Institutional investors purchased a net $1.8 million shares of TSLA during the quarter ended December 2012. This may signal that the smart money is gaining interest in this company as the 70.49% of shares outstanding that institutional investors hold is actually below the Motor Vehicles industry average.
| Mutual fund holders | 47.15% |
| Individual stakeholders | 42.61% |
| Other institutional | 23.33% |