NEW YORK — Tesla stock kept climbing on Wednesday, with shares of the Austin automaker (NASDAQ: TSLA) trading around $427 in midday action, up roughly 2.5% and extending a powerful start to what traders are calling delivery week.
The move builds on a sharp Tuesday rally that saw $TSLA jump about 10% from a $379.71 close, and it puts the stock firmly back above the $400 mark that has become a psychological line in the sand for both bulls and bears.
The Move So Far
As of midday trading, $TSLA changed hands near $427, a gain of roughly 2.5% on the session and up more than 12% across just two days. Volume has been heavy as institutions reposition ahead of Thursday's numbers, and the stock has spent the session comfortably in the green even as the broader Nasdaq drifted.
The rally has a clear catalyst on the calendar. Tesla is scheduled to report its second-quarter production and delivery figures on July 2, and expectations have been climbing. Wall Street's official 406,024-vehicle consensus represents a 12% sequential jump from the first quarter, and several desks think even that bar is conservative.
Why Tesla Is Rising
Three threads are pulling in the same direction. First, delivery optimism: Goldman Sachs recently lifted its Q2 estimate to 420,000 units, and traders tend to buy Tesla into strong delivery setups. Second, spillover enthusiasm from the newly public SpaceX, where analysts have started rolling out bullish coverage and where talk of an eventual Tesla-SpaceX combination has re-energized Musk-focused investors.
Third, and perhaps most telling, the market shrugged off a fresh bearish call. "Big Short" investor Michael Burry disclosed a new short against Tesla at $416.22, tacked onto a basket of semiconductor bets, according to Electrek. Burry did not disclose the size or structure of the position, and $TSLA promptly climbed past his entry price — a reminder of how often shorting this stock has punished the brave.
The Market Data
At around $427, $TSLA carries a market capitalization near $1.55 trillion, with the shares trading in an intraday band of roughly $406 to $427 and holding well within a 52-week range of $288.77 to $498.83. Traders can track live quotes on Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, WSJ, and Nasdaq. Fellow Musk company SpaceX ($SPCX) traded softer on the day, near $167, as the two Musk tickers increasingly move on their own storylines.
Looking Ahead
The real test arrives Thursday morning, when Tesla publishes hard delivery numbers that will either validate the run or invite profit-taking. With the official earnings call set for July 22 and a busy second-half product cadence ahead — from Cybercab scaling to energy-storage records — the stock enters the report with momentum on its side. For now, the tape is doing what it has done for years: rewarding conviction and testing the shorts.
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