Image from MarketBeat Media, LLC. Key Points Strong Tower Advisory Services raised its Tesla stake by 8.7% in Q3 to 37,033 shares (an additional 2,972 shares), worth about $16.47 million and representing roughly 3.1% of the firm's portfolio (its 9th largest holding). U.S. regulators opened a defect petition covering about 179,000 Model 3 vehicles over hidden/unlabeled mechanical emergency door releases, the biggest immediate regulatory risk pressuring Tesla sentiment. Analyst views are mixed—several firms have lifted price targets (e.g., Canaccord to $551, Deutsche to $500) but MarketBeat's consensus is a Hold with a $414.50 target; concurrently insiders (CFO Vaibhav Taneja and director Kimbal Musk) sold shares and institutional ownership stands at about 66.2%. Is Tesla Overvalued? 2 Reasons It Might Be a Bargain In other news, CFO Vaibhav Taneja sold 2,637 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, December 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $443.93, for a total transaction of $1,170,643.41. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 13,757 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,107,145.01. This represents a 16.09% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Kimbal Musk sold 56,820 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $450.66, for a total value of $25,606,501.20. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 1,391,615 shares in the company, valued at $627,145,215.90. This represents a 3.92% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. 19.90% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders. Tesla Stock Performance Shares of TSLA stock opened at $484.35 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a current ratio of 2.07 and a quick ratio of 1.67. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $443.14 and a 200-day moving average of $384.62. Tesla, Inc. has a one year low of $214.25 and a one year high of $498.83. The company has a market cap of $1.61 trillion, a P/E ratio of 322.90, a P/E/G ratio of 12.27 and a beta of 1.87. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 23rd. The electric vehicle producer reported $0.50 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.48 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $28.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $24.98 billion. Tesla had a net margin of 5.51% and a return on equity of 6.61%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 11.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.72 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that Tesla, Inc. will post 2.56 EPS for the current fiscal year. About Tesla