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To launch the biggest offering ever, the space baron is drawing on his real power: everyday investors.

As part of the latest installment of Yahoo Finance's Options Playbook, BayCrest managing director David Boole explains the influence that mega-IPOs, the likes of SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), are having on markets (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC), possible options trades, and proxy trades on other stocks like Elon Musk's Tesla (TSLA).

Robert Frank’s CNBC segment on May 22, 2026, titled Elon Musk’s trillionaire march: Here’s what to know, laid out the arithmetic of how the SpaceX IPO could push Musk past a threshold no human has ever crossed. “Elon Musk is worth right now around $800 billion,” Frank said. “The SpaceX IPO likely to put him ... SpaceX IPO Could Make Elon Musk World’s First Trillionaire, Eclipsing Rockefeller’s Wealth Share

Trillion dollar companies are typically profitable. SpaceX lost about $5 billion in 2025, according to its IPO registration statement.

Filing shows Musk retaining control as SpaceX expands deeper into AI, Starlink and space infrastructure ambitions.

The Starship test flight comes as investors gear up for SpaceX’s initial public offering, which could value the company at $2 trillion or more.

Elon Musk's corporate universe could be headed for its biggest combination yet, according to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who is now putting an 80% probability on a Tesla Inc. and SpaceX merger. Ives made the call in a Wednesday note...

Prediction market traders currently see the highest odds for a SpaceX debut valuation between $2 trillion and $2.5 trillion.

SpaceX accounts for 16.2% of DXYZ’s portfolio, while VCX holds Anthropic at 20.7%, OpenAI at 9.9% and SpaceX at 5%.

Wedbush sees a potential deal, but prediction-market traders remain divided.

Elon Musk-led commercial spaceflight giant SpaceX‘s IPO could become a problem for Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors and shareholders as the market readies itself for the June IPO date. Muskonomy The upcoming IPO could take investors’ appetite away from Tesla and onto SpaceX, while also shifting Musk’s efforts and focus from the EV giant, experts cited by Bloomberg on Thursday said. “This cannot be a positive for Tesla,” Joe Gilbert, a portfolio manager at Integrity Asset Management, cited in t

SpaceX will reportedly allocate 30% of shares to retail investors, betting on the CEO’s loyal base of investors—and putting Tesla under more scrutiny.

Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian breaks down SpaceX's (SPAX.PVT) finances ahead of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO).

Space Exploration Technologies, widely known as SpaceX, has filed for an initial public offering in

SpaceX will be the largest IPO in history. Stock Strategist Andrew Rocco explains what you need to know.

Somewhere between a thought experiment and a margin call, SpaceX has a price. On Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives venue, a synthetic contract called SPCX-USD recently changed hands around $203. Plug that price into the company’s share count and the implied valuation lands at roughly $2.4 trillion. At that level, a SpaceX initial public offering would ... SpaceX Is Quietly Trading at a Price That Would Make It 23x Bigger Than Facebook’s IPO

SpaceX's latest filing shows new details about the agreements with Tesla and Intel, its two partners in the Terafab AI chip factory.

Here is the part of the SpaceX IPO story most coverage glossed over: Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) wrote a $2 billion check to xAI in January 2026, and weeks later that check effectively cleared into SpaceX. The $2 billion that quietly changed addresses According to the SpaceX S-1, in January 2026, Tesla entered into an agreement with ... Tesla’s $2 Billion xAI Bet Just Got Folded Into SpaceX: The Hidden Story Behind the IPO

Ticker SPCX will trade on Nasdaq with Musk retaining 85.1% of voting power

SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) has officially filed for its initial public offering (IPO). Elon Musk's company is reportedly expected to raise $80 billion for a $2 trillion valuation. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley and Morning Brief host Julie Hyman take a deeper dive into the company's numbers and prospects in the video above.

Tesla stock rose early Thursday after SpaceX filed its IPO registration statement, fueling speculation about a megamerger between the two companies as their ties and overlap deepen. Tesla stock was up 1.2% in premarket trading at $422.18, while and futures were down 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively. The move comes after the Wednesday evening release of SpaceX’s IPO filings.

The S-1 IPO registration statement for Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX arrived late Wednesday afternoon. SpaceX is going after what it describes as a $28.5 trillion addressable market “to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars.” The IPO is expected to raise a record amount of money, valuing Elon Musk’s company at roughly $2 trillion—enough to turn the world’s richest person into a trillionaire.

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SpaceX, the space exploration company led by Elon Musk, disclosed in its IPO filing on Wednesday that it holds more than $1 billion in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on its balance sheet. More Details About BTC’s Reserves The company disclosed 18,712 BTC on hand as of March 31, recognized at a fair value of $1.29 billion. At current prices, this stash would be worth $1.45 billion. The total cost basis of these holdings was reported at $661 million, implying an average acquisition cost of around $35,324 p

As SpaceX gears up for its IPO in June, an expert has voiced concerns about potential trading volatility amid the influence of founder and top boss Elon Musk. University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter told Forbes that an "Elon...

I’ve been digging through the SpaceX S-1 filing for hours, and one number deserves its own spotlight in every TSLA model: Tesla’s beneficial ownership of SpaceX Class A common stock. I’m not going to waste your time with a huge article about this. I thought you needed to know right way, so here are the ... Tesla Owns Nearly 19 Million Shares of SpaceX: What TSLA Investors Need to Know Before the IPO

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives and team put out a research note shortly after the SpaceX prospectus dropped with a prediction: Ives believes that SpaceX and Tesla will merge in 2027. He notes how Tesla already owns a stake in SpaceX and that the joint Terafab facility between SpaceX and Tesla further ties both operations.

Elon Musk could pass an unthinkable wealth threshold, becoming the world’s first trillionaire, depending on investors’ excitement for SpaceX shares when it goes public. If the company surpasses a valuation of about $1.7 trillion, then Musk’s slightly more than 40% stake, combined with his Tesla shares, would make him the first man with a net worth eclipsing 13 figures. The calculation omits restricted shares that SpaceX has granted to Musk, but which haven’t been earned, though it includes options he could exercise shortly.

Nvidia stock fell late despite strong earnings. Elon Musk's SpaceX released its filing for a mammoth IP. Stocks rallied Wednesday as oil prices dived on Iran hopes.