Tesla IPO

Tesla Motors (TSLA) shares were hammered hard near the end of last week and are still dropping as word of the expiration of a 180-day post-IPO lock-up agreement continues to make the rounds. Starting today, 75 million Tesla shares, which had previously been subject to a lock-up agreement ...

Tesla Motors, the U.S.-based electric automaker partially backed by Toyota and Daimler, let 13.3 million shares fly in its IPO back in June. The opening price of $17 per share was higher than anticipated, but that didn't stop investors from, well, investing. Within a day, the shares shot up to ...

Himanshu Patel and Vivek Aalok are two people that you've likely never heard of, but you'll certainly become familiar with a report that they recently wrote for J.P. Morgan and here's why: Patel and Aalok wrote up a 38-page research study of Tesla Motors to determine the company's likelihood of ...

After rising 41 percent on the first day of trading, stock in Tesla Motors has been in an alarming freefall. Today, shares of Tesla Motors fell another 16 percent, landing below their initial offering price of $17 each. For those keeping track of such things, company head and largest shareholder ...

Tesla has grabbed a lot of headline attention lately, and rightly so. From the momentous IPO offering a few days back, to Tesla shares jumping 40 percent in day one of trading, to the newly redesigned Roadster and even that ...

Reuters is reporting that a market source has indicated that Tesla Motors sold 13.3 million shares in its IPO at the unexpectedly-high price of $17 per share. The source states Tesla raised nearly $226 million from the offering. Just yesterday, Tesla hinted at a price range of $14 to $16, but ...

The day before the most anticipated automotive IPO in recent history, Tesla Motors raised the numbers of shares it will publicly trade by nearly 20 percent. The increase in shares gives us an indication that initial interest in the start-up is stronger than expected. As Tesla readies its IPO, ...

So, Tesla's long-awaited IPO is due next week, and there's a lot of chatter about whether to invest or not. Considering this is the first automotive company IPO in ages, this particular offering is getting noticed by people who might otherwise not be paying attention. We're still not going to tell ...

It looks like Tesla Motors will finally be going public the week of June 28, if a report in the Wall Street Journal is correct. The long-anticipated stock offering was originally planned for the fall of 2008, but the global financial melt-down ...