Comment by Johny_McJonstien on 12/03/2025 at 06:28 UTC

20 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: Donald Trump defends Elon Musk and classifies damage to Tesla vehicles as "domestic terrorism."

View parent comment

How low does tesla’s stock have to drop before he loses the ‘richest person’ spot?

Replies

Comment by mh1191 at 12/03/2025 at 07:51 UTC

17 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Not much further.

Of course Donny is doing his best to lower the net worth of everyone by crashing markets, so it's a little harder than just losing X% on Tesla.

Comment by ZipoBibrok5e8 at 12/03/2025 at 10:38 UTC

10 upvotes, 1 direct replies

How low does tesla’s stock have to drop before he loses the ‘richest person’ spot?

A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation (based on unconfirmed numbers):

Assuming that Musk is worth about $320B and owns $94B of TSLA then he'd need to lose around $70B to be within shouting distance of Mark Zuckerberg at around $250B. So TSLA would need to drop by about 75% to $57.50 to make him the world's second richest person. And that price is STILL much higher than the widely-accepted "fair" price of $14-$20 that TSLA would be expected to have if it were valued like any other car manufacturer.

TLDR: It's well within the bounds of possibility that Musk could shortly be number two based on Tesla's fall alone.