tesla inc tsla stock has lost a little over 50 yeartodate and it is now on a fourday losing streak ceo elon musk on thursday listed probable reasons for the predicament blaming it mostly on extraneous factors what happened a tesla influencer shared screenshots of tesla vs amazon inc amzn stock chart for the past year showing both materially underperforming tagging the influencer musk chimed in with thoughts on probable reasons why its important musks reasoning could not be farfetched the russiaukraine war has left the energy situation in europe grim as winter approaches europe which relies primarily on natural gas imports from russia is facing a threat to its energy security musk has previously flagged warnings regarding the overheated property market in china that could come crashing down and impact economic growth in a country on which tesla is heavily reliant for production and sales closer home the federal reserve’s successive and aggressive rate hikes have put brakes on economic growth with economists brisk with their recession calls for the new year although musk did not mention any companyspecific issues for the stocks underperformance tesla investors and backers have been highly critical of his twitter acquisition they see the buy as a noise to the electric vehicle maker price action tesla shares ended thursdays session down 034 at 17344 according to benzinga pro data read next advantage elon musk bankers reportedly in talks to replace highinterest twitter debt with tesla margin loans