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WarGamer

(15,674 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:44 PM Friday

As one who watches and trades the market daily... [View all]

TSLA has gone UP $190/share since election day...

Even if Musk invested $250M to help Trump get elected...

Musk owns 411 million shares of TSLA outright...

Musk has the RIGHTS to purchase 303 million MORE shares as part of an option bonus.

While I don't know what the cost basis is of those options...

Just the 411 million shares he owns...

411,000,000 x 190/share increase since election is...

78 billion dollars.

(the options, if exercised are probably another... 50 billion)

THat's not counting the value of SpaceX which is bound to "skyrocket" pun intended... when regulations are ditched.

If Brooklynite was still here, we could argue about the merits of taxing "wealth" and not income

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