Are Tesla and CrowdStrike Signaling the End of the Growth Stock Bull Market?

Investors have bid the stock market to all-time highs, and even amid some concerns from market participants about the sustainability of the gains they've seen, Monday's numbers remained narrowly mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) managed to post a gain of 26 points to 36,126 as of 1 p.m. EST. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) gave back 2 points to 4,681, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) fell a slightly more substantial 43 points to 15,818.

Over the past year, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) have performed exceptionally well. The electric vehicle (EV) maker has tripled in value between last November and earlier this month, while the cybersecurity specialist has more than doubled. Yet both stocks have seen double-digit percentage pullbacks in the past couple of weeks, and the downward pressure continued on Monday. Below, we'll look at what's affecting Tesla and CrowdStrike and what it means going forward for shareholders.

Shares of Tesla were down another 4% on Monday. That was enough to send the share price below $1,000 and the market capitalization of the entire company below the $1 trillion mark.

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