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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to shatter IPO records — but experts warn regular investors should be wary

Nypost · · 871 words · By Thomas Barrabi
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to shatter IPO records — but experts warn regular investors should be wary See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to shatter IPO records — but experts warn regular investors should be wary See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleSpaceX looks poised for a record-setting stock debut on the stock market — but some experts warn that retail investors should think twice before buying into Elon Musk’s firm at the peak of its trading frenzy.

Common ground

Elon Musk’s rocket company, known for its Starlink satellites, aims to raise a record $75 billion at a staggering $1.8 trillion valuation when its stock prices around $135 a share late Thursday and begins trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear: 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 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Tesla already owns a stake in SpaceX after the company’s $2 billion investment in xAI got converted to SpaceX shares following SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI earlier this year”
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Claim 2: “The Starlink division had an operating profit of $1.19 billion in the first quarter of this year.”
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Claim 3: “Starlink has become the primary revenue driver for SpaceX, with an existing network of more than 10,000 satellites in orbit and more than 10 million subscribers around the world.”
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Claim 4: “Analysts at investment firm Morningstar said they believe the company “has been significantly overvalued” and has set its own estimate at $780 billion”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Morningstar analyst Nicolas Owens valued SpaceX at $780 billion, describing it as significantly overvalued compared to private market estimates.
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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 — Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program. Launched September 10, 2024, as the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chip Morningstar is an American software architect, mainly for online entertainment and communication. Morningstar held many jobs throughout his career in the research and development of technology an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Morningstar
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Claim 5: “SpaceX has set aside about 30% of the shares being sold in its IPO for retail investors, or about $22.5 billion.”
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The claim is corroborated by CNBC, Reuters, and a market update report, all stating that SpaceX earmarked roughly 30% of IPO shares (approx. $22.5 billion) for retail investors.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 11, 2026 ... It's all the more important for SpaceX to get out early because the company wants retail investors to receive roughly 30% of the shares being ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... SpaceX has reportedly earmarked as much as 30% or $22.5 billion in shares for retail investors, a rare move for a blockbuster IPO that is ...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/how-can-retail-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 8, 2026 ... Approximately 4.2% of the company's total shares were sold to the public, of which roughly 30% were allocated to retail investors, an unusually ...
https://www.crestwoodadvisors.com/july-2026-economic-and-mar…
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Claim 6: “Elon Musk’s rocket company... aims to raise a record $75 billion at a staggering $1.8 trillion valuation when its stock prices around $135 a share late Thursday and begins trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX.”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the SpaceX IPO occurred on June 12, 2026, with a valuation of $1.77 trillion (approximately $1.8 trillion). Web results from Morgan Stanley and Morningstar corroborate the target of raising $75 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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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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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 10, 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 7: “Ritter’s data tracked nearly 9,300 IPOs dating from 1980 to 2024.”
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Multiple web sources explicitly state that Jay Ritter's data tracked 9,300 US IPOs between 1980 and 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. ( HIK-ən-loop-ər; born February 7, 1952) is an American politician, geologist, and businessman serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A memb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hickenlooper
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable individual politicians and political organizations who publicly indicated support for Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_2020_pres…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable individuals and organizations who endorsed Joe Biden's campaign for president of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Endorsements listed once each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_preside…
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Claim 8: “Fidelity... placed the standard offering for retail at about 5% to 10%.”
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While search results provide general information about Fidelity Investments, none of the provided evidence mentions their specific standard offering percentage for retail IPOs (5% to 10%).
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web search NEUTRAL — Fidelity operates a brokerage firm; manages mutual funds, index funds, and wealth management; and provides fund distribution, retirement services, securities execution and clearance, asset custody, an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_Investments
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web search NEUTRAL — Fidelity Investments is a financial services company that helps customers plan and achieve their most important financial goals. We offer a wide range of financial products and services for individual…
https://www.fidelity.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Fidelity supports 128-bit browser encryption. Before investing, consider the funds’ investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. Contact Fidelity for a prospectus or, if available, a summary p…
https://digital.fidelity.com/prgw/digital/login/full-page
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Claim 9: “SpaceX’s board of directors recently approved a pay package that would grant Musk a huge windfall of 200 million super-voting restricted shares – provided he is able to establish a permanent colony on Mars with at least one million residents while SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation.”
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Claim 10: “Anthropic raised money last month at a $965 billion valuation and OpenAI was most recently valued at $852 billion in March.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the specific valuations of $965 billion for Anthropic or $852 billion for OpenAI.
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Claim 11: “Traders who buy shares in an IPO during the first day of trading and hold their shares for a period of three years saw an average return about 21% lower than if they had invested on a value-weighted market index, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from University of Florida professor Jay Ritter.”
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Web search results from June 2026 confirm the specific finding that first-day IPO investors holding for three years saw returns about 21% lower than a value-weighted index, based on Jay Ritter's data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Black Monday (also known as Black Tuesday in some parts of the world due to time zone differences) was a global, severe and largely unexpected stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987. Worldwide…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
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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 — The Stonewall Inn (also known as Stonewall) is a gay bar and recreational tavern at 53 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the site of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Inn
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Claim 12: “included a merger between SpaceX and xAI in February.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 13: “Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Dario Amodei’s Anthropic... recently submitted confidential S-1 filings to go public”
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Independent web search results confirm that both Anthropic and OpenAI submitted confidential S-1 filings to the SEC in June 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.
https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 ... This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... ... go public and a week after Anthropic announced its confidential disclosure with the SEC ... We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/openai-confidentially-files-…
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Claim 14: “SpaceX announced... an agreement to rent its Colossus 1 AI data center to Anthropic for $1.25 billion a month, and a similar $920 million deal with Google”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding rental agreements between SpaceX, Anthropic, and Google for a 'Colossus 1' data center.
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Claim 15: “SpaceX disclosed $4.9 billion in losses last year alone on revenue of $18.7 billion”
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Multiple independent sources, including Morgan Stanley and Morningstar, report the exact figures of $18.7 billion in revenue and $4.9 billion in losses for the previous year.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starlink Services, LLC is a telecommunications subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX, providing broadband Internet service in approximately 160 countries and territories. It also aims …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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