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  • There's no other automotive company quite like Tesla. The electric vehicle manufacturer

  • has upended the automotive world since its initial public offering in 2010.

  • After initially producing a concept car roadster, Tesla moved on to the Model S; a high-end

  • sedan that proved that Tesla could make electric vehicles that were, both, practical and tons

  • of fun to drive. Tesla has since gone on to produce its SUV, the Model X, and its first

  • mass-market car, the Model 3, in addition to upcoming vehicles, including the Model Y

  • and the all-electric pickup truck called the Cybertruck.

  • Despite years of skepticism from some investors, the company has not only delivered on building

  • industry-leading electric vehicles but its stock price has skyrocketed as well.

  • Tesla's stock price was up 26% at the end of 2019, thanks to a surge in the company's share price

  • following a third-quarter report that beat profit expectations as well as some help from

  • House Democrats, who've considered introducing a bill that would bring more tax credits for

  • electric vehicle buyers. Over the long haul, Tesla's stock has been

  • massively profitable for early investors, even if the company itself is currently unprofitable

  • as it invests in disruptive growth. But just how well have early shareholders made out?

  • In this episode of the bottom line, we're crunching the numbers to see how much a $5,000

  • investment in Tesla's IPO will be worth today? It's important to remember that none of Tesla's

  • recent successes was assured when the company went public back in 2010. All investors had

  • to go on was the belief in Elon Musk and his vision to create the first new public automotive

  • company in the U.S. since 1956. That took a major leap of faith for investors,

  • but it was an even riskier bet considering that Tesla was creating an all-electric vehicle, a concept

  • that much larger and well-established automotive companies had failed to produce profitably.

  • With little more than a vision, leading technology and a serial-entrepreneur with a great track

  • record at the helm, Tesla's stock went public at just $17 per share back on June 29th, 2010.

  • On the first day of trading, Tesla's stock shot up over 40% to almost $24. Even if you

  • were a public investor who didn't get in on the pre-trading IPO price, you still would

  • have made a small fortune. Today, Tesla's stock trades for around $500 per share.

  • Nearly 30 times its IPO price and over 20 times the price at the end of its first day of trading.

  • That's a total return of 2,500% from the initial IPO price.

  • To put it another way, if you had invested $5,000 and had been lucky enough to get in

  • at the IPO price of $17 per share, your Tesla stock would be worth over $125,000 today.

  • Over nine years and seven months, that's an average annual return of more than 40%.

  • Of course, riding Tesla's share price rise hasn't always been easy. Tesla has long been

  • controversial and even today many prominent investors, such as, Jim Chanos and David Einhorn

  • are short Tesla's stock. Musk and Einhorn even got into a war of words on Twitter recently,

  • with Musk taunting Einhorn's losing short bet and Einhorn challenging Tesla's truthfulness

  • regarding its financials. Controversy has always followed the company, even when its

  • price was just a fraction of where it is now. And short interest in Tesla has hovered around

  • 20% of total shares outstanding since 2012. It was impossible to imagine the incredible

  • success Tesla would have in the market when it went public back in 2010, but it wasn't

  • hard to know that Elon Musk was smart, tech-savvy and had the vision to launch a highly disruptive product.

  • Musk's pitch was that Tesla had unmatched speed of innovation that could catapult it

  • past large, bureaucratic and outdated incumbents. And given its recent results, it appears Tesla

  • is achieving that promise. Of course, exciting growth companies don't always work out,

  • but the lesson for investors is that speculation on disruptive growth companies with highly

  • invested Founder-CEOs can sometimes pay off and in a big way. As long as you're well diversified,

  • the returns on just one Tesla type company, if held for the long-term, can make up for

  • many other growth investments that don't perform. Tesla seems well on its way to making history.

  • And while the stock may not generate the massive returns of the past nine years, there's no

  • doubt that this company will be exciting to watch.

  • Thanks for watching this video! Do you think Tesla's share price will continue climbing?

  • Let us know in the comments below. And if you liked the video and want to know how our

  • analysts break down companies, get our free investing starter kit over at fool.com/start.

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