Why Tesla Stock Dropped on Tuesday

Why Tesla Stock Dropped on Tuesday Rich Smith, The Motley Fool Tue, June 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM GMT+2 2 min read TSLA NVDA Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock tumbled 6%. 1 through 3:15 p. m.

ET Tuesday, one week before Tesla is expected to report its Q2 deliveries number -- and just hours after Swiss megabanker UBS announced it's sticking with only a "neutral" rating on Tesla shares ahead of the report. Image source: Tesla. Missed Nvidia in 2009?

This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.  In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia.  For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia.

  Continue » What UBS thinks about Tesla A "neutral" rating implies that this analyst is giving Tesla a kind of shrug and a pass on its current valuation. But as StreetInsider. com reports, UBS analyst Joseph Spak thinks Tesla's stock price could decline after deliveries are reported.

His price target for the stock, $364, is 10% below Tesla's Monday closing price. (So maybe Spak should really be advising investors to sell Tesla . ) What should investors do with Tesla now?

Why isn't Spak telling investors to sell? For one thing, the analyst is raising estimates for Q2 deliveries from 380,000 electric cars sold to 405,000, representing 5% year-over-year growth. Problem is, even 405,000 units -- if this is the right number -- could still miss consensus forecasts for the quarter, which Spak estimates range from 400,000 to 420,000 (so 410,000 at the midpoint).

This sets up a scenario in which Tesla might do better than Spak expected, but still worse than what most people hoped for in Q2. And this is a scenario that could, in fact, cause Tesla's stock price to decline. All this said, there's still one scenario in which holding Tesla stock might make sense.

Spak points out that the company's Energy Generation and Storage business could report up to 40% sales growth in Q2 -- eight times better than Automotive. Whatever happens with car deliveries next month, considering that Tesla's been earning twice as much on Energy sales as it has on Automotive lately, this could end up making Tesla a winner on earnings day. Missed Nvidia in 2009?

This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. If you'd invested $5,000 then,  you'd be sitting on $2,709,204  today. * Now, for the first time in years, that same  "Total Conviction" signal  is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia.

It's a key player in the $1. 8 trillion space race, and with the stock recently sitting 20% off its highs, the window to get in early is closing fast. Continue » *Stock Advisor returns as of June 22, 2026 Rich Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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