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Damien Parker's avatar

Great list of questions Kevin. I would perhaps suggest adding two more dealing with the food chain of the company itself. Customers and suppliers are critical, and they are not static. For instance, a management shakeup in a major competitor might now make that competitor that much more competitive/aggressive. Changes in their systems for product/service offerings might also test resilience. Equally this applies to customers, particularly major customers.

Maybe you have this covered in question 10.

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Eddy's avatar

I own 3,500 shares (cost basis $26) of Tesla and am currently reading Security Analysis by Ben Graham/ Dodd. There is just so much about investing that is unknowable. Today we have so much more data, research just a click away. Yet even with this we can't really know the future. I know Tesla doesn't check all the boxes for typical value investors or growth investors either. But Musk is such an unusual character that I can't bet against him. It is like betting against Tom Brady. He is 3 touchdowns behind late in the 3rd quarter, but more often than not he finds a way to win!!! So I will buy more shares should a recession manifest itself. Whatever it is, I can be sure Musk will have an answer for it. This isn't very scientific or rational, but I have to call them as I see them. I read both the biographies on Musk and I can assure you they won't be making many more like him any time soon. He, like Brady, is not money motivated. They both just have to win, and prepare like no one else to do that. I wouldn't bet the farm on Tesla either, but I am confident that they have a long way to go and that volatility will be with the stock for at least another 10 years. Great article.

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