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Elon Musk is 'masterful' in how he fights back against short-sellers, Cramer says
Elon Musk is 'masterful' in how he fights back against short-sellers, Cramer says
11:50 AM ET Thu, 14 June 2018 | 02:04
Elon Musk is "masterful" in the way he fights back against the short sellers of Tesla stock, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
"You can't lay a glove on him [Musk]. He floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee," said Cramer, paraphrasing the famous quote from the late boxer Muhammad Ali.
Tesla is one of the most shorted, or most bet-against, stocks on Wall Street. But Musk always seems to have short sellers' number, Cramer said.
Late Wednesday, Tesla disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Musk bought an additional 72,500 shares of the electric automaker, worth about $24.9 million.
Shares of Tesla were higher Thursday, trading around $355 each. With about 33.7 million shares, Musk's stake in the company he co-founded and runs as chairman and CEO was worth about $11.9 billion. Tesla's stock market value was around $60 billion.
"I remember when I was a hedge fund manager there periodically would be these companies where they knew how to handle the shorts," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street." "No one has been as masterful. Elon Musk is masterful. He'll take the shorts up there with his rocket to Mars."
Cramer's hyperbole referred to another Musk company, SpaceX, which in February sent the entrepreneur's personal Tesla Roadster into space. At the time of the stunt, Cramer compared Musk to illusionist David Blaine, in the way he distracted from terrible quarterly results at Tesla with a successful SpaceX rocket launch.
In another bit of flooding the zone, Musk's tunnel digging venture Boring Co. said it has won the bidding to build a high-speed express train to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Musk's Boring Co., SpaceX and Tesla are all separate companies, with only Tesla trading as a public stock.
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