Astonishing to me the level of ill-will and deliberate misinformation regarding Tesla in the US press, Bloomberg, Fox, Wall Street analysts, etc.
War profiteers and Koch bothers control a lot of the press these days though subsidiary entities.
Hard to avoid the impression that it is an all out coordinated attack on the company and the stock.
People are publishing this crap because they are being paid to do so.
I could agree with what you said about Fox, but that is hardly a surprise (and to a lesser extent Bloomberg).
But many mass media outlets had tons of positive coverage for TSLA. For example an "analyst" like Andrea James. Please ask yourself objectively if she sounds like an analyst or a TSLA PR person.
Ask anyone in PR/advertising what the TSLA coverage post IPO was worth in terms of saved advertising $. There are thousands of companies listed, many of them have innovative products worth talking about. Ask yourself how many got as much free press coverage and interviews as TSLA (except for maybe AAPL, but then AAPL has the largest market cap worldwide).
TSLA was long a media darling, there is no "conspiracy", except for the obvious outlets such as Fox where everything alt energy/Obama is close to evil
.
As for analysts, I also think the contrary is true. Most sell-siders are
bullish on TSLA, some with price targets above $200. If anything they follow the price on the chart. Look for my old comment where I listed the analyst of Deutsche Bank price targets. His TSLA PT was $28 up to late February 2013, now his latest from September 2013 is $200.
Mass media love to put "heroes" on a podium, celebrate them...only to smack them down again. That's how they work and make money, cynical but true. Same for artists as for companies. Mass media, including most financial media are in the business of
entertainment.
Anyone looking for good stock advice from CNBC and other outlets is misguided in my opinion. Do your own research, study the numbers, don't follow the herd. Following momentum is dangerous until you exactly know when to jump off. That is my honest opinion.
When I warned here in late September and posted links about "Behavioral Finance" (that would include only getting news and opinion on a forum such as this one where 90%+ is bullish) I got tons of negative reactions. Many if not most longs were sure TSLA would soon cross $200 post earnings or at least stay close to $200.
What successful investors told me: Listen to people who take the opposite direction of your trade before you make a decision - otherwise, you are in for more biased/selective news filtering.