The tech giant, which is now concentrating on building the ‘metaverse,’ has been contending with faltering revenue and broader woes in the industry.
“Our fear heading into the final days of the deal was that Musk was going to be forced to sell more Tesla stock to fund the disaster Twitter deal and ultimately those fears came true which speaks to some of the massive selling pressures on the stock of late,” wrote Daniel Ives at Wedbush Securities. “For Musk who multiple times over the past year has said he is ‘done selling Tesla stock’ yet again loses more credibility with investors and his loyalists in a boy who cried wolf moment.
Most of Musk’s wealth is tied up in shares of Tesla. On Tuesday, his personal net worth dropped below $200 billion, according to Forbes, but he is still theMusk had lined up banks, including Morgan Stanley, to help finance the Twitter deal. His original share of the deal was about $15.5 billion, Ives estimated . But if equity investors dropped out, Musk would be on the hook to replace them or throw in more of his own money.
“The Twitter circus show has been an absolute debacle from all angles since Musk bought the platform for all the world to see: from the 50% layoffs and then bringing back some workers, to the head scratching verification roll-out to users which many are pushing back on, to the constant tweeting in this political firestorm backdrop, and now ... selling more TSLA stock,” Ives wrote.
Who bought them?
That had to hurt Elmo! elonmusk
It's kind of fun watching elonmusk blow up both Twitter & Tesla
That’s only 4 months of interest payments on his loan lol
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