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SpaceX’s Record IPO Vaults It Into $2 Trillion Club Within Three Trading Days

From its June 13, 2026 Nasdaq listing to June 16, SpaceX shares leapt beyond their $135 offer price, lifting the company’s market cap past $2 trillion and igniting fierce debate over whether the valuation is visionary or bubble-level.

By Underlines TeamJune 16, 2026

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Largest IPO ever: 635 million shares priced at $135 raised roughly $85.7 billion including the greenshoe option.
By 16 Jun 2026 Reuters pegged SpaceX’s market value at $2.17 trillion—within striking distance of Amazon’s $2.2 trillion.
Only a thin public float is trading; tokenised SpaceX stocks on Solana exchanged $47 million in 24-hour volume on 14 Jun, reflecting pent-up demand outside traditional markets.

Investors piling into revolutionary narratives is not new: South Sea Company stock in 1720 and RCA in the 1920s both soared on technology dreams well before profits arrived. More recently, Alibaba’s 2014 $25 billion IPO and Tesla’s 2020 post-split rally showed how scarce float plus index-inclusion bets can turbo-charge valuations. SpaceX sits at the intersection of three 21st-century megatrends—commercial space, global connectivity, and AI compute—and its public debut underscores a structural shift: capital markets now routinely fund infrastructure that once belonged exclusively to nation-states. Whether today’s $2 trillion price tag proves prescient or foolhardy will hinge on execution long after the lock-ups expire; but on a 100-year horizon the more lasting story may be the normalization of privately owned space infrastructure, not the week-one share price.

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