Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) posted a sharp rebound on April 9, closing 22.69% higher at $272.20 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on new reciprocal tariffs, excluding China.
The policy shift fueled a broad market rally and brought much-needed relief to Tesla, which has been under pressure from a string of setbacks, including global boycotts, collapsing institutional interest, and weak Q1 delivery numbers.
CEO Elon Musk’s political stance has also added to investor unease. Since Trump’s tariff announcement last week, Tesla had lost nearly $35 billion in market value.
Despite the surge, Tesla slipped in early pre-market trading on Thursday, down 4.43% to $260.13. With investor sentiment still fragile, Finbold turned to its AI-powered prediction model to assess where Tesla’s share price could be headed by April 30, 2025.
AI predicts Tesla’s price trajectory
Having factored in recent price action, macroeconomic conditions, and technical indicators, three leading large language models (LLMs) set an average price target of $268, implying a modest 1.68% downside from the current price of $272.20.
The most optimistic outlook came from Claude 3 Opus, which set a target of $278, projecting a modest 2.01% upside. The model cited strong momentum in recent trading sessions and favorable moving averages as indicators of a bullish trend. However, it also noted that potential interest rate hikes could cap near-term gains.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o, meanwhile, offered a slightly more conservative outlook, predicting a price of $265, 2.61% below current levels. Its reasoning focused on the formation of a Golden Cross, typically viewed as a bullish signal, combined with a stable interest rate outlook that supports growth stocks like Tesla in the near term.
On the cautious end, Gemini 1.5 Flash 002 predicted a decline to $260, a 4.45% drop from the current price. The model pointed to short-term bearish signals in Tesla’s moving averages and a mixed macro environment, though it noted that potential rate cuts or pauses later this year could offer longer-term support.
With the stock rebounding sharply off recent lows, the AI models collectively suggest a cautious but potentially positive path ahead for TSLA in the coming months.
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