Oprah Goes Green With New Tesla Model S - Should We Expect a Stock Surge?

It appears that Tesla Motors, the youngest publicly traded US automaker and also the greenest, might get what the media analysts refer to as the “Oprah Bump” – the most famous television hosts in history just purchased a Tesla Model S electric limousine.

Tesla has been the darling of investors for quite some time now and having Oprah buy one of their cars will surely be great news for the Wall Street bunch. And maybe she was persuaded by the latest Consumer Reports review of the latest Model S electric saloon, which “initially scored 103 in the Consumer Reports’ rating system, which by definition doesn’t go past 100… The car set a new benchmark, so we had to make changes to our scoring account for it,” commented the highly praised magazine. And we’re surely rooting for Oprah to make the same gesture she made back in the day when she awarded her audience with a new Pontiac G6 – for free.
 

Agent009 - 9/2/2015 2:41:23 PM

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The "Oprah effect" is well known. Just a mention and sales surge for any product she talks about.

mre30 - 9/2/2015 5:13:27 PM

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Gee, I'm not sure that the limited pool of automotive consumers who are in the market for a $100,000 luxury vehicle (and who are willing to put up the with compromises required for owning/operating an electric vehicle) will be swayed into a large discretionary purchase because Oprah has one. I suspect there will be no "Oprah Effect" with Tesla.

MDarringer - 9/2/2015 8:44:45 PM

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Oprah, the less-bee-yun who cannot come out of the closet, gave up her TV show but still craves the spotlight.

So the old cow buys a Tesla.

She is as passe as Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston were when then died...yet she lives. She is another Whoopi Goldberg i.e. an African-American woman that literally no one lends credence to.

Steadman--the beard--is where?

w222 - 9/3/2015 12:43:28 PM

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Oprah's audience base probably make less than half of the price of the model S. She can make people flock to the grocery store to buy the latest organic melons but not a car.

skytop - 9/6/2015 7:33:27 PM

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No ones give a rat's azz what this washed up old black hag does.