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One of the world’s largest investment advisors, Vanguard Group, has increased its position in the luxurious electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors by 104 percent in the first quarter of the year, a recent form reveals.
Vanguard’s fund Small-Cap Growth Index Fund Investor Shares filed a new form last week where it disclosed holding 13,267,848 shares in Lucid. Based on the current stock price of $2.86, the stake is valued at $37.95 million.
In the previous form, filed in late February, Vanguard had disclosed holding 6,505,794 shares of Lucid Group. In March, the fund added 6.76 million shares increasing its position by 103.94 percent.
The low-cost index fund offers exposure to “small-capitalization U.S. growth stocks, which tend to grow more quickly than the broader market,” Vanguard explains in its website.
According to Fintel, Lucid currently has 729 institutional shareholders holding a total of 1,666,008,128 shares as of Tuesday.
Largest shareholders include Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares plus the Small-Cap Index Fund Investor Shares, and Morgan Stanley.
In an email sent on Monday, Lucid Motors announced that is introducing a new leasing incentive offering a $3,750 Air Credit for new customers in the United States. The incentive is in addition to the company’s existing $5,000 bonus applicable to any vehicle from its inventory as Lucid eyes higher sales in its main market.
During the first quarter of the year, Lucid delivered 1,967 vehicles, a nearly 40 percent growth compared to the first three months of 2023. In the conference call that followed the recent earnings release, the CEO Peter Rawlinson disclosed that over 500 of them were delivered to Saudi Arabia.
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Also known as MKBHD, Marques Brownlee has published on Friday a new video reviewing Lucid Motors‘ most luxurious variant of its first production model, the Air.
In the video, which reached nearly 400 thousand views after just 18 hours, he claims that the 1,234 horsepower variant Sapphire is “one of the best sedans ever made” adding that he’s also including the combustion engine sedans in that evaluation.
The CEO Peter Rawlinson has recently criticized Tesla, suggesting the company is “distracted” and “losing its way” adding that it “really falls to Lucid to take the technology to a whole new level”.
In a previous talk with the Financial Times earlier this month, the chief executive had said manufacturers from China are “many years behind Tesla” despite admitting “they’re a lot better than they’ve been”.
The electric vehicle startup is reportedly gearing up to announce a partnership providing Hyundai’s premium brand, Genesis, with electric motors.
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