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Musk’s Tesla grip gets tighter
Elon Musk just added a huge chunk of Tesla stock to his pile by exercising options from his 2018 CEO compensation award. The filing says he picked up more than 303.9 million shares at $23.34 apiece, and Tesla withheld over 17.5 million shares to settle part of the transaction.
Why Wall Street will care
This isn’t an open-market buy, but it does matter because voting power is the whole game here. Musk’s stake now works out to roughly 19.9% voting power, which makes the “who’s really driving Tesla?” conversation a little less theoretical and a lot more spreadsheet-y.
- The shares came from the old 2018 compensation deal
- The filing says the transaction wasn’t an open-market sale
- Musk’s net gain was still massive: more than 286 million new shares
Not just a car company, apparently
Tesla also got a little PR sugar rush from Texas transportation officials praising the Cybercab as a major design shift. Cute? Sure. Material? Maybe not on its own. But it fits the bigger Tesla story: the company keeps trying to sell investors a future built on autonomy, robots, and moon-shot vibes instead of just quarterly delivery numbers.
Big picture: Musk’s control over Tesla just got even harder to ignore, and that usually means the stock will keep trading on a mix of fundamentals, faith, and whatever Elon says next.