Analyst fires back after Elon Musk shut him down in Tesla earnings call

The drama is heating up after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called a bunch of analysts’ questions boring.

Well, this certainly isn’t boring: One of the analysts who asked about the electric car maker’s Model 3 reservations at last week’s unhinged earnings call wrote an open letter to Musk defending his “boneheaded” question. Musk had refused to answer it and moved along to several questions from Galileo Russell, who has a YouTube channel and is a retail investor.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Joseph Spak, who wrote the letter, said that he’s still all about Tesla, but, look, he’s supposed to ask questions: “My responsibility is to be well informed when I discuss Tesla’s stock with current and potential investors. A financial results call is an opportunity for Wall Street to re-calibrate our expectations.” Read more…

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