Tesla's IPO was 15 years ago. The stock is up almost 300-fold since then

**Unwelcoming toxic/griefing/pessimistic sniping comments that are not on topic and don’t move the discussion forward will be removed. A ban will be issued if necessary. Consider this before commenting. Report posts or comments that violate the [Rules](https://www.reddit.com/mod/teslamotors/rules/). Thank you.** If you are unable to find it, use the link to it. We are not a support sub, please make sure to use the proper resources if you have questions: [Official Tesla Support](https://www.tesla.com/support), [r/TeslaLounge](https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/) personal content | [Discord Live Chat](https://discord.gg/tesla) for anything. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/teslamotors) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Perhaps if the face of the company didn’t involve himself into politics like he did, the stock would be up, even higher. 🤷‍♂️ I used to own the stock. Made some $$ on it. Still own two Teslas. I like stability with my stocks. Won’t invest in TSLA until leadership changes.

Car is great… the stock is way overpriced

To be able to go back in time..

Its fundamentals already don't support its current price....

But the robotaxi! Optimus! Think about the future! Edit: /s

I own some stock but still think it's over price. Robotaxi could land Tesla in a lot of liability. Just look at Wymo dragging pedestrian incident.

So glad I bought in early. This stock and Elon changed my life.

This, unironically.

How many years ago approximately? I wish I bought earlier haha

Guess how much Enron's stock went up after IPO.

People like to use it as a punchline.... But if Tesla gets it right (a big if) The stock is appropriately priced

...and I will pull all my investment if the leadership changes. Elon is **the** reason why Tesla succeeded, and he's the main differentiator going forward.

Not in the mind of the average investor (who I would trust over a random redditor). If the stock is over priced,  you can make money by shorting them.

Except no one knows at all what the market is for robotaxi’s or in-home robots. So it’s still all WILD speculation.

I disagree the robotaxi is not in the mind of the average investor... who just read over the weekend about the first fully autonomous home delivery of a car from the factory. People are going to catch on quick once they start rapidly scaling up Robotaxi.

Great car. Stock is a joke. Fair value is more like 25 dollars per share

To us you are a random redditor too....

Yes, but I am not giving my own opinion of the stock. I am delegating it to the average investor.

Have you ever shorted a stock? The timing is much different compared to buying long.

Exactly. So in other words, the stock assumes everything will go perfectly eventually. The likelihood of that happening is not 100% so that uncertainty should be priced in and it doesn’t seem like it is

MSM said the stock was overpriced back then too!

This is not how valuations work and makes zero sense. It's still massively overvalued because you don't price in perfect success, decades ahead of time.

Love him or hate him he IS good for the stock price. As long as he is involved it will continue its upward trajectory

Not sure if you're aware, but the stock price is the current valuation. So yes it is how valuations work. What do you think people are pricing in exactly?

Did Enron make money though?

Glad I invested $10mm that day.

Not intelligent valuations. You replying with what you did shows how intelligent it really is.

Actually, I had 4,500 shares at one time. I knew they would keep going up cuz of Elon. But then dumped into game stop. Now I'm down to nothing after that fiasco. 😢Went from making $500k to losing a crap ton.

A fair chunk of that return though has come in short periods. Eg. Nov 2019 - Mar 2020 when the stock turned from low tens to hundreds, as the Model 3 became a global success and Model Y details began coming out. Since that period depending when you invested you might have lost money.

Hell, its undervalued if they hit it.

Then WHY do people consistently value the company at its price?

Went all in GameStop aswell mate lost almost 700k just buy “holding”

*"Anyone I disagree with must be stupid."* Uh huh, Ok.

The market knows better than you

Smartest thing I ever did.

But you might miss the boat

If you had bought BEFORE the squeeze you’d have done fine but you can’t buy afterwards 😆

About 450%. Not even close to what TSLA has done since IPO.

I’m in at $11/share. Back when Elon was relatively unknown I was reading about him and knew he was the Thomas Edison of our times and wanted to be in what he was doing. Space X wasn’t public so I bought Tesla. Wish I had bought more!

You've done pretty well. How much is that $11 share worth now? I mean, we had a couple of splits over the years as well.

225 and DROPPING! *tim walz face

I can’t imagine a ton of people would want an Optimus in their house but I think there’s a ton of potential uses cases for it in manufacturing

Up about 2000%

I too, lost a big chunk of my investment in that fiasco.

It's not just the car, it's everything attached to Elon. Lots of projects and lots of potential if they succeed.

I bought around IPO. 100 shares. $24. It fell to $18 and I freaked out and sold, here I am. Poor.

Doubtful. Manufacturing is already entirely automated. Any new factory runs on robots, but they’re purpose-built for the task.

Not sure why the /s Thinking about the long term pipeline, as crazy as it sounds to the common ear, even the Model 3 being viable for the mass when Elon hinted it in 2015 along with software, vertical integration etc. is what got the stock here in the first place. Proud investor since that year and still am during huge dips. Don’t care about the noise, still up bigly overall even on the reddest of days.

Because the stock is priced as if Autonomous Driving and Autonomous Robots are a sure thing or at least that the market for them will produce profits 20x what Tesla currently makes. The likelihood of that happening is low.

Most people talked to me like that in 2017, 2019, 2021 that X Y and Z are already priced in, it’s the highest it’ll go. Truth is no one knows how any stock is priced in. We’ll see. I’m long term guy, I’ll wait for Optimius production etc.

I mean… the stock is down from Q4 2021 so I guess some of those people were right.

Noise will keep buying 🙂‍↕️ (Stock was also poorly performing 2017-2019) Those people are only right if they shorted.

I put down the deposit on a model 3, if I had bought shares instead rip