Bloomberg agency began this week with a message that Tesla achieved a capitalization of $ 50.9 billion, which allows it to be considered the most expensive automaker in Server America - among other things, regularly showing losses and generating debts, unlike the lagging "labor veterans" General Motors and Ford. In the global rating of automakers Tesla is now breathing in the back of the sixth-ranked company Honda with a capitalization of $ 52 billion. The most expensive car manufacturer in the world is the Japanese Toyota - its shares in total are estimated at $ 172 billion.
In addition, Bloomberg reports that the Tesla shares, which have grown in price, prompted activists from among investors to demand from the company's management to increase the number of directors who are not related to Elon Musk's kinship or long-standing professional ties.
The board of Tesla directors currently does not only include the brothers Ilona Mask, but also the first persons of two other companies in which he holds large blocks of shares - SpaceX and SolarCity. Now Mask is the largest shareholder of Tesla with 21% of shares, and the presence of people close to him in the directors' minds worries investors, as they are afraid of the so-called "conflict of interests". The higher Tesla's capitalization, the higher the risks involved, so the company's representatives have already promised that the months-long search for new independent directors will soon come to an end, and new faces will appear on Tesla's board of directors.