tesla inc is once again worth 1 trillion after chief executive elon musk said he is done selling shares tesla tsla shares roared 75 higher to 100887 wednesday pushing share prices higher than 1000 and the electriccar company’s market capitalization the value of all shares past 1 trillion after first topping that plateau in october tesla fell lower than the mark on dec 13 part of a slide that put the volatile stock into a “bear market” for the third time this year the shares will remain in a bear market until they move 20 higher than their most recent low which would mean a share price of 107993 according to dow jones market data don’t miss tesla is bracing for a busy 2022 with new plants and the cybertruck coming on line but safety probes may rein in its stock the stock’s gains followed musk’s pronouncement in a tuesday interview that he is done selling shares musk had promised to sell 10 of his stake which at the time stood at roughly 170 million shares filings with the securities and exchange commission show that musk has sold about 135 million shares for roughly 14 billion “i sold enough stock to get to around 10 plus the optionexercise stuff and i tried to be extremely literal here” musk said in an interview with the satirical website the babylon bee from barron’s elon musk interview shows that if you thought 2021 couldn’t get weirder you were wrong there could be more sec filings detailing more share sales that have not been publicly posted yet musk has also been exercising options as he sells shares which could actually leave him with more shares than he had when he pledged to sell the shares after asking his followers on twitter inc about the possibility the latest filing as of wednesday’s market close in the us showed musk held 1747 million tesla shares beyond musk’s pronouncement there wasn’t much positive news for tesla on wednesday the national highway traffic safety administration or nhtsa publicly declared it is investigating the company for reportedly installing a videogame into its cars’ touchscreen that drivers can play while actively driving the car adding to two other active investigations into tesla’s “autopilot” and “full self driving” promotions opinion it’s time for elon musk to start telling the truth about autonomous driving tesla is one of only six publicly listed us companies to crest a 1 trillion market cap joining five large tech companies with much higher revenue and profit totals google parent company alphabet inc googl goog  amazoncom inc amzn  apple inc aapl  microsoft corp msft and facebook parent company meta platforms inc fb all but facebook currently are worth more than 1 trillion with apple and microsoft topping 2 trillion tesla shares have increased 42 so far this year as the sp 500 index spx has gained 238