Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Recovers 166.20% From 52-Week Low, Is TSLA Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 88.19M but it saw 80753997 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1186.08B USD, the company’s current market price of $369.49 came rising about 3.23 while comparing to the previous closing price of $357.93. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $361.93 and as low as $138.80. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $359.5102 while lowest mark touched by it was $375.41.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Tesla Inc (TSLA) gives us an average price of $338.43, while its current price level is 2.09% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 166.20% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $281.37 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $218.07. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.01% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 5.11%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 69.07 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the ROTH MKM which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on December 02, 2024, recommending a price target of between $85 and $380 for it. Truist issued its recommendations for the stock as it reiterated the price target for the stock in the range of between $236 and $238.

Over the week, TSLA’s stock price is moving 10.99% up while it is 46.95% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 48.70% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 54.78%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.71 beaten by the consensus estimate of 0.74 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in January, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.75 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.48. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $26.02B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $99.82B and seeing the company making $116.34B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $27.4B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Tesla Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.21B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 16.00% and return on equity (ROE) at 20.65%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 101.22 while having a 110.31 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.35. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 16.94 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 12.21. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.92% on average.