Top 10 Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now

Top 10 Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now: Tesla Motors Inc.(TSLA)

Tesla Motors, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. It offers Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car. The company markets and sells its vehicles directly to consumers through the phone and Internet, as well as through its network of Tesla stores. It operates 18 Tesla stores located in Boulder, Chicago, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Miami, New York, Newport Beach, San Jose, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Copenhagen, London, Milan, Monaco, Munich, Paris, Tokyo, and Zurich. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Charles Riley]

  Toyota's move follows a similar decision by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, who announced in June that he would not take legal action against anyone who used Tesla (TSLA) technology in good faith. The idea was that opening the patents to a wider audience would help boost the electric car industry at large.

• [By Johanna Bennett]

  Can Tesla Motors (TSLA) survive falling gas prices?

  MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends weighs in on the topic today, as the shares of the electric car maker fell 3% in recent trading to $215.78. He writes:

  Maybe people are still going to line up to pay $70,000 for one of his fancy new battery-powered Tesla S models. But it was a lot easier to sell the concept when gasoline was $3.70 a gallon than it is at $2.25.

  More than a dozen Wall Street analysts rate Tesla a Buy. Yet the stock has dropped 26% since hitting a 52-week intraday high above $291 in early September. According to data compiled by Edmunds, the auto market research company, sales of light trucks are suddenly booming again, while sales of hybrids, electrics and other fuel-efficient vehicles have tanked, falling! in May through November from 4.1% of the market to just 3.2%.

  As Arends writes:

  Whether this is enough to run Tesla off the road is another matter. Personally I'd avoid any stock this popular and universally loved, but that may be just because I'm ornery and I don't like crowds. Car fans seem to like the Tesla vehicles, and Musk knows how to market. (A couple of years ago, while strolling through midtown Manhattan, I came across a crowd of New Yorkers gawking and oohing and aahing over a parked car—an early model Tesla.)

  It is an open question whether the recent collapse in oil prices is going to be a short-term thing or part of another long bear market, like the one we saw during the 1980s and 1990s.

  But one thing that ought to be bullish for gasoline—and hence for Tesla—is that every time oil prices fall people just go out and waste it some more. Gasoline prices are down over six months, and already U.S. car buyers are shunning fuel-efficient vehicles and buying themselves a new SUV. When enough do that, gasoline consumption goes back up, and so do prices.

• [By Motley Fool Staff]

  To help you navigate the risky strategy of short-selling, three Motley Fool contributors explain below why they would never short shares of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA  ) , Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN  ) , or Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX  ) , and why you shouldn't either.

• [By Chris Dieterich]

  Tesla Motors (TSLA) added 2.5% after the electric car maker announced that it had made enhancements to its “Roadster” model that will lengthen its driving range. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, hinted at the announcement via Twitter on Thursday.

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