Etsy gets into S&P 500, Tesla does not
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[September 05, 2020] By
Noel Randewich
(Reuters) - Shares of Tesla <TSLA.O>
tumbled 7% in extended trade on Friday after the electric car maker was
excluded from a group of companies being added to the S&P 500, among
them Etsy, whose stock market value is less than a 20th of Tesla's.
The decision by S&P Dow Jones Indices is a blow to Tesla investors who
widely expected the company to join the benchmark stock index after a
blockbuster quarterly report in July cleared a major hurdle for its
potential inclusion.
S&P Dow Jones Indices said in a statement it was adding online craft
seller Etsy <ETSY.O>, semiconductor equipment maker Teradyne <TER.O> and
pharmaceutical technology company Catalent <CTLT.N> to the S&P 500,
effective Sept. 21, and removing H&R Block <HRB.N>, Coty <COTY.N> and
Kohls <KSS.N>.
Shares of Etsy jumped 6% in extended trade, Teradyne rose 2%, and
Catalent added 2%.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices senior index analyst Howard Silverblatt declined
to say why Tesla was not added to the S&P 500, which is tracked by index
funds with at least $4.4 trillion in assets.
"The market is continuously changing, and we need to reflect that in our
indices," Silverblatt said.
With a market capitalization over $370 billion, Tesla is one of the most
valuable companies on Wall Street. Even after a 16% drop in its share
price from record highs this week, Tesla remains more valuable than 95%
of the S&P 500's existing components, including Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N>
and Procter & Gamble <PG.N>.
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Etsy, Teradyne and Catalent have a combined stock market value of about $40
billion.
Tesla, which is up nearly 400% so far in 2020, is among the most loved - and
hated - stocks on Wall Street. It is the U.S. stock market’s highest-profile bet
on the rise of renewable energy and the decline of fossil fuels, and Tesla’s
Model 3 sedan has made major inroads among consumers.
Its recent stock gains have been driven by Tesla's unexpectedly strong quarterly
results released in July, as well as by bets that it would be added to the S&P
500, which would trigger massive demand for its shares from index funds that
track the benchmark.
Tesla bears point to looming competition from Porsche <PSHG_p.DE>, General
Motors <GM.N> and other longer-established rivals. They are also skeptical of
Tesla’s corporate governance under Chief Executive Elon Musk, who in 2018 agreed
to pay $20 million and step down as chairman to settle fraud charges.
Short sellers are betting $24 billion that Tesla’s shares will fall, among the
largest short levels on record for a U.S. company, in dollars, according to S3
Partners.
(Reporting by Noel Randewich in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Akanksha
Rana in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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