Canaccord analyst Jed Dorsheimer downgraded Tesla shares from the equivalent of Buy to Hold following a two-day rally that sent shares up almost 50% at the peak of trading Tuesday.
He isn’t the first bullish analyst to recommend profit-taking. Baird analyst Ben Kallo downgraded shares from the equivalent of Buy to Hold early in January, though he lamented that decision after Tesla (ticker: TSLA) reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter numbers at the end of the month.
Another bull, with the highest target price for the stock on Wall Street—Pierre Ferragu from New Street Research—also recently downgraded shares to the equivalent of Hold from Buy. He believes in the company: His downgrade was an acknowledgment that shares had quadrupled from their lows in June.
Most of the numbers about Tesla’s epic run, such as the quadrupling, are well known by now. Shares are up more than 110% year to date, crushing comparable gains of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Tesla is now the world’s second-most valuable car company, trailing behind only Toyota Motor (TM)
Some other, more obscure, numbers about the rally are eye-popping as well. Tesla’s implied volatility is at record highs. Implied volatility is a figure derived from stock-option prices that tells traders, very roughly, how much a stock is expected to fluctuate over the coming year. Traders, perhaps obviously, expect Tesla shares to swing wildly for now.
Out-of-the-money put options rose in value Tuesday, while the stock rose another 13%, at one point hitting almost $970 a share. A put option is the right to sell a stock at a certain price in the future. Put options usually drop in value as a stock rises. It’s less likely the right to sell at any given price will be worth something when a stock is getting more valuable. But volatility is another portion of options-pricing models. The put-option pricing change is just another data point showing how unusual the Tesla rally is.
It’s been hard for Wall Street to keep up with Tesla shares. Since third-quarter 2019 earnings were reported—the event that kick-started the current rally—the average price target among analysts has gone from about $300 to $500. The stock, on the other hand, has gone from about $250 to $900.
Now only about 20% of analysts covering the company rate shares Buy. The average buy-rating ratio for stocks in the Dow is about 55%. Some bearish analysts, with price targets around $300 a share, believe electric-vehicle competition will come and that Tesla’s U.S. sales are faltering. The bullish analysts only have price targets ranging from about $600 to $800 a share, below current levels. But they still believe Tesla has a big lead in EV technology and that China will be a huge EV market in years to come.
There is consensus on one point. This stock’s run has been remarkable.
Write to Al Root at allen.root@dowjones.com
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