And if you had invested $1,000 into Twitter when the company went public in 2013 at the offer price of $26 per share, your investment would be worth about $2,000 as of Tuesday, before fees, CNBC found.
Meanwhile, Tesla shares closed at $249.44 per share on Tuesday. The electric vehicle maker's stock is currently down about 32% in 2022.
Musk and Twitter have been locked in a battle of "deal or no deal" since April, when the billionaire initially offered to buy the social media platform for $44 billion.
In July, Musk attempted to back out of the deal. Twitter then sued him to force him to complete the transaction, and the two parties were scheduled to go to trial on Oct. 17 in Delaware.
If you're considering investing in Twitter, Tesla or another publicly traded company remember: Given the unpredictability of the stock market, you shouldn't use a stock's past performance as an indicator of how well it will perform in the future.
Rather than attempting to select individual stocks and time the market, experts advise a consistent passive investment strategy tends to make sense for most people. Investing in an index fund like the S&P 500, which tracks the stock performance of 500 large American publicly traded companies, can be a great way to start.
As of Oct. 4, the S&P 500 was down close to 12% compared with 12 months ago. The index has risen by about 49% since 2017 and increased by nearly 117% since 2013.
