Lucid Surged Today — Is This EV Stock Your Next Crypto-Like Moonshot?
Lucid Motors just ripped higher — sparking flashbacks to crypto's most explosive rallies.
EVs Meet Digital Asset Energy
The electric vehicle maker's stock surged as traders piled in, echoing the kind of momentum usually reserved for altcoin breakouts. No fundamental news—just pure speculative thrust.
Timing the Charge
Buying after a pump? Risky. But sitting out could mean missing the next leg up if institutional money rotates in. Classic FOMO setup.
Volatility Warning
This isn’t a stablecoin play. Expect swings sharper than a Bitcoin correction. If you can’t handle -20% days, maybe stick with dollar-cost averaging into blue chips.
Final Take
Lucid’s move feels more crypto than car stock—driven by narrative, not earnings. Perfect for degenerates who think ‘fundamentals’ are a boring meme. Just remember: what pumps fast… often dumps faster.
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Reuters published a report yesterday stating that Tesla's market share had recently fallen to its lowest point in almost eight years amid increasing competition from other players in the EV space. That could be a bullish indicator for Lucid's outlook, but the stock still comes with a high degree of risk.
Is Lucid stock a buy right now?
In the second quarter, Lucid recorded a loss of roughly $739.3 million on revenue of $259.4 million. Large losses have been the norm throughout the EV specialist's history as a publicly traded company, and the company WOULD quickly burn through its cash position of approximately $1.8 billion and could be forced to take on sizable debt if it weren't for the backing of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The PIF owns a majority stake in Lucid and has regularly provided large cash injections in exchange for new shares of the company's stock. Given that the PIF is already the company's largest shareholder by far, it could be said that the Public Investment Fund faces a smaller dilutive impact on a real-terms basis -- and that other shareholders face outsized risk from dilution.