During the tropical seasons of August 2018, Elon Musk on an interview, which went so viral and contravention, predicted that the Tesla company stock would hit the magic number of 420 US dollars by taking Tesla private. The price was a 20% premium during that time.

Tesla Troubles

Shortly after the podcast, Elon Musk seemed to take a hit on a marijuana cigarette, leading to the judgment of Elon Musk’s behavior among investors and board members. This issue even reached the SEC (Security and Exchange Commissions), forcing him to step down from the chairman position for more than 3 years.

Fortunately, Elon Musk has secured a legal achievement during the month of December.

Tesla faced plenty of challenges like distribution challenges, a sales slump and quarterly losses. All of this led to heavy losses in Tesla shares, as low as 117 dollars a share in June.

In recent months, there was a great shift in the wind for the Tesla team and Elon Musk. The rise in sales boosted Tesla to a great gain in the third quarter, they introduced the fourth car, and even completed the construction of a new factory in China, the world’s largest potential market for electric cars.

After two months of complete exertion, Tesla is instantly over the share price offered in the last year.

Recent news of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, being investigate for Insider Buying has everyone looking for how this could happen and who in the past has been prosecuted for insider trading. It’s usually hedge fund owners that get in trouble for insider trading but there have been others including Martha Stewart, George Soros, and Marylin Star. When someone purchases stock on insider knowledge not available to the public, they can be prosecuted.

Elon Musk

On August 7th of last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he had secured funding to take the company private from Saudi sources at the price of $420/share. This public announcement caused the price of the stock to climb dramatically (8 percent) before being halted. The problem is that Musk had never made a public announcement about the company in this fashion before. And he could be in trouble if the price per share is inaccurate or all the funding is not actually secured. Look for private investors to sue Musk for his announcement if they feel they lost money because of the public announcement on Twitter.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart got in trouble in 2004 for insider trading of ImClone stock and had to serve 5 months in prison with an additional 2 years of supervised time including some home confinement. Stewart sold ImClone stock two days prior to the stock falling 16% after an FDA decision on the biotech’s most important drug. She avoided $45,000 in loses by selling when she did. It was discovered that she acting on advise from a financial advisor who had knowledge of ImClone CEO Sam Waksal (Net Worth $70 million) selling $5 million of the stock. The reason he was selling was unknow at the time. Because she did not know the reason for the trade and did not have company information at her disposal, she was not charged with insider trading. But she obstructed justice during the investigation and was sentence for that crime.

Tesla stock (TSLA) has done well over the past three months and beaten the overall market this past year. Yet analyst at Baird felt the stock could improve an additional 30% this year while keeping their current rating of a buy on the stock. This relates to a move from the current $275/share to $335.

The shareholder meeting tomorrow is one thing the company feels could propel the stock higher. CEO Elon Musk tends to make big announcements about new products and company direction at this meetings. Last time Musk announced that he would stay at the helm of the company for at least 4 more years and spoke about the direction of the company towards automatic driving.