Shares of electric-car maker Tesla closed above $420 on Tuesday — more than a year after tweeting about that mythical, magical number got CEO Elon Musk in trouble with securities regulators.
Tesla closed at $425.25 a share at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, after breaching the $420 mark in intraday trading on Monday. The new high brings the company's total stock market value to $76.6 billion.
In a tweet Monday, Musk crowed about the brief intraday breach: "Whoa ... the stock is so high lol," the chief executive wrote, with a wink to "420," a classic reference to marijuana.
The symbolism of the $420-a-share figure for Tesla goes back 16 months. In August 2018, Musk tweeted, "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured," sending the company's stock soaring. It turned out, though, that he did not have funding secured, and that he chose the $420 figure in a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and also because he "thought his girlfriend 'would find it funny.
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