Elon Musk Sells Almost $4B In Tesla Inventory After Committing To Purchase Twitter For $44B – Deadline

Elon Musk has bought practically $4 billion value of Tesla inventory within the lower than two weeks since he closed the deal to purchase Twitter. That’s in accordance with CNBC, citing SEC filings.

Musk, who bought the troubled social media platform on October 27 for $44 billion, mentioned that he was carried out promoting roughly $7 billion in Tesla to fund the sale in August.

Musk’s function for the more moderen selloff has not been disclosed however, in contrast to 2021 when he bought $22 billion value of the then-surging Tesla, Tesla shares are off 46% this yr, so his $3.95 billion choice unlikely to be about profit-taking.

Musk admitted late final week that Twitter was shedding hundreds of thousands a day and mentioned that was among the many causes he selected to chop its workforce roughly in half.

“Concerning Twitter’s discount in drive, sadly there isn’t any selection when the corporate is shedding over $4M/day,” wrote Musk late Friday afternoon. Earlier within the day, the self-proclaimed “Twitter Grievance Hotline Operator” pegged the financial savings from the transfer at $400 million a yr.

Along with pouring billions of his personal capital into taking Twitter non-public, the Tesla CEO relied on Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia to finance the deal. The Saudi prince’s $1.9 billion funding makes him the social media firm’s second-largest shareholder, whilst simply weeks earlier than the nation had sentenced a U.S. citizen visiting the dominion to 16 years in jail for tweets essential of the regime there.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) has referred to as for an investigation into the nationwide safety implications of Saudi Arabia’s stake in Twitter.