{"id":27681,"date":"2025-05-13T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27681"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:24:30","slug":"tesla-board-chair-robyn-denholm-made-198-million-selling-stock-as-profit-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27681","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm Made $198 Million Selling Stock as Profit Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robyn Denholm sold Tesla stock in recent months while Elon Musk, the chief executive she oversees, worked for President Trump and alienated many car buyers.<\/p>\n

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In March, after a steep decline in Tesla\u2019s share price, Elon Musk told employees, \u201cHang on to your stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chair of Tesla\u2019s board, Robyn Denholm, has not heeded his advice. Ms. Denholm has made $198 million in the past six months selling Tesla stock that she earned for serving on the board, according to a New York Times analysis of securities filings.<\/p>\n

That brings her total profit on the sale of Tesla stock to more than $530 million since becoming the board\u2019s leader in late 2018, far more than her peers have made at the most valuable U.S. companies during that time, the analysis shows.<\/p>\n

The share sales raise questions about Ms. Denholm\u2019s confidence in Tesla\u2019s prospects. Her most recent sales, executed under a prearranged trading plan filed last summer, came as Mr. Musk, the company\u2019s chief executive, took a time-consuming role in the Trump administration. Tesla\u2019s car sales have plunged partly because Mr. Musk\u2019s political activities have turned off some car buyers. The company\u2019s quarterly profit fell in the first three months of 2025 to its lowest level in four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Denholm earned the right to buy those shares, what are known as stock options, for serving on the board, a part-time position. Tesla granted the options between 2014 and 2020, and its share price has soared since then, giving Ms. Denholm has the right to buy shares for a lot less than their current price. Last week, for example, she bought more than 112,000 shares for $24.73 apiece and sold them the same day for more than $270.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Robyn Denholm filed a stock sale plan soon after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president. The first sale came the week after Mr. Trump was elected.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Robyn Denholm sold Tesla stock in recent months while Elon Musk, the chief executive she oversees, worked for President Trump and alienated many car buyers.In March, after a steep decline in Tesla\u2019s share price, Elon Musk told employees, \u201cHang on to your stock.\u201dThe chair of Tesla\u2019s board, Robyn Denholm, has not heeded his advice. Ms. Denholm has made $198 million in the past six months selling Tesla stock that she earned for serving on the board, according to a New York Times analysis of securities filings.That brings her total profit on the sale of Tesla stock to more than $530 million since becoming the board\u2019s leader in late 2018, far more than her peers have made at the most valuable U.S. companies during that time, the analysis shows.The share sales raise questions about Ms. Denholm\u2019s confidence in Tesla\u2019s prospects. Her most recent sales, executed under a prearranged trading plan filed last summer, came as Mr. Musk, the company\u2019s chief executive, took a time-consuming role in the Trump administration. Tesla\u2019s car sales have plunged partly because Mr. Musk\u2019s political activities have turned off some car buyers. The company\u2019s quarterly profit fell in the first three months of 2025 to its lowest level in four years.Ms. Denholm earned the right to buy those shares, what are known as stock options, for serving on the board, a part-time position. Tesla granted the options between 2014 and 2020, and its share price has soared since then, giving Ms. Denholm has the right to buy shares for a lot less than their current price. Last week, for example, she bought more than 112,000 shares for $24.73 apiece and sold them the same day for more than $270.Stock Sales Aligned With Surging Share PricesRobyn Denholm filed a stock sale plan soon after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president. The first sale came the week after Mr. Trump was elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27683,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27684,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27681\/revisions\/27684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}