Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. If you spent $1,000 on shares of Tesla at the start of 2024, you’d be sitting on nearly $1,700 now—a 70 percent gain, about double the returns of the overall stock market. A resurgent Bitcoin is up even more, yielding a return of 120 percent for crypto true believers.