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SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 979 words · By Brad Badertscher
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What to know about SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out

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What happened

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to soon become a public company in what may be the biggest initial public offering in history.

Why it matters

But my new research suggests that investors who buy shares of the company are unlikely to see the explosive growth that past IPOs had.

Common ground

The rocket and satellite maker, which confidentially filed to go public on April 1, 2026, is reportedly planning to raise as much as US$75 billion in the offering, which would give it a valuation of $1.75 trillion.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 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 IPO price was 5.7 times higher than the exercise price of options granted in the year before the IPO.”
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Claim 2: “The average age of a company when it goes public has more than doubled from four years in the early 2000s to nearly 10 years by 2025.”
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Wikipedia entries on IPOs and unicorn companies lack data about historical average company ages at IPO.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail investors. An IPO is typically underwr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest insurance company and its largest institutional investor …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of unicorn startup companies: In finance, a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more. Notable lists of unicorn companies are maintain…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_compan…
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Claim 3: “Much of the explosive growth in corporate value now occurs while companies are still private.”
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No evidence found in live sources to confirm private company value growth rates relative to IPOs.
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Claim 4: “Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic are also expected to list in the coming months in massive IPOs.”
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Wikipedia entries for OpenAI and AI companies do not reference planned IPOs for Anthropic or Moonshot AI.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moonshot AI (Moonshot; Chinese: 月之暗面; pinyin: Yuè Zhī Ànmiàn; lit. 'Dark Side of the Moon') is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Beijing, China. It has been dubbed one of China's "AI Ti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Franc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Six AI Tigers (Chinese: 大模型六小虎; pinyin: Dà móxíng liù xiǎohǔ; lit. 'Six Little Tigers of Large Models') is a collective designation for six China-based artificial intelligence startup companies es…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_AI_tigers
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Claim 5: “Elon Musk’s SpaceX is expected to soon become a public company in what may be the biggest initial public offering in history.”
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No evidence found in live sources or cross-references to confirm SpaceX's planned IPO or its potential size.
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Claim 6: “The rocket and satellite maker, which confidentially filed to go public on April 1, 2026, is reportedly planning to raise as much as US$75 billion in the offering, which would give it a valuation of $1.75 trillion.”
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Wikipedia entries about SpaceX, Starship, and Moonshot AI do not mention the specific IPO filing date, valuation, or fundraising targets claimed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Te…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a spacecraft and second stage under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's super heavy-lift space vehicle, also …
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Claim 7: “Our research focuses on what regulators and practitioners call 'cheap stock.'”
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No evidence found in live sources to confirm regulators or practitioners refer to stock options as 'cheap stock'.
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Claim 8: “Companies with more cheap stock options invested less in capital expenditures and research and development after going public.”
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No evidence found in live sources to confirm correlations between cheap stock options and post-IPO investment patterns.
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Claim 9: “Companies with more cheap stock experienced lower stock returns over longer horizons after going public.”
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No evidence found in live sources to confirm stock return differences based on cheap stock levels.
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