NEW YORK — Shares of Elon Musk's two public champions are holding firm heading into a pivotal week, with SpaceX — NASDAQ: SPCX — and Tesla — NASDAQ: TSLA — both drawing buyers who are looking past day-to-day noise toward a dense slate of catalysts. A history-making Starship flight and a factory being retooled around the Cybercab have given the bulls plenty to point at.
Two Stocks, One Thesis
The common thread tying $SPCX and $TSLA together is autonomy and recurring revenue — rockets that fly, land and fly again, and cars that drive themselves and earn by the mile. SpaceX, which trades on the Nasdaq as $SPCX and now includes xAI following their merger, carries a growth story built on Starlink's subscriber base, a widening launch cadence and an AI arm compounding inside the same ticker. Tesla's case rests on its robotaxi ramp and the software margins that come with it. Neuralink and The Boring Company remain privately held, with no public ticker.
Both narratives got fresh fuel this week. SpaceX is targeting Starship Flight 15 for Friday, aiming to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the ship for the first time — a milestone that, if it lands, reinforces the reusability math underpinning the company's climb toward a $100 billion revenue run rate. Tesla, meanwhile, is winding down the Cybertruck to clear Gigafactory Texas for Cybercab output, a bet on the vehicle Musk says will anchor its next decade.
Where the Tape Stands
As of midday Monday, $TSLA was changing hands near $452, up about 1.3% on the session and holding within a 52-week range of roughly $212 to $489. $SPCX traded around $301, up close to 0.9%, in a 52-week band of about $180 to $332 since its debut. The broader tape was mixed, with the tech-heavy $QQQ little changed and AI bellwether $NVDA firm, leaving Musk's names to trade on their own stories rather than the index.
Live quotes are easy to confirm: $TSLA on Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, WSJ and Nasdaq; and $SPCX on Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, WSJ and Nasdaq.
The Catalyst Calendar
For $SPCX, the near-term swing factor is execution: a clean double catch on Friday would be the kind of visible proof point that re-rates a reusability story, and Starlink's expanding direct-to-cell and spectrum footprint keeps widening the subscriber funnel. For $TSLA, the Cybercab ramp and Full Self-Driving adoption are the levers, with a lighter, cheaper robotaxi improving per-mile economics across a fleet meant to scale into the millions.
Neither stock is cheap, and both will stay volatile — but the setup rewards patience. As Teslarati reported, Musk's companies have shrugged off recent post-election market swings, and the long-term autonomy-and-recurring-revenue trajectory is the number investors keep coming back to. With a historic launch days away and a factory reorganizing around its next flagship, the week ahead could hand the bulls exactly the catalysts they have been waiting for.
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