Tesla TSLA: How a $10,000 bet on Model 3 day turned into $137,000
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on July 28, 2026.
A $10,000 investment in Tesla on the day of the first Model 3 delivery nine years ago would have grown to over $137,000 today, capturing the company's explosive transition from startup skeptic to EV market leader.
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When Tesla handed over its first Model 3 vehicles on July 28, 2017, the company was still widely seen as an ambitious but money-losing gamble. An investor who put $10,000 into TSLA shares on that day would have watched that stake grow to $137,631 today — a total return of about 1,276% and a multiple of nearly 13.8 times the original investment.
The ride was anything but smooth. The chart shows the position dipping well below the starting value multiple times in the early years before a dramatic surge pushed it past $180,000 at its peak reading in the data. A steep correction later pulled the value back toward $59,728 at its lowest point in the chart, reminding investors just how volatile TSLA has been across its run.
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The nine-year span captures Tesla's full transformation — from a company racing to prove it could manufacture at scale, to one that reshaped the global automotive industry. The current value of $137,631 reflects where that journey stands today, though the data makes clear that the path between any two points was rarely a straight line.
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