Elon Musk’s Twitter fans see value that analysts don’t

Just 10 of the 42 brokerages tracked by Bloomberg that cover Twitter's stock recommend buying it

Buyers are betting Elon Musk can jumpstart Twitter by virtue of his clout as the biggest shareholder and as an influential user on the company’s platform, where he has 80.4 million followers.

Elon Musk and an army of individual investors are now going head-to-head with Wall Street analysts in a contest over Twitter. 

Retail investors helped fuel record trading volume for Twitter, with more than 260 million shares changing hands earlier this week, after Mr Musk disclosed a 9.2% stake in the social-media company. Twitter ranked as the most purchased stock by Fidelity Investments customers as the stock had its biggest rally since the day the company went public in 2013.