price on Tuesday, December 24, rose 7.36% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $462.28.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $430.60, moving within a range at $435.14 and $462.78. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.295 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 126.64. Turning to its 52-week performance, $488.54 and $138.80 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, TSLA moved 31.12% over the past month.
Tesla Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1593.12 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 27.37B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 25.29B and 28.93B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 8.76% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 99.72B, representing a 3.05% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that TSLA is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
38 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 11 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 23 recommend TSLA as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 4 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 137.20, with TSLA’s current price about 14.93% and 40.22% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 68.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.21% and 5.44% in the 30-day chart. Further, Tesla Inc (TSLA) has a beta value of 2.31, and an average true range (ATR) of 23.76. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $255, forecast between a low of $88 and high of $515. Looking at the price targets, the low is 80.96% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -11.4%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 44.84% jump to $255 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 105.87 over the past 10 days and 92.48 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 3.21 billion shares.
The 12.92% of Tesla Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 46.63% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 77.19 million on 2024-11-29, giving us a short ratio of 0.77. The data shows that as of 2024-11-29 short interest in Tesla Inc (TSLA) stood at 276.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 77.94 million registered in 2024-10-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 86.04% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the TSLA stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
