Hey everybody Rob Mower here and today we are talking more about Tesla stock which continues to run we have updated analyst notes from Credit Suisse and

then we have Goldman Sachs initiating coverage on the stock and then we also have another

third row Tesla podcast interview to discuss with Elon Musk and Sandy Monroe.

We'll start first with the stock which despite falling towards the end of the day today

did finish up another 9% to $709.89 that compared to the NASDAQ up about 4% and then in the after-hour

session today Tesla up another $36 to 746.50.

Obviously we went through a lot of reasons for the strength in the stock yesterday, but we have a couple

more to add today.

Before the markets opened on Tuesday, Credit Suisse analyst Dan Levy, upgraded Tesla from Underperform to Neutral with a $580 price target up from his previous target of $450 per share.

We've been talking recently about how Tesla's competitive advantage is actually improving with this macro

environment situation, and that was a factor that Levy called out in his note, saying that Tesla

now, quote, competitively has more advantage in the transition to electric vehicles as

coronavirus disruption will make it more difficult for legacy automakers

to balance the long-term shift to electric vehicles in the face of near-term cycle

disruption." End quote.

So obviously that is a thesis that I agree with.

I mean, if we look at the other automakers' actions in a pretty strong macro

environment the last few years, even in that environment

they've been extremely hesitant to fully pursue a the last year we've talked about it a lot of

been extremely hesitant to fully pursue electric vehicles and to make those

investments and last year we talked about it a lot we've already seen really

poor financial performances from a lot of other automakers, a lot of that due to emissions

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