At that time, data, reports, articles and advice came primarily from periodicals (including specialty items like charts and stock data), company reports, newsletters and brokerage firm publications. An example of the “did not” was in 1996 when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan voiced his “irrational exuberance” concern about the stock market. Chris Isidore’s reliance on only one measure -market capitalization- is a huge, amateurish mistake in judging the status of a company. Therefore, the proper comparison is GM’s 2020-adjusted market capitalization of $126 B, over 45% higher than Tesla’s $86.5 B. Ford’s adjusted market capitalization goes from $76.1B to $118.5B, 37% higher than Tesla.

Source: Forbes January 19, 2020 08:03 UTC