Posted on 12/09/2025 2:49:57 PM PST by janetjanet998
SpaceX plans to go public at $1.5 trillion valuation in 2026, the largest IPO in history, Bloomberg reports
Interesting. I’ll tell my daughter, whose broker makes her a lot of money.
SpaceX is basically our space program now.
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Elon owns about 40% of Space X.
If it gets valued at 1.5 trillion, that alone would give him a net worth of 600 billion. Add to that just the 16% he owns of Tesla, which also has a market cap of 1.5 trillions, (280 billion) and his net worth from those two companies alone would be $880 billion - within shouting distance of a trillion!
And he deserves it! I don’t begrudge him one penny!
How do I get in on this?
I probably couldn’t afford it.
The trading frenzy that follows will crash the system.
Buy shares.
I wonder what its going to be per share
1) Wait until the IPO process is closer to completed and an official ticker symbol is created. Let's assume it'll be SPCX.
2) See if your Roth IRA (or IRA or set up a simple investing account with no tax breaks) allows for investing in individual stocks instead of just mutual funds. Often the lingo on the website is "brokerage account". What little individual stock buying I've done is within my Roth IRA (so the growth is tax free) at T Rowe Price, admittedly probably not the best user interface for individual stock buying. Probably best is TD Ameritrade's Think or Swim app. You'll probably have to deposit the cash you want to invest into your brokerage sweep account. Let's say it's $1K.
3) Within that, set up a purchase order. Perhaps the simplest is for a fixed amount of dollars with a "Market" type of investment. That says hire the computer version of Dan Akroyd or Eddie Murphy to go out onto the trading floor and get however many shares of SPCX that $1,000 can get you. Alternatively, you can choose a "Limit" type and say that you want to invest your $1,000 but only if each share is no more than X dollars per share.
4) Then you'll get an email or text that the purchase order was executed (bought stock in SPCX). IMHO for an IPO, immediately after purchase I'd set up a sell order of Limit type for if it pops. Maybe set it to sell half of the shares if the stock price doubles. With that your computer Dan Akroyd is always on the trading floor saying that he's selling for $X. If someone else is willing to buy at that price, you'll get an email that that sell order was executed. Thus you'll have $2K, with half of it still invested in SPCX and the other half as cash in your sweep account. At that point you're playing with house money. And if it's in your Roth IRA there's no tax implications for the growth (you don't even get into short term or long term capital gains tax rules). Just make sure your broker doesn't charge trading fees.
So, private equity values the company at $.8T, but the IPO is planned for a valuation of 1.5T. With an offering of just $30B in public shares, it will probably fly. Like a rocket.
Rumor has it that Apple will include Starlink in its phones starting next year (as will the competition, no doubt). T-mobile already offers some limited (slow) service with existing phones, but I expect performance with newer phones will be much better. There's also the new US DoD Starshield network being built out for the military that will bring in MIC money. Next is apparently AI data centers in space, based on next gen starlink satellites. If Starship becomes operational next year, Spacex will open up an even bigger lead over space programs around the world.
Hopefully Spacex is not Skynet...
Don’t forget he owns X which is valued at another $44 billion.
I, for one, am happy to see this hard working African American succeed. He has earned it the old fashioned way, with hard work, even if his products are all about cutting edge tech.
BUMP!
Pretty risky stuff. The big boys and the speculators will drive up the IPO price to wildly insane levels and then six months following the initial offering the stock will drop and level off to a real-world value. Good way to lose your shirt, unless you know someone on the inside who can get you in very, very early... as in before the actual offering.
I’ll be buying at least 100K worth of SpaceX.
geez last week on the 5th its reported ay 800 billion nows it 1.5 trillion by bloomburg..
could be a spacex as a whole or starlink ipo
Per Grok:
SpaceX IPO Plans as of December 9, 2025
Yes, SpaceX is actively planning an initial public offering (IPO), with a target timeline of mid-to-late 2026. This would involve listing the entire company—including its Starlink satellite internet division—rather than spinning off Starlink separately as previously discussed.
The IPO is expected to raise significantly more than $30 billion, potentially making it the largest in history (surpassing Saudi Aramco’s $29 billion raise in 2019), at a targeted valuation of around $1.5 trillion.
Funds from the offering are slated for ambitious projects like developing space-based data centers and AI chips in orbit.
There will be a scramble for IPO shares, Katie bar the door!
At that valuation it might be a good company to Short.
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