{"id":36933,"date":"2021-02-24T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36933"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:52:21","slug":"tesla-shares-increasingly-tied-to-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tesla-shares-increasingly-tied-to-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shares increasingly tied to Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla&#8217;s stock is now closely linked to the price of digital gold, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/wedbush.bluematrix.com\/sellside\/EmailDocViewer?encrypt=26fb8bd9-bfec-444f-af3d-99404a3513ec&#038;mime=pdf&#038;co=wedbush&#038;id=equityresearchdistribution@wedbush.com\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Wedbush Securities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Tesla is entering the golden age of electric vehicles, and there are concerns that small bets on bitcoin could eclipse the company&#8217;s growth story in 2021,&#8221; the strategists wrote in a new note.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wedbush analysts linked the drop in the electric-car maker&#8217;s shares to $621 with mass liquidations and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-hits-45000-as-market-capitalization-falls-below-900-billion\">a decline in Bitcoin&#8217;s price to $45,000<\/a>. According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/chart\/TSLA\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>, Tesla stock (TSLA) was trading at $698 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<div id=\\\"attachment_125810\\\" style=\\\"width: 1154px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption aligncenter\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" aria-describedby=\\\"caption-attachment-125810\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-125810\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-40.png\\\" alt=\\\"Opinion: Tesla shares have become dependent on Bitcoin\\\" width=\\\"1144\\\" height=\\\"527\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-40.png 1144w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-40-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-40-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-40-768x354.png 768w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\\\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\\\"caption-attachment-125810\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Chart of Tesla stock decline (TSLA). Data: Yahoo Finance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On February 8, Tesla reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-tesla-invested-1-5-billion-in-bitcoin-the-assets-price-rose-to-44800\">invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin<\/a>, after which the asset&#8217;s price began to rise sharply. The automaker&#8217;s shares moved in the opposite direction to the price of the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?14\\\" data-telegram-post=\\\"forklog\/17701\\\" data-width=\\\"100%\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On February 19, Elon Musk described Tesla&#8217;s investment in the leading cryptocurrency as <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-calls-teslas-bitcoin-investment-quite-risky\">&#8220;quite risky&#8221;<\/a>. The billionaire hinted that it was not his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#8217;s unrealized gains from holdings in digital gold <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-investment-proved-more-profitable-for-tesla-than-ev-sales\">were higher<\/a> than those from selling electric vehicles in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla&#8217;s shares have become highly tied to the price of digital gold, according to Wedbush Securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1217,1319],"class_list":["post-36933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-elon-musk","tag-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36935,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions\/36935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}