New ceo. Largely on the and, mobility tech is all the rage and uber takes one more step to becoming a onestop shop for all of your transportation needs. Heavyweight Technology Companies led a rebound. Andanies like salesforce alphabet, fresh record highs. That means that the smallcap Technology Companies are looking relatively cheap on a valuation basis. Joining us, bloomberg across asset reporter sarah ponczek. Really i am showing, now looking like some of these smallcap Tech Companies look cheap relative to some of those big things. You are looking at the forward price to earnings ratio the s p p 500 versus 600 for both technology sectors. 600, as you can see, trading at a discount, at the lowest level since 2001. I will say that we posed this chart to Jonathan Golub of Credit Suisse about an hour ago and he said, i would not be too quick to count out these large Tech Companies. , but theaw the rally earnings picture for smallcap is likely to be a bit rockier. At the same time, many
Like Companies Like facebook and apple. Regulation, legal and legislative hurdles continue for technology, especially for overseas apps like tictoc, we will hear from Marsha Blackburn on how much more needs to be done. We begin this hour with tesla, its stock has been on a runaway rally for the latter part of the year, last year we saw shares reaching 420. Analysts recently raised his price target by 100 to 370. We are going to discuss whether tesla turnaround is working. You look backif at the last six months, it has been massively impressive, what musk has been able to do in terms of turning this around, have a base case of 370, at bulky its to 600. If they are able to execute over the next quarter to this china thesis, and theres an upward to trajectory, you could see it go higher. This gets us to a base case, i think both cases have 600, and a lot that rests on china. I have spoken to a few theral bearish analysts in last few weeks, they are concerned about demand in china. Do we h
The first model 3 built in china rolling off the Assembly Line and elon musk tells his employees quote, pay no attention to the stock price, unquote. Im Ashley Webster in for stuart. Varney company about to begin. Ashley lets take a look at the gains for the major averages this year. Wow, oh, wow. The nasdaq, 35 . The dow, 22 . The s p, a mere 29. 25 . Joining us now, market watcher keith fitzgerald. Fitz, for big gains for next year . What do you say . Why not . Oh, i think weve got all the right things in play. Weve got record consumer confidence, great economics, companies growing. This is a great time to be alive and be an investor. There is always a possibility of shortterm correction but you know what, even a busted clock is right twice a day. Ashley more and more of those socalled experts are calling for that correction. Ten, maybe 20 . Whats going to trigger that . Well, you know, its the same old stuff. It could be a misplaced headline, could be a misguided escomputers. They s
The nasdaq is the leading indices and oil hitting a threemonth highly after military strikes in the middle east energy is the bestperforming sector today joining us for the hour is josh brown, ceo of Ritholtz Wealth Management josh, obviously seeing a little profit taking here is this a tax situation scenario or is there more to read into about losing steam and sentiment . If you see profit taking on the what penultimate the penultimate is that not an american word as well . It is, we just dont use it as much. And it doesnt sound as good when i say it. It doesnt, sorry when youre seeing profit taking on the second to last day of the year, thats not tax related, but it could be front running what others suspect might be fax related, meaning look at a typical investment portfolio this year, if they own sector etfs, for example, they have a ton of Technology Large cap tech has done unbelievably well this year. Or if they own individual names. If you own apple, youre up almost double. Now
A ceo of ak to security firm. And lyft, peloton, all went public. We will have a recap of it all. Tesla shares said a new record high, 420. Elon musk claimed tesla would go private last year. Earlier today, he tweeted the stock price is so high, lol. Our bloomberg reporter. What is driving it for tesla this time around . Allrter the momentum is about china, taylor. One . 4t, tesla group billion from financing and local banks and much welcome cash injection. That built momentum from last week, where in november, new vehicle registrations for tesla in china hit a five month. Youll remember those vehicles are subject to a 25 import duty. If tesla can get that shanghai run up and running, they can offer vehicles that are more competitive priced, and the unit costs will be lower. They will be able to get deeper into the market in china. That is really where recent momentum has been driving the stock for tesla. Taylor i want to come and show a chart i am showing here inside my terminal. It i