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Volkswagen’s Emergence as the Foil to Tesla in Five Stock Charts

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Volkswagen’s Emergence as the Foil to Tesla in Five Stock Charts

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Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess made a series of announcements on his strategy to beat his California-based rival, emulating his counterpart at Tesla, Elon Musk. In return, VW common shares picked up a bit of Tesla’s cult status, soaring 60% so far this month.</p>\n<p>Here are five charts that tell the story:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8c097807fb24e299db6d7d628ca43ea9\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>With the gain came a stark disconnect between the two share classes: the common, which carries voting rights, and the preferred, which doesn’t. The common soared far more than the more actively traded preferred, so that at <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> point a common share fetched 327.20 euros while a preferred was priced at only 223.05 euros. A gap that wide -- for two securities that basically convey the same economic stake in the company -- hasn’t been seen since Porsche SE’s ill-fated effort to take over VW in 2008 sparked massive purchases of the common stock.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7144368dc9cbcde97ae7093122af9543\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>One explanation is that U.S. retail investors were jazzed by the EV prospects and poured money into VW without understanding the difference between the two classes. U.S.-traded depositary receipts are available for both, and ADRs linked to the more illiquid common shares have been far more active than those linked to preferred shares.</p>\n<p>Normally, arbitrageurs would close the gap by selling short the common and buying the preferred, but that trade is hard to implement, given that Porsche and two other big investors hold more than 90% of the common shares, making them difficult to borrow. And that 2008 short squeeze is always in the back of traders’ minds.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d8e21677fe2d0a6cdcab3c1f85f6e266\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>Sell-side analysts tracked by Bloomberg factored the new prospects for the company’s EV plans into their models, leading to the average price target rising alongside shares. Yet for the moment only about 7.7% upside is left in the preferred stock if the 12-month average target is any guide. Hence, no surprise that the number of analysts rating the stock a buy is right where it was when the rally began.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/eae3d5a18f601b032a1ee02e6881968e\" tg-width=\"1200\" tg-height=\"675\"></p>\n<p>VW is a giant compared to Tesla when it comes to sales volume. The German carmaker sold more than 9 million cars last year versus just half a million for Tesla. 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Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess made a series of announcements on his strategy to beat his California-based rival, emulating his counterpart at Tesla, Elon Musk. In return, VW common shares picked up a bit of Tesla’s cult status, soaring 60% so far this month.\nHere are five charts that tell the story:\n\nWith the gain came a stark disconnect between the two share classes: the common, which carries voting rights, and the preferred, which doesn’t. The common soared far more than the more actively traded preferred, so that at one point a common share fetched 327.20 euros while a preferred was priced at only 223.05 euros. 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