Medaggie said:
Anyone who thinks Tesla FSD is behind any company is laughable and to think there are 10+ Companies who has level 4 is even more laughable unless you just read the headlines without understanding what it means.
Drop any car on any road in the US and tell it to go to the next city 100 miles away. Tesla will get you there every single time. Every other company would fail miserably. Most likely would not even move.
To say that any company is ahead of Tesla because they have some "Badge" is ill-informed.
SpaceX is over-valued if you look at almost every metric BUT in no way is it a Pump/Dump/Ponzi.
People said this about Tesla and lost badly shorting it. If you think SPaceX is a Pump/Dump, then why not short it/sell a bearish option?
"No, Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) cannot reliably navigate a 100-mile trip without driver intervention. While it is highly capable on highways and can complete long stretches autonomously under ideal conditions, the system is legally classified as Level 2. It strictly requires you to actively supervise and be ready to take control at any moment"
I wouldn't short any Elon stock because he's completely disconnected from fundamentals and has a cult-like fandom of buyers that do not value the business on anything more than Musk's wild proclamations of the future.
Musk has tried to pull out all sorts of moves to increase demand via index providers which is certainly a "pump". Furthermore, it is also a "Ponzi-like" because it's completely disentangled from any sort of fundamentals.
The question becomes - can any of his companies actually grow into their valuation over the long term. Musk has routinely shown that whenever one of his companies struggles, he hypes up some new thing as some massive addressable market in order to divert attention away from the mundane realities of his businesses.
If you can keep up the hype while eventually delivering, the stocks may eventually warrant their price. If, however, he cannot maintain that level of hype and/or he cannot deliver on grand promises, eventually the emperor's clothes will be revealed.
Rather than shorting, I simply opt out because shorting involves precision timing. But opting out is a prudent way to not participate at all because all available evidence suggests that Tesla and SpaceX are not attractively priced stocks that suggest high expected returns, quite the opposite.