5 Best Green Stocks To Invest In 2023

1. Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 79

Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a prominent American multinational company specializing in electric vehicles, stationary battery energy storage units for various scales (from residential to grid-level), solar panels, solar shingles, and associated products and services.

In September 2023, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) was granted the green light by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to initiate two trial programs for its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) initiative. This authorization empowers owners of Tesla Powerwall systems to sell surplus solar-generated energy back to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, forming a sizable distributed battery capable of aiding peak demand and averting blackouts. Anticipated is further approval for an additional six VPPs by Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) in Texas, benefiting from a conducive ERCOT market, enabling real-time experimentation and tangible real-world impacts.

Based on the Insider Monkey database, Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) was in the portfolios of 79 hedge funds during the second quarter of 2023, positioning it as the top green stock to invest in. Notably, Cathie Wood of ARK Investment Management has expressed a strong bullish sentiment towards Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) for an extended period and emerged as the leading hedge fund holder of the company.

Baron Funds made the following comment about Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) in its Q1 2023 investor letter:

“Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) designs, manufactures, and sells EVs, related software and components, and solar and energy storage products. Following a sharp decline at the end of 2022, Tesla’s stock rebounded in the first quarter of 2023 on investor expectations that Tesla will continue to grow vehicle deliveries and maintain solid gross and operating margins despite a potential recession, competition in China, and vehicle price reductions. We wrote a long piece on Tesla last quarter and refer readers back to it, because for long-term investors not much has changed over the last three months. Tesla did hold its first Investor Day in March, and several Baron analysts and portfolio managers attended. We toured the Austin Gigafactory, drove in a Cybertruck, boarded a Semi truck, and spoke with a wide swath of Tesla senior managers. During the formal presentation, Tesla highlighted, among other things: (1) its broad and deep bench of executive talent supporting CEO Elon Musk; (2) its “Master Plan 3–Sustainable Energy for All of Earth,” which featured EVs, renewable power from solar and wind, and stationary electric storage; (3) its vehicle assembly innovations, including massive casted parts (building Model Y bodies with single front and rear castings, replacing a substantial number of parts and fastening steps), a stainless steel exoskeleton (for Cybertruck), and its next-generation highly efficient “unboxed process” for its next-gen $25,000 vehicle; (4) a future permanent[1]magnet electric motor that will not require any rare earths; and (5) the massive untapped market opportunity for commercial stationary electric storage, branded Megapack, as the world steadily shifts to renewable energy. As long-term shareholders, we have witnessed Tesla exploit its innovative Model 3/Y now-global mass-market platform to increase vehicle deliveries from barely a standing start to over 1.3 million units, while achieving industry-leading margins and reinforcing its iron-clad balance sheet to almost $23 billion in cash (and effectively no recourse debt). We expect Tesla’s next-generation EV and Megapack products to have a similar impact on company results.”

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