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  • Tesla set a new high on June twenty third,

  • and has been stumbling quite a bit since then.

  • And this week has been keeping us really busy.

  • On Monday, Elon Musk announced via Twitter

  • that the Model 3 has passed all the regulatory requirements

  • and he expects the first one can be completed tomorrow.

  • He says that there should be thirty Model 3's completed by the end of this month,

  • a hundred in August, over fifteen hundred in September and twenty thousand in December.

  • We also got second quarter production data for Tesla earlier this week

  • which show fewer deliveries than expected for the Model S and Model X

  • due to a shortage in batteries

  • which Musk had said had since been worked out.

  • Despite the recent dip in the stock,

  • Tesla is still up about fifty percent year-to-date.

  • If you look at some of the holders of Tesla,

  • one interesting one is Fidelity OTC fund which currently has Tesla as its largest holding

  • at 8.5 percent of its portfolio.

  • It is also one of the largest holders of Tesla's stock.

  • And Gavin Baker, the portfolio manager of the OTC fund,

  • he said in January when he drastically increased his allocation,

  • he said that he called the Model 3 announcement the largest consumer product to launch ever.

  • And there's a quote from him,

  • "Analogies can be dangerous, but Tesla reminds me of the early days of the iPhone,

  • when Apple had a clearly superior and revolutionary product in a large industry

  • with incumbent original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) just beginning to respond."

  • Analysts' recommendations for the stock are pretty split,

  • and given the volatility of the stock,

  • it's not surprising that the price.... the range of price stock target

  • goes all the way from $155

  • which about half of where it's now,

  • all the way up to $464 a share.

Tesla set a new high on June twenty third,

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