特斯拉周二表示，它希望通过股票发行筹集高达50亿美元的资本。公告是在首席执行官的同一天发布的埃隆·马斯克说他已经把家从加利福尼亚搬到了德克萨斯州。
此次售股是这家电动汽车和太阳能电池板公司三个月来的第二次售股。9月，特斯拉表示，仅在5比1股权分置生效一天后，它就计划出售价值高达50亿美元的普通股。
马斯克在周二接受《华尔街日报》采访时说，他已经搬到了德克萨斯州，他说加州认为创新者是理所当然的。
他也可能搬家，因为德克萨斯州没有所得税。马斯克在特斯拉18%的股份价值数十亿。
报纸没有说他在得克萨斯州搬到了哪里，但它可能靠近奥斯汀，特斯拉正在那里建一座新工厂。另一家马斯克领导的公司SpaceX在附近有业务。马斯克告诉该报，他已经为此努力了几个月。
今年早些时候，马斯克曾威胁要将特斯拉在加州帕洛阿尔托的总部和未来的制造厂迁至德克萨斯州，当时他与县官员就特斯拉在旧金山湾区的工厂是否应该因冠状病毒限制而关闭发生了高调的口角。
关于股票发行，特斯拉公司在一份监管文件中表示，销售将“不时”进行。该股票将通过10家不同的经纪公司出售，每家公司将获得0.25%的佣金。
韦德布什的丹尼尔·艾夫斯(Daniel Ives)在一份客户报告中表示，鉴于该公司股票的强劲反弹以及投资者对电动汽车市场的浓厚兴趣，目前的举措是有意义的。
特斯拉的股票今年暴涨，涨幅超过600%。周二收于649.88美元，上涨1.3%。
该公司今年不得不为一些大额资本支出融资，因为它将在德国和奥斯汀以外的地方建造一家新工厂。它还准备在明年的某个时候推出新的“网络卡车”皮卡和半挂车。
该公司公布7月至9月净利润为3.31亿美元，连续第五个季度盈利。但与前几个季度一样，该公司严重依赖向其他汽车制造商出售电动汽车信贷获得的3.97亿美元，以满足政府的燃油经济性和污染法规。
特斯拉明年初公布第四季度收益时，可能会公布第一个全年利润。
Tesla said Tuesday it is looking to raise up to $5 billion in capital through a stock offering. The announcement came on the same day CEOElon Musksaid he has moved his home to Texas from California.
The stock sale is the second for the electric-vehicle and solar-panel company in three months. In September, Tesla said it planned to sell up to $5 billion worth of common shares just one day after a 5-for-1 stock split took effect.
Musk told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Tuesday that he has moved to Texas, saying that California has taken innovators for granted.
He also could be moving because Texas has no income tax. Musk's 18% stake in Tesla is worth billions.
The newspaper didn't say where he had moved in Texas, but it's likely to be close to Austin, where Tesla is building a new factory. SpaceX, another Musk-led company, has operations nearby. Musk told the newspaper he’s been working on the move for months.
Musk had threatened to relocate Tesla's Palo Alto, California, headquarters and future manufacturing to Texas earlier this year during a high-profile spat with county officials over whether Tesla's San Francisco Bay Area factory should stay closed due to coronavirus restrictions.
On the stock offering, Tesla Inc. said in a regulatory filing that the sales would be made “from time to time." The stock will be sold through 10 different brokerage houses, and each will get up to a 0.25% commission.
Wedbush's Daniel Ives said in a client note that the current move makes sense given the strong rally in the company's shares and investors' keen interest in the electric vehicle market.
Tesla's stock has exploded this year, rising more than 600%. It closed Tuesday up 1.3% at $649.88.
The company has to finance some big-ticket capital spending this year because it’s building a new factory in Germany and outside of Austin. It’s also gearing up to roll out its new “Cybertruck” pickup and a semi sometime next year.
The company posted a $331 million net profit for the July through September period, its fifth straight quarter of profitability. But as in previous quarters, the company relied heavily on $397 million it earned from selling electric vehicle credits to other automakers so they can meet government fuel economy and pollution regulations.
Tesla could post its first full-year profit when it reports fourth-quarter earnings early next year.
