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Twitter Has Spoken: Musk Should Sell $21 Billion Tesla Stake

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s social media followers have spoken: The Tesla Inc. chief should sell 10%

Twitter Has Spoken: Musk Should Sell $21 Billion Tesla Stake

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The amount of stock he may potentially sell would be even greater if his options are included.</p>\n<p>Tesla’s stock closed at $1,222.09 on Nov. 5 and won’t officially begin trading again until the early morning hours of Monday in the U.S. But, in Sunday trading on FTX, a cryptocurrency version of Tesla’s shares recently fetched $1,138.95 -- 6.8% lower than the Friday close -- suggesting Musk’s tweeting could cause the real thing to fall when Wall Street wakes up.</p>\n<p>Personal Fortune</p>\n<p>Musk’s fortune stands at $338 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. About <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a>-quarter of that consists of Tesla stock options that he’s free to exercise at any time. The securities come from two big awards he received in 2012 and 2018. The older contracts expire in August next year.</p>\n<p>If he exercised all of the options now and immediately sold the shares, they would net him $95.9 billion before taxes.</p>\n<p>Musk may be signaling that he wants liquidity beyond the cash he’s secured by borrowing against his holdings in the EV maker. Last week he suggested he’d sell some stock if the UN could prove $6 billion could help alleviate world hunger. For years, Musk has said he would be the last to ever sell stock, and has often added to his position when Tesla has raised money from Wall Street so that his stake is not diluted.</p>\n<p>Tax Situation</p>\n<p>Musk moved to Texas, which has no state personal income tax, in late 2020. But as Tesla’s market value has skyrocketed and his personal wealth has ballooned, Musk has become a symbol of rising inequality -- something he appears to be sensitive to. 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The poll closed shortly after 2:15 p.m. Sunday in New York, with about 58% of respondents backing the idea of the sale.\n“I was prepared to accept either outcome,” Musk said in a tweet after the poll closed.\nThe crowd-sourcing exercise is the latest example of Musk’s long history of using Twitter and his legions of fans on the platform to stoke interest in his company, sometimes pushing the envelope with tongue-in-cheek tweets. The world’s richest person proposed the move in a tweet citing recent discussions about the ultra-wealthy hoarding unrealized gains to avoid paying taxes. Musk doesn’t take a salary, but has to pay taxes on any stock options that he exercises.\nWhile large sales by insiders are often seen as a negative signal, a sale of this size won’t alter Tesla’s story in a meaningful way, said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. Demand remains high for Tesla shares among both institutional and retail investors, he said. The unorthodox step of getting buy-in from fans and investors via a poll may also ease any concerns.\n“Selling 10% is probably going to add 1.5% to 2% to the float, so it doesn’t really significantly move the needle,” Ives said in a phone interview. “I do believe that him doing it in this way definitely would soften the blow and would help the perception as well.”\nRead more: Musk wants to use his money for Mars venture\nThe automaker’s stock has soared 73% this year, giving it a valuation of $1.2 trillion as of Nov. 5. The number of shares that Musk -- its chief executive officer and largest shareholder -- could be set to offload is equivalent to 80% of Tesla’s average daily trading volume in the past three months. The amount of stock he may potentially sell would be even greater if his options are included.\nTesla’s stock closed at $1,222.09 on Nov. 5 and won’t officially begin trading again until the early morning hours of Monday in the U.S. But, in Sunday trading on FTX, a cryptocurrency version of Tesla’s shares recently fetched $1,138.95 -- 6.8% lower than the Friday close -- suggesting Musk’s tweeting could cause the real thing to fall when Wall Street wakes up.\nPersonal Fortune\nMusk’s fortune stands at $338 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. About one-quarter of that consists of Tesla stock options that he’s free to exercise at any time. The securities come from two big awards he received in 2012 and 2018. 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