What If You'd Put Your Tesla Model 3 Deposit Into Tesla Stock?
$1,000 on a Tesla Model 3 reservation in 2016, or the same money in Tesla stock
$23,034
would be worth today — 23.0x the price of the Tesla Model 3 reservation
Tesla shares
65.28
Held for
10.5 years
S&P 500 instead
$4,441
Tesla opened Model 3 reservations on March 31, 2016. Hundreds of thousands of people put down $1,000 deposits.
How we worked it out: Launch price: a $1,000 refundable deposit. We put the $1,000 into Tesla stock at its closing price on March 31, 2016 ($15.32, adjusted for later stock splits and dividends) and value those shares at today's price. Launch prices are US list prices before tax.
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Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.