纽约(美国有线电视新闻网商业)埃隆马斯克在过去两个月通过出售特斯拉股票收集的数十亿美元做什么?
他似乎有可能,甚至有可能将至少一部分资金投入到他担任首席执行官和主要股东的另一家公司 SpaceX 中。
自 11 月 8 日以来,他出售 164 亿美元特斯拉股票的大部分收益将用于支付估计 110 亿美元的联邦税单,这使他有超过 50 亿美元可以做任何他认为合适的事情。
即使他最终向加利福尼亚州支付了 20 亿美元的额外所得税,特斯拉在一年中的大部分时间都在那里,当时他获得了他现在欠税的选择权,马斯克将留下一个窝蛋超过 30 亿美元。他最近将自己的住所和特斯拉的公司总部都搬到了得克萨斯州,该州的州所得税为零,因此他不太可能必须向加利福尼亚支付尽可能高的税款。
也许更有说服力:文件中披露了销售细节的一些脚注,以及最近两次向 SpaceX 注入股权的时间,增加了马斯克将其部分财富从公开交易的特斯拉 (TSLA) 转移到特斯拉股票的可能性。他的私人控股公司SpaceX。
这些交易对于美国最知名的首席执行官马斯克来说是独一无二的。这是特斯拉 12 年来第一次公开表示他持有出售该公司股票的现金,而不是只出售足够支付即将到来的税款的股票。
他的时机很好,因为在特斯拉在市场上表现良好的时候,销售释放了现金,成为历史上第六家价值 1 万亿美元的公司,并将马斯克本人提升到地球上最富有的人的地位.而这正是在他的另一家知名公司 SpaceX 进入市场筹集数亿现金以资助其雄心勃勃的目标之际。这两个事实,以及各种文件中披露的细节,无疑增加了他向 SpaceX 注入资金的可能性。
SpaceX 和特斯拉 (TSLA) 都没有回应有关马斯克如何使用其股票销售收益的评论请求。
Here's what Elon Musk is likely to do with those billions of dollars in stock sales
New York (CNN Business)What's Elon Musk doing with the billions he's collected in the past two months from selling shares in Tesla?
It seems possible, maybe even likely, that he's put at least some of the money into SpaceX, the other company of which he is CEO and primary shareholder.
Most of the proceeds from his $16.4 billion in Tesla stock sales since November 8 will go to pay an estimated $11 billion federal tax bill, leaving him with more than $5 billion to do whatever he sees fit.
Even if he ends up paying $2 billion in additional income tax to the state of California, where Tesla was based for most of the year when he was granted the options on which he will now owe taxes, Musk will be left with a nest egg of more than $3 billion. And his recent moves of both his own residence and Tesla's corporate headquarters to Texas, with its zero state income tax, makes it unlikely he'll have to pay the maximum possible tax to California.
Perhaps more telling: Some footnotes in the filing disclosing details of the sales, along with the timing of the last two equity infusions into SpaceX, raise the possibility that Musk is shifting some of his wealth from publicly-traded Tesla (TSLA) into shares of his privately-held company SpaceX.
Those trades are unique for Musk, the nation's highest profile CEO. It's the first time in the 12 years that Tesla has been public that he's held onto cash from the sale of that company's shares, rather than selling only enough stock to pay looming tax bills.
His timing is good, as the sales free up cash at a time when Tesla is doing very well in the market, becoming the sixth company in history to be worth $1 trillion, and lifting Musk himself to the status of the richest person on the planet. And it's being done at a time when his other high profile company, SpaceX, is out in the market raising hundreds of millions in cash to fund its ambitious goals. Those two facts, along with details disclosed in the various filings, certainly raise the possibility that he's pumping money into SpaceX.
Neither SpaceX nor Tesla (TSLA) responded to requests for comments about how Musk is using the proceeds of his stock sales.