The majority of Tesla shares are held by institutional investors, and most of those are passive investors, holding it long term. Tesla is included in multiple index funds, including those tracking the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.
But I think hedge funds are the real players here. Tesla is one of their successful investments. So placing even more bets there to keep numbers looking good is one possible play...
No. The big index funds fully replicate the index.
They will drop Tesla only if Tesla is dropped from the index.
Tesla is currently up by 1150% since 2019.