Shares of Tesla Inc. slid 4.95% to $431.66 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index falling 1.49% to 19,722.03 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.

A push to ship vehicles at the end of the year is common, however. Tesla's record quarterly delivery was almost 485,000 vehicles in last year's fourth quarter. But analysts, on average, think the company might come up just shy of Tesla's target this year, predicting 510,000 unit sales.

Tesla' s stock price has been on a bit of a rally lately. The price is currently up almost 70 percent since election day, when Donald Trump became president-elect for a second time. This has boosted Tesla’s market capitalization from $807 billion up to $1.3 trillion.

Tesla stock tumbled in premarket trading Friday ahead of the auto maker’s fourth-quarter delivery announcement. Shares of the electric vehicle-maker fell 0.7% to $450.67, extending losses from a day prior,

One company that should be at the top, or at least near the top, of any investor list of most-watched stocks has to be Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). The U.S. EV maker continues to be one of the most volatile mega-cap names in the market,