Elon Musk tweeted his best investing advice—and it sounds a lot like Warren Buffett’s strategy

Elon Musk tweeted his best investing advice—and it sounds a lot like Warren Buffett’s strategy

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and legendary investor Warren Buffett might disagree about the long-term value of cryptocurrencies, but they seem to share the same principles when it comes to investing in the stock market. Musk, the richest person on Earth according to the , offered some investing advice in : "Since I've been asked a lot: Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that believe in. Only sell if you think their products and services are trending worse. Don't panic when the market does." The tweet echoes the principles of made famous by Buffett, currently the sixth richest person in the world. With value investing, you only buy the stocks of companies that have a business model that you believe in and understand. Ideally, these companies are undervalued and have the potential to provide greater earnings over a long period of time. Since value investors look for deals based on their own research into the intrinsic value of a company, they don't tend to follow trends or short-term stock movements in the market. For Musk, then, Twitter is presumably a value investment based on this logic, as the company's board recently accepted his offer to buy the