SpaceX Sets IPO Price at $135 Per Share, Eyes $74.4 Billion Raise
SpaceX has set a price of $135 for shares that will be sold in its upcoming initial public offering, the company has revealed in its amended filing.
According to Reuters and The New York Times, it's unusual for companies to set a concrete price a week before it goes public, and they just typically set a price range in case of shifts in investor demand .
The company could still change the price of its shares. It will announce the final price on June 11, with stocks trading the next day.
If SpaceX's stocks do sell for $135, it's expected to raise $74.4 billion from the IPO, making it the biggest in history and giving the company a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion. It could also make Elon Musk the very first trillionaire. With shares trading at $135, Elon Musk's 50 percent stake in the company would be worth around $752 billion.
Those are amounts most ordinary people could hardly comprehend. Matthew Kennedy, a senior IPO market strategist at Renaissance Capital, told The Times that raising $74.4 billion would be "more than every US IPO combined in the last two years."
SpaceX quietly filed draft IPO registration paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year. When the paperwork became public, it shed light on the finances of Musk's companies and their clients. Anthropic, for instance, will apparently pay the combined SpaceX-xAI entity $1.25 billion a month until May 2029 so that it could use xAI's data centers. It also revealed that X, the social media website, saw a $595 million decrease in ad revenue in 2024 due to a "loss of advertising partners."
