Text size Fisker Inc., a new maker of electric vehicles, will announce a merger with a SPAC. The company may be new, but its founder and namesake Henrik Fisker designed the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage. He has high hopes for electric vehicles and some innovative ideas. Simon …
Read More »Tesla’s shares soared. Then $ 55 billion was stripped of its value.
Text size Monday’s reversal was the biggest change from positive to negative for Tesla since June 30, 2010, one day after it went public. Photography by Andreas Dress After a wild Monday, Tesla shares lost about $ 55 billion from their intraday peak and closed 3.1%, after rising more than …
Read More »Tesla earnings on tap next week: Will a loss end his comeback?
Tesla Inc.’s second-quarter results come amid yet another massive stock recovery, which is now more expensive than shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. and other consistently profitable heavyweights. The Silicon Valley automaker is expected to report quarterly numbers next Wednesday after the bell. An analyst call will follow at …
Read More »Tesla’s shares have more than doubled this year. Why this investor is still a fanatic.
Text size The Tesla showroom and service center in Amsterdam. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This conversation with Baillie Gifford’s partner and global equity chief James Anderson about Tesla’s shares is excerpted from Barron’s recent mid-year Roundtable, released on July 10. To …
Read More »Spartan buys Fisker for $ 2.9 billion. What it says about hot electric vehicle stocks.
Text size Fisker believes that Ocean is the world’s most sustainable all-electric SUV. Courtesy of Fisker. It’s official. Spartan Energy Acquisition is buying California-based electric vehicle maker Fisker in a deal that values the startup at $ 2.9 billion, another $ 1 billion valuation for the ultra-powered alternative fuel space. …
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