shares of twitter inc bounced tuesday but stayed below where he purchased his 731 million share stake earlier this year the stock twtr climbed 52 in afternoon trading on monday the stock had plunged 113 to a fourmonth closing low of 3265 after elon musk who is chief executive officer of electric vehicle maker tesla inc tsla and spacetransportation company spacex said he was terminating the merger agreement with the socialmedia company in a 13d filing with the securities and exchange commission on april 5 musk disclosed the prices he paid from jan 31 2022 to april 1 to accumulate his 96 stake based on a marketwatch calculation of the disclosed data musk bought his 73115038 twitter shares at a weightedaverage price of 36157 with the stock trading 1817 or 50 below that price musk would be losing about 13285 million on his twitter stake that’s a far cry from what he was making on this stake as of april 25 was the day twitter agreed to be acquired by musk for 5420 a share at the day’s closing price of 5170 musk’s twitter stake was worth 114 billion more than what he paid for it but keep in mind the twitter buyout deal comes with a 1 billion breakup fee that could be paid by either twitter to musk or by musk to twitter if the deal actually falls through and twitter hasn’t show any sign that it will accept musk’s termination of the deal also read twitter elon musk’s attempt to terminate the deal ‘is invalid and wrongful’ twitter’s stock has dropped 206 year to date while tesla shares have tumbled 340 and the sp 500 index spx has declined 195