Why Is Everyone Talking About Tesla Stock?

You can hardly open a newspaper these days without running across a few Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) headlines. The stock also tends to move on the latest news, either falling or jumping by 5% or more on an almost daily basis.

So why are investors, journalists, analysts, and the man on the street so interested in the electric car company? These five details may not tell the whole story, but they do explain a lot about Tesla's unique place in the spotlight.

Stocks that produce huge gains often attract a lot of public attention. In some cases, that attention crystallizes into uncritical fandom.

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