Should I buy TSLA shares?

So what?

Will you let yourself and your investments get distracted (or dictated) by a couple of naysayers on an internet forum? Now that would be a problem - not your sharing in the first place.

VT is not only much more diversified.
It’s also backed by much more “substance” in terms of earnings.

I can spend 1100 CHF to buy stock that amounts to 60 CHF in a company’s earnings.
And receive a brand-new high-quality pyjama every year.

I can also spend them to buy one share of TSLA, that will have 1/10 these earnings.
And continue to be diluted at a rapid pace in the coming years.

Sure, growth prospects for electric vehicles may admittedly be higher than for luxury night- and nightwear. Or conventional combustion engine cars. But with TSLA a lot of future hopes and growth is priced into the stock.

Using another a different metric, Tesla’s sold half a million cars, whereas its 5 biggest competitors sold 28 million. Yet TSLA is valued about the size of these five competitors combined. Who are also investing in, developing and marketing electric cars.

Therefore it strikes me as prudent not to bet everything on the one horse that costs 20, 30 or 40 times as much as its peers.

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