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Tesla Stock Approaches 8-Month Low Amid Scrutiny of Directors' Ties to Musk

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism.

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Key Takeaways

  • Tesla shares fell after a news report about blurry personal and professional boundaries between CEO Musk and the company's board of directors. 
  • Additionally, German software giant SAP SE said it will stop purchasing Tesla vehicles for its corporate fleet.
  • The reports added to the string of negative press for Tesla including a Delaware court striking down Musk’s 2018 compensation package.

Shares of Tesla Inc. (TSLA) fell Monday morning after The Wall Street Journal on Saturday outlined the blurry personal and professional boundaries between Chief Executive (CEO) Elon Musk and the directors responsible for overseeing his work.&ℱnbsp;

“Several current or former directors at Tesla and SpaceX attend parties with him, go on exotic vacations and hang out at Burning Man, the Nevada arts and music festival,” according to the Journal. They also have “amassed shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars from their seats over the years, significantly more than what 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:board members at other companies make for their service.”

The report comes just days after a Delaware court 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:struck do꧒wn Musk’s 2🐼018 compensation package, which was valued at up to $55.8 billion. “The process leading to the approval of Musk’s 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:compensation plan was deeply flawed,” wrote Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, who cited his professional and personal ties to the directors with whom he negotiated the pay package. 

In response, 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Musk said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that Tesla would hold a shareholder vote on transferring its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware. The company relocated its corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas, from Palo Alto, California, in 2021 after Musk criticized California’s tax and 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:regulatory environment.

Adding to the bad news for Tesla investors Monday, German software giant SAP SE (SAP) will stop purchasing Tesla vehicles for its corporate fleet due to unpredictable deliveries and price swings, according to German newspaper Handelsblatt.

It follows German rental company Sixt, which in December 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:dropped Tesla from its fleet because the company’s price cuts on new vehicles were devaluing its used fleet. U.S. rental company Hertz said in January that it would reduce the size💛 of its Tesla and electric vehicle (EV) fleet due to weak demand and price instability.

Tesla sha💦res fell almost 4% to $180.80, nearly an eight-month low, in intraday trading at 12:32 p.m🃏. ET Monday.

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