Jordan Fitzgerald
Jordan Fitzgerald covers the intersection of stock markets and high-profile transportation companies for Bloomberg, with a particular focus on Tesla, SpaceX and major US automakers. His beat centers on how earnings results, capital spending plans and initial public offerings change valuations and trading in these names. He writes across Bloomberg’s markets and capital-markets coverage, including pieces carried on Bloomberg Law, and his work is also syndicated by other business outlets. The reporting is data-driven and fast-paced, pairing share-price moves and analyst calls with quotes from investors reacting in real time.
Tesla's market performance and strategy
Fitzgerald follows Tesla’s share price through analyst shifts and changing views on the company, such as coverage of JPMorgan’s move to a more positive stance after replacing a bearish analyst. In these stories he highlights how comments from figures like Jamie Dimon feed into sentiment around Elon Musk and Tesla’s prospects. He tracks short-term stock performance against peers, including reporting that Tesla stock has lagged SpaceX in the first week after the latter’s IPO, framing the comparison inside Musk’s broader portfolio. His Tesla coverage also digs into the company’s large-scale spending plans, focusing on capital expenditures for artificial intelligence and robotics and how those commitments reshape investors’ expectations. When Tesla disclosed that 2026 capital expenditures would exceed $25 billion, roughly three times the prior year, Fitzgerald used those figures to show the scale of the AI and robotics push relative to the balance sheet. Across these pieces he keeps the lens on what the numbers mean for valuation, weaving in earnings beats, spending trajectories and analyst target changes rather than product reviews or consumer angles.
SpaceX IPO and Musk-linked stocks
SpaceX’s record-setting IPO and its aftermath are a major strand of Fitzgerald’s work, with multiple stories chronicling the frenzy around getting a piece of the offering. He reports on rallies approaching 50% in the days after the IPO and the first pullback in SpaceX shares, treating those moves as signals about how far enthusiasm can stretch before traders reassess. Retail investor voices feature heavily, with headlines that capture traders saying they feel lucky to secure allocations and calling for more exposure, reinforcing how Musk-branded assets function as cultural as well as financial bets. He ties SpaceX’s valuation directly to Tesla’s, noting when SpaceX overtakes Tesla as the most valuable company in Musk’s portfolio and using that milestone to explain the shifting center of gravity in the Musk universe of stocks. The SpaceX pieces sit alongside his Tesla work, forming a coherent view of how closely linked these stocks are in traders’ minds and how quickly leadership among them can change.
Automaker earnings and analyst reactions
Beyond Musk-led firms, Fitzgerald covers established automakers, paying close attention to how quarterly results trigger changes in analyst targets and investor positioning. His reporting on General Motors emphasizes the combination of strong earnings, a bullish outlook and a multibillion-dollar share buyback plan, then details the slew of target increases that followed. In these stories he foregrounds the numbers—earnings beats, buyback sizes, guidance for coming years—and shows how they translate into shifts in the stock and in Wall Street coverage. Coverage of automaker finance is integrated with his broader equities beat, putting GM alongside Tesla and SpaceX in a shared frame of investor demand for transportation-linked growth and cash returns.
Format, outlets and cadence
Fitzgerald’s work appears across Bloomberg’s markets platforms, including Bloomberg Law, and is frequently picked up by regional and financial news sites that run his copy on Tesla and other automakers. Pieces are structured as concise markets reports, often tagged as short reads, that open with a clear stock move or valuation milestone before quickly layering in corporate news and analyst commentary. The emphasis stays on real-time market information—price moves, IPO allocations, capex figures—rather than long-form features, making his coverage a consistent source for up-to-the-minute signals on auto and Musk-linked equities.
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Adrian Leung
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Al Pefley
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Aliza Savira
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