
Bem tinha indicado o potencial dela, em especial a sua inovativa linha de produção.
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Tesla Shares Drop Below Initial Offering Price of $17
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car company that hasn’t posted a profit, fell below the $17 price its shares sold for last week in the first initial public offering by a U.S. automaker in more than a half century.
The maker of the $109,000 electric Roadster retreated for a fourth straight day, losing 16 percent to $16.11 in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. The Palo Alto, California-based company has slid 33 percent since rising 41 percent on the first day of trading June 29.
The $260 million IPO, the first by an American car company since Ford Motor Co. in 1956, is funding a startup that expects to lose more money in the next two years as it tries to build a $57,400 battery-powered sedan. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who made almost $300 million selling PayPal Inc. and Zip2 Corp., brought Tesla public as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index posted its worst quarterly drop since 2008.
“The company is a great concept with relatively weak fundamentals,” said Josef Schuster, the Chicago-based founder of IPOX Capital Management LLC and manager of the Direxion Long/Short Global IPO Fund. “Markets are weak and in a weak market right now this is hurting the company even more.”
The automaker, which now has a market capitalization of $1.5 billion, sold 15.3 million shares at $17 each after an overallotment option was exercised, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will use proceeds for factories and possible acquisitions.
Atomez Escreveu:Lion_Heart Escreveu:Os primeiros dias de uma OPV não querem dizer nada!
Bem... para quem hoje sacou 40% quis dizer alguma coisa...
Eu também não creio que os carros eléctricos com baterias venham a ser competitivos a curto ou mesmo médio prazo, se é que alguma vez o virão a ser porque se calhar quando o forem já foram ultrapassados por outras tecnologias como os super-condensadores ou fuel cells a hidrogénio.
Mas ainda assim uma empresa como a Tesla é interessante porque uma vez desenvolvida a base de motorização eléctrica e os respectivos sistemas e software de controlo é muito mais fácil mudar a fonte de energia eléctrica das baterias para uma das outras que poderão surgir e nesse sentido pode ter o futuro assegurado.
Investir neles agora é pura especulação, mas os mercados vivem também de percepções, "modas" e "apostas" e se isso der dinheiro, porque não?
Lion_Heart Escreveu:Os primeiros dias de uma OPV não querem dizer nada!
Tesla prices IPO at $17, surpassing expectations
Shares in the electric car maker are set to begin trading Tuesday. Ticker symbol: TSLA.
Tesla Motors Inc., the Silicon Valley-based electric sports car maker, got a warm welcome from investors in the company's initial public stock offering late Monday.
Tesla priced its IPO at $17 a share, above the expected range of $14 to $16. The stock will begin trading on Nasdaq on Tuesday under the symbol TSLA.
The deal marks the first IPO by an American car company since Ford Motor Co. went public in 1956.
Tesla and current shareholders sold a total of 13.3million shares, raising $226 million. The company sold 11.9 million of the shares, for $202 million, before brokerage underwriting fees.
Tesla said earlier Monday that it was boosting the size of the stock offering to 13.3 million shares from its previous estimate of 11.1 million — a sign that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other major brokerages that were marketing the deal were seeing robust investor demand.
Tesla, based in Palo Alto, Calif., was co-founded in 2003 by Elon Musk, who made a fortune after co-founding PayPal Inc. and selling it to EBay Inc. Musk also is the entrepreneur behind the private spacecraft-development firm Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, which is based in Hawthorne.
Tesla has yet to turn a profit, and it isn't clear that a viable consumer market will develop for its cars.
The company introduced its first electric car, the $109,000 Roadster, in 2008. It has sold about 1,100 of the cars worldwide.
The IPO proceeds will fund production of the company's new vehicle, the Model S sedan, which is expected to sell for about $57,000. A federal tax credit of $7,500 for electric cars would cut the price to just under $50,000. The commercial launch is planned for 2012.
The Model S is expected to have a range of 160 to 300 miles on a single charge.