Looks like TSLA is the newest altcoin, with swings of 20% up and down in under 24 hours.
I didn't want to click on that link, so I didn't read it but had to take a look at the chart for TSLA. Looks like there was a spike, a plateau, and then a drop but it isn't as though the stock was going haywire constantly. I've seen worse.
Right but I'm still trying to grasp the price of Tesla and in comparison to maybe a Ford stock. There's a huge difference between the two prices and seemingly there are probably more Fords on the road than Teslas. Any thoughts?
It has to do with how many shares are on the market and what the market caps are for each company. Small companies with small amounts of shares being traded can have very high stock prices, and big companies with billions of shares can have low stock prices.
TSLA shares outstanding: 180.25 million
F(Ford) shares outstanding: 3.92 billion
Source: Marketwatch.com