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Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes $1.77tn valuation ahead of blockbuster IPO

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 747 words · By John Power
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes $1.77tn valuation ahead of blockbuster IPO Texas-based rocket company announces plans to sell shares at $135 apiece, aiming to raise approximately $75bn.

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What happened

Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes $1.77tn valuation ahead of blockbuster IPO Texas-based rocket company announces plans to sell shares at $135 apiece, aiming to raise approximately $75bn.

Why it matters

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is targeting a valuation of nearly $1.77 trillion in its blockbuster initial public offering (IPO), paving the way for the largest stock market debut in history.

Common ground

In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, SpaceX said that it plans to sell 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece, raising approximately $75bn.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The eye-popping valuation would make SpaceX the world’s seventh-largest company by market capitalisation, ahead of Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla and social media giant Meta, and just behind Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC.”
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The valuation of $1.77 trillion is confirmed. Market cap lists and reports indicate this would place it among the top companies, specifically comparing it to TSMC, Tesla, and Meta based on the provided 2025/2026 market data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Big Tech, also known as the tech giants or tech titans, are the largest and most influential technology companies in the world. It most commonly refers to the five dominant firms in the U.S. technolog…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025. The firm was founded by Peter Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of publicly traded companies, that have the largest market capitalization or "market value". Most or all of these companies would be categorized as megacap stocks. Market capit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by…
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Claim 2: “SpaceX, in contrast, has trailing annual revenue of less than $20bn, and is not profitable”
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Claim 3: “It debuted in 2010 as a loss-making company and largely tracked the S&P 500 for years, only breaking away decisively once it turned profitable for the first time in Q1 2013”
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Claim 4: “Founded by Musk in 2002, SpaceX is best known for designing and launching rockets, spacecraft and reusable launch vehicles on behalf of NASA and private companies.”
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Five independent cross-references (Phys, Nypost) and Wikipedia confirm SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-spacex-sprawling-company-stars…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Musk, a major owner who founded SpaceX in 2002
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-spacex-reveals-biggest.html
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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX is the US aerospace manufacturer founded by Elon Musk in 2002
https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/world-news/wild-cone-shaped-uf…
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Claim 5: “SpaceX’s debut is the first of three mega-IPOs expected this year, along with AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic.”
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Claim 6: “The company also provides internet services and artificial intelligence models through its Starlink and xAI divisions.”
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Multiple web search results confirm SpaceX provides internet via Starlink and AI infrastructure/models via xAI.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... Five years ago, Google agreed to supply computing and networking resources to SpaceX to help deliver internet service through its Starlink ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-mil…
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web search NEUTRAL — Starlink: A hyperscale network that doubles as a global ISP. Today, every AI query routes through terrestrial bottlenecks (AWS, Azure, GCP, ISPs). SpaceX has ...
https://x.com/munster_gene/article/2041801208508125536
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... Space launch services; Satellite internet through Starlink; Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure through xAI. This shift means its ...
https://craigsip.com/news/spacex-explained-from-rockets-to-a…
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Claim 7: “buyers of investment products linked to the listing are pricing the company’s end-of-first-day market capitalisation at $2.2 trillion.”
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Claim 8: “Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is targeting a valuation of nearly $1.77 trillion in its blockbuster initial public offering (IPO)”
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Multiple independent sources, including CNBC, a news article from June 4, and Wikipedia, confirm SpaceX targeted a valuation of $1.77 trillion for its IPO.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A trillionaire is a person whose net worth is at least one trillion units of a given currency, typically the US dollar due to its status as a world currency. A trillionaire represents the highest tier…
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Claim 9: “It would also eclipse energy giant Saudi Aramco’s 2019 debut, which raised $26bn at a valuation of $1.7 trillion.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources (NY Times, etc.) confirm Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO raised approximately $25.6-$26 billion at a valuation of $1.7 trillion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amin Hassan Nasser (Arabic: أمين حسن الناصر) is the President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer. He became acting president and chief executive in May 2015 before assuming the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_H._Nasser
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia had its initial public offering (IPO) on December 11, 2019. It was the largest IPO until the initial public offering of SpaceX on June 11, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, and the national oil company of Sau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco
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Claim 10: “SpaceX reported a net loss of $4.9bn on revenue of 18.7bn in 2025, followed by a $4.3bn loss in the first quarter of this year.”
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Yahoo Finance, NY Times, and Investing.com all report the 2025 net loss of $4.9 billion on $18.7 billion revenue and the Q1 2026 loss of $4.3 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 20, 2026 ... SpaceX filed for its long-awaited IPO on Wednesday, disclosing a net loss of $4.9 billion on $18.7 billion in revenue last year. Elon Musk's ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-fil…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 20, 2026 ... In the first three months of this year, SpaceX lost almost as much money as all of 2025, recording a $4.3 billion loss. Advertisement. SKIP ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technology/elon-musk-spac…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 30, 2026 ... Losses worsened in Q1 2026, when SpaceX lost $4.3 billion on $4.7 billion in revenue. Total 2025 capital expenditure reached $20.7 billion, ...
https://www.investing.com/analysis/spacexs-next-mission-lead…
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Claim 11: “Musk will retain effective control of SpaceX with more than 82 percent of voting rights, the result of a dual-class stock structure that grants certain shares 10 votes instead of one.”
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Multiple sources (Wikipedia, Fortune, and another web result) confirm Musk controls over 82% of voting power (some say 85%) via a dual-class/super-voting stock structure.
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago ... Musk (who owns roughly 40% of the equity and controls over 82% of the voting power via Class B shares) signed a strict 366-day extended lock-up ...
https://www.facebook.com/Stockstoearnpage/posts/breaking-spa…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago ... Musk holds roughly 6.4 billion shares making up about 82% of the voting power at SpaceX between his Class A and Class B supervoting 10-shares-in ...
https://fortune.com/2026/07/03/elon-musk-cant-sell-spacex-st…
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk owns 42% of the outstanding shares of SpaceX and controls 85% of the voting power via his super-voting stock. Space Exploration Technologies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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Claim 12: “Musk, who holds a roughly 42 percent stake in SpaceX, is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire upon the public offering next week.”
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Both Deutsche Welle and France24 independently report that Musk holds around 42% of equity. Wikipedia also mentions his ownership percentage in the context of the company.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Mars colonization program (also referred to as Occupy Mars as a joking reference to the Occupy movement) is the stated long-term objective of the company SpaceX, and particularly of its founder…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_colonization_progr…
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Claim 13: “SpaceX shares are expected to trade on the New York-based Nasdaq stock exchange from June 12.”
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The NY Post and Wikipedia both confirm the IPO date as June 12, 2026, and the exchange as Nasdaq.
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk owns 42% of the outstanding shares of SpaceX and controls 85% of the voting power via his super-voting stock. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing spaceflight co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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web search NEUTRAL — 太空探索技术公司 （英語： Space Exploration Technologies Corp.），商业名称「SpaceX」，是 美国 一家 民营 航空航天 及 人工智能 公司，总部位于美国 得克萨斯州 卡梅伦县 的 星礎市。
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web search NEUTRAL — May 22, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people t…
https://www.spacex.com/
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Claim 14: “In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, SpaceX said that it plans to sell 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece, raising approximately $75bn.”
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While the IPO and valuation are corroborated, the specific details regarding the sale of 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece to raise $75bn are not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets, though the $135 price is mentioned in some.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of July 5, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 672 times, with 669 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one parti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion fuel cycle, and the first such engine to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor
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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.