Ron Baron, founder of Baron Capital.
Anjali Sundaram | CNBC
The billionaire investor Ron Baron is with Elon Musk's Tesla even in view of the dramatic sale. The share fell by 15%on Monday, the largest one -day loss since September 2020.
“I can't believe how cheap they are, things we look at,” said Baron on Tuesday in CNBCS “Squawk Box”. “I thought we would do four times in the next 10 years. I think we'll do more than that of these prices.”
The Baron Capital Chair and CEO for the first time invested 400 million US dollars in Tesla between 2014 and 2016, and this early bed deserves billions of dollars when the electric vehicle company received the mainstream acceptance. Tesla made up 12% of the total portfolio of Baron in various funds at the end of 2024.
The Tesla shares have had an important role in the second Trump White House since its ride on a roller coaster ride to Washington, DC. Tesla has just suffered a seventh loss in a row that has been the longest weekly decline since his debut at Nasdaq in 2010.
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Baron Capital moved his Tesla position in the second quarter of last year last year because the holding company had grown too big in its portfolio. Baron swore that his personal Tesla shares would be the last one he would touch in relation to portfolio management.
“I'm the last in, I will be the last. So I will not sell a single share personally until I sell all stocks for customers, and I did that,” he said.
On Monday, Musk admitted that he headed his business “with great difficulty” when he took on the role of the direction of Trump's Ministry of Department for Government Efficiency, which deals with a broad, controversy efforts to reduce the Federal Government's expenditure and the Slash employee at dozens of agencies.
“I would hope that he would be a little less visible, but he has the feeling that he will do things like this,” Baron said about the 53-year-old musk. “He is now more charged with regard to his business than ever before.”