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Summary
Tesla (TSLA) closed at $367.16 on October 14, 2026, down 2.15%, as the Nasdaq Composite fell 1.88%.
No fetched source named a company-specific cause; after the close, Barclays flagged a possible SpaceX merger and NHTSA opened a robotaxi school zone probe.
Tesla now sits 26.40% below its 52-week high, with third quarter results due October 21.
Gotrade News - Tesla (TSLA) closed at $367.16 on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, down $8.07 or 2.15% in the US session. In today's tesla stock news, the drop came as technology shares sold off across the board, with the Nasdaq Composite losing 1.88%, while no fetched report named a company-specific trigger for the decline.
TSLA Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$367.16
Change
-$8.07 (-2.15%)
Previous close
$375.23
Open
$371.16
Day range
$363.82 to $371.39
Volume
30.8 million shares
30-day average volume
36.6 million shares
52-week range
$297.38 to $498.83
Market cap
$1.48 trillion
Regular-session close on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against Nasdaq's official close. Indices, the 10-year Treasury yield and oil (Brent and WTI front-month futures): Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
Tesla opened at $371.16, a few cents below the session high of $371.39, and drifted lower through the day toward a low of $363.82. It finished $3.34 above that low. Volume reached 30.8 million shares, 15.80% below the 36.6 million share average, so the selling came on lighter activity than usual.
The broader market was weak. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.88% to 26,692.87, the S&P 500 slipped 1.11% to 7,718.94 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 0.09% to 51,621.48. Tesla lagged the Nasdaq by 0.27 percentage points. Large technology peers fell too: Nvidia (NVDA) dropped 3.16% and Microsoft (MSFT) lost 1.80%. The US 10-year Treasury yield eased 2.7 basis points to 5.19%.
The close leaves Tesla 26.40% below its 52-week high of $498.83 and 23.46% above its 52-week low of $297.38. It extends the decline from the prior session, when Tesla closed at $375.23.
None of the sources reviewed for this article tied Wednesday's decline to a specific Tesla announcement, and the move tracked the Nasdaq-wide selloff in technology names. Two Tesla stories circulated around the session, though both were published after the closing bell.
According to Stocktwits, Barclays wrote in a Wednesday note that a merger between Tesla and SpaceX could be announced as early as before Tesla's 2026 annual meeting, which must be held by December 6.
Barclays expects an all-stock structure in which SpaceX acquires Tesla, at roughly 0.7 SpaceX shares per Tesla share based on current market values, and said the deal would still need approval from both shareholder groups and antitrust review.
Separately, per Simply Wall St., the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a safety investigation into Tesla's robotaxis and its Cybercab over alleged speeding in active school zones. The outlet said possible outcomes include software changes, recalls or limits on usage.
The robotaxi fleet is expanding. As reported by Motley Fool, Texas DMV records showed 319 Cybercabs registered as of October 10, up from 45 when the Austin service launched on September 4.
Barclays described vertical integration as the main value in a potential SpaceX combination, per Stocktwits.
Risks
The NHTSA school zone probe could lead to recalls, fines or restrictions on unsupervised operation near schools, according to Simply Wall St.
Cybercabs make up 39% of Tesla's Austin robotaxi fleet but only about 11% of rides, Motley Fool reported, citing RobotaxiTracker data.
Any SpaceX merger faces shareholder votes and antitrust review, and Barclays said a late announcement could make approval at the annual meeting more difficult.
Tesla's next confirmed event is its third quarter 2026 financial results, due after the market close on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, according to the company's SEC filing.
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