Insider trade

Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja sold about $1.17M of shares on Dec 8, 2025

Traded Dec 8, 2025 · Filed Dec 10, 2025

TeslaTSLA

~$1.17M
Reported value · 2,637 sh @ $443.927: 14K
Holds after · shares reported: -19.4%
stock since the trade · S&P 500 +11.8%, $439.58 → $354.11 on Oct 1

Why it stands out

The money chief of Tesla sold $1.17M of Tesla shares. It happened by itself, for taxes or pay.

An automatic sale tied to taxes or pay, not a fresh decision
Sold 16% of their holdings
Their first sale in the data covering the past year
3 insiders at Tesla sold within a month

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Dec 8, 2025
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Dec 10, 2025

CFO$1M+Pre-arranged plan referenced

Context

Classification

open market sale

Code S — open-market or private sale

Absolute commitment

~$1,170,636

Shares × reported transaction price

Timing vs results

47 days after results of Oct 22, 2025, 25 days before results of Jan 2, 2026

Results dates are the company's own 8-K (Item 2.02). Many companies only let insiders trade in a window after results

Price at the time

Closed at $439.58 on Dec 8, 2025, 98% above its 52-week low and 8% below its high, after a 1% rise over the previous 30 trading days

52-week range $221.86 (Apr 8, 2025) to $479.86 (Dec 17, 2024), 84% of the way up, from 250 adjusted closes. 30 trading days earlier: $433.72 on Oct 24, 2025. Describes the past only, not a forecast

Planned / mechanical clue

Footnote references tax withholding

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

After it was reported

After	Stock	S&P 500	Difference
7 days	+3.5%	-2.4%	+5.8%
30 days	-1.4%	+0.9%	-2.4%
90 days	-11.6%	-1.5%	-10.1%
180 days	-9.4%	+7.5%	-16.9%

Past results only. Not a forecast.

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001104659-25-119764
Filed / recorded: Dec 10, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
Added to OQRO: Oct 1, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC
Parser: form4-xml-v1
Data quality: Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer: Tesla, Inc.
Issuer CIK: 1318605
Ticker: TSLA
Reporting person: Vaibhav Taneja
Relationship: Officer
Officer title: Chief Financial Officer
Security: Common Stock
Table: Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date: Dec 8, 2025
Transaction code: S
Shares / units: 2,637
Price per share: $443.927
Acquired / disposed: Disposed (D)
Shares owned after: 13,757
Ownership form: Direct
Amendment: No

Footnotes from the filing

PURSUANT TO THE ISSUER'S EQUITY PLAN AND POLICIES, THESE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK WERE AUTOMATICALLY WITHHELD AND SOLD BY THE ISSUER TO SATISFY THE REPORTING PERSON'S TAX WITHHOLDING OBLIGATIONS RELATED TO THE VESTING OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS REPORTED HEREIN.

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