Tesla (TSLA) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Tesla's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
TSLA closed at $362.86 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -0.8% from its 50-day average and -10.0% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established downtrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -13.2%, trailing SPY by 16.3%. It remains 27.3% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -0.8% from its 50-day average and -10.0% from its 200-day average. Over three months, TSLA returned -13.2% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -0.8%
- vs 200-day
- -10.0%
- From 52W high
- -27.3%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
TSLA appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 38 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 26 call-side, 17 put-side and 5 on both lists. The latest session placed its put-side signature #5. Its larger composite score was 2.82, above the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | — | #5 |
| 2026-08-20 | #17 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | — | #5 |
| 2026-08-17 | #8 | — |
| 2026-08-14 | — | #12 |
| 2026-08-12 | #7 | — |
| 2026-08-07 | — | #14 |
| 2026-08-05 | #15 | — |
| 2026-07-31 | — | #11 |
| 2026-07-29 | #13 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.219 calls, 0.344 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-08-21Aug 21: +5.1% on ~1.6x normal volume. No filing, release or analyst action dated to the session; the only headline was a 13F item (Viking Global cutting its stake in Q2), which describes a position as of June 30, not today's trade.
Tesla's turnover tops the unusual-volume list almost any day it moves 3% because of its size, so the flag says less about news than about scale. The broad tape was risk-on (S&P 500 +0.4%, Bitcoin above $75,000) and Tesla also sits in the day's top-5 bearish options flow, so positioning is two-sided. Nothing to attribute.
Source: CNBC: Stock market news for Aug. 21, 2026 ↗Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Tesla position in their latest filing, worth $5.3B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · TSLA | $5.3B | 7.90% | 12.52M | +5.0% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open TSLA Financials →How TSLA trades — the working manual
Tesla combines automotive manufacturing, energy generation and storage, charging and software ambitions. For the stock, deliveries alone are incomplete: pricing, automotive gross margin, factory utilization, energy growth and the timing of new products determine whether unit growth converts into earnings and cash flow.
What can move the tape
- 01Vehicle deliveries, pricing, incentives and factory utilization by region.
- 02Automotive gross margin excluding regulatory credits and the cost of product transitions.
- 03Energy-storage deployments, segment margins and the scaling of non-auto revenue.
- 04Capital spending and execution on new vehicles, manufacturing capacity and software products.
What can fool the read
- 01Demand and pricing can weaken even when industry electric-vehicle adoption rises.
- 02Competition, policy incentives and tariffs can change regional economics quickly.
- 03New products and autonomy claims carry material execution and regulatory uncertainty.
- 04Heavy options activity and narrative shifts can produce moves disconnected from near-term filings.
Tesla triggered 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was TSLA on 2026-08-21: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.7% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported TSLA events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
TSLA stock questions
Is TSLA stock in an uptrend?+
TSLA is classified in the “established downtrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -0.8% from its 50-day average and -10.0% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in TSLA mean?+
Tesla's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the TSLA 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are TSLA's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated TSLA Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no TSLA earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.