• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    The S&P500 index doesn’t speculate about whether a company’s stock is over- or underpriced. It’s a market-cap-weighted index, meaning the weight of companies like Tesla is based on their market value, not an estimation of their future performance. Speculating about whether a stock is overvalued is something actively managed funds do, but the S&P500 is designed to passively reflect the largest U.S. companies based on size.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      • Minimum Market Capitalization of $8.2 billion
      • Structured as Corporation Based in the U.S. with Common Stock in Capitalization
      • Listed on an Eligible U.S. Exchange (e.g. NYSE, NASDAQ)
      • Positive Reported Earnings in the Most Recent Quarter and on a Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) basis – i.e. the Sum of the Most Recent Historical Four Quarters

      This last one is interesting. Large companies with very risky cash flows are excluded from the S&P 500

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        These are the requirements you need to fulfill before a board of investors decide. I don’t think they need to have anything else than “We don’t like you anymore” to get rid off it.

        But yeah, October the 23rd will be an exciting day.

        On a different note, musk said it himself that only a fascist takeover of trump can spare him from jail, so even he knows he and his company is cooked, if laws finally catch up to him.