Tesla stock soars: Musk's Trump support pays off in near-term
Tesla (TSLA) shares surge with CEO Elon Musk's involvement in the US election seemingly pays off after President-elect Donald Trump's win. Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber joins Seana Smith and Madison Mills on Catalysts to discuss what's next for Tesla and Musk. "Certainly, it puts Elon in the driver's seat as far as access to the White House," Kawasaki says, adding, "I think there's this difference between what's great for Elon and what's sort of great for Tesla." He explains for Tesla, the Trump win, "I would assume that this would help them [in] getting at least on a federal regulatory basis, get some of the heat off of them, because they have so many investigations. On a state level, it doesn't help them at alL, as far as getting approvals for robotaxis and such. You know, what I really think is it's too early to determine if Trump's going to roll back the subsidies to EVs, and this will hopefully prevent that from happening and hurting Tesla and, hence, the rally." Kawasaki notes, "I'm not buying any more [Tesla shares at this point]. You know, we've been lowering our stake in Tesla because it was our top position several years ago. We made a lot of money. We still think the challenges Tesla faces to get full self-driving to work are not going to be solved by Donald Trump coming into the White House." He adds, if anything, Musk's relationship with Trump could distract him from working at Tesla. He says, "If you want to own Tesla, you should. It's kind of what I say about bitcoin (BTC-USD). If you want to own bitcoin, own bitcoin. I can't tell you what it's going to do ... [Tesla is] part of our risk bucket in our portfolio and it's just not the biggest risk that we're taking today, which is more in things like computer chips like Nvidia (NVDA) because Tesla and Elon are sending all their money to Nvidia. And that's my preferred play right now in the market over the next several years." To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.
