SpaceX IPO explained: The price is set, but retail allocation still up in the air

Cnbc · Jun 09, 2026 · 686 words · By Ari Levy; Leslie Picker

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Nothing about SpaceX's initial public offering is ordinary.

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Topics 3

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What happened

Nothing about SpaceX's initial public offering is ordinary.

Why it matters

The rocket maker is aiming to raise a record sum, by a wide margin, at a historic valuation, and will be controlled by Elon Musk, who's also CEO of Tesla, another trillion-dollar company.

Common ground

When it comes to the mechanics of the share sale, SpaceX is offering a take-it-or-leave-it price of $135, rather than providing a range and then pricing the deal based on demand, as is customary in IPOs.

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.

Follow-up questions

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/spacex-ipo-explained-stock-price-date.html

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 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 stock fell 8% in its debut.”

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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 2: “In Robinhood's own IPO in 2021, the trading site indicated it wanted to sell between 20% and 35% of shares to retail investors.”

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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 3: “Among the nine public trillion-dollar companies, the smallest by revenue is Micron with $58 billion over the past year”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was provided or found regarding Micron's revenue relative to other trillion-dollar companies.

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Claim 4: “the least profitable is Musk's other company, Tesla, with $3.8 billion in 2025 net income.”

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Claim 5: “The next week, it upped the range to between $150 and $160.”

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TipRanks and other web search results confirm the price range was subsequently increased to $150–$160.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cerebras Systems Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, develops semiconductors, supercomputers, and related software to power artificial intelligence deep-learning applications such as inferen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebras_Systems

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Andrew D. Feldman is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cerebras Systems, a semiconductor and artificial intelligence infrastructure …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman_(businessman)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1789 Capital Management, LLC is an American venture capital firm based in Palm Beach, Florida. The company focuses on products and companies associated with conservative values, and positions itself a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789_Capital

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Claim 6: “SpaceX is offering a take-it-or-leave-it price of $135”

CORROBORATED

Multiple independent sources (CNBC, Flipboard, and Wikipedia) confirm that SpaceX set a fixed IPO price of $135 per share.

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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 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 — Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$738 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and $744 billion according to Forbes, as of July 23, 2026, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk

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Claim 7: “the company wants retail investors to receive roughly 30% of the shares being sold, which would amount to about $22.5 billion.”

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Claim 8: “In its prospectus, SpaceX names Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, SoFi and Morgan Stanley's E-Trade as some of the brokerage platforms that will make shares available.”

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Claim 9: “The allocation ended up coming in at the lower end of that range, CNBC reported at the time.”

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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 10: “The stock popped when it opened the next day, closing up 68% at over $311.”

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While evidence confirms the IPO price and that the stock opened high (one source mentions $350), the specific closing percentage of 68% and the closing price of 'over $311' are not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Cerebras Systems was founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, and Jean-Philippe Fricker. [2] These five founders worked together at SeaMicro, which was started in 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebras_Systems

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web search NEUTRAL — Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training. Learn more at cerebras.ai.
https://www.cerebras.ai/

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web search NEUTRAL — Meet the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine—the world’s largest AI processor. Train deep learning models faster, with lower power consumption and industry-leading efficiency.
https://www.cerebras.ai/chip

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Claim 11: “That's for a company that generated $18.7 billion in revenue last year and recorded an operating loss of $4.2 billion.”

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The revenue of $18.7 billion is corroborated by multiple sources. However, the sources report a 'net loss' of $4.9 billion, not an 'operating loss' of $4.2 billion. One source specifically mentions an operating loss of $2.6 billion, contradicting the $4.2 billion figure.

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web search NEUTRAL — To understand the scale of the bet, consider this: SpaceX generated $18.7 billion in revenue in 2025, up 33% from the prior year. That is impressive. But the company also posted a GAAP net loss of $4.…
https://becnet.ca/the-spacex-mirage-why-a-1-6-trillion-bet-o…

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web search NEUTRAL — In 2025, SpaceX generated $18.7 billion in revenue, an operating loss of $2.6 billion, and a net loss of $4.9 billion. Adjusted EBITDA — the most flattering lens management offers — was $6.6 billion.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/177-trillion-question-what-yo…

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web search NEUTRAL — In total, the SpaceX conglomerate generated $18.67 billion in revenue in 2025. However, despite increasing revenue 33% year-over-year, SpaceX's acquisition of xAI pushed the company from a profit of $…
https://stockanalysis.com/article/invest-in-spacex-stock/

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Claim 12: “the company said $135 is the share price and $1.77 trillion is the anticipated market cap.”

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CNBC and Wikipedia both confirm the $135 share price and the $1.77 trillion valuation/market cap.

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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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web search NEUTRAL — 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 to live on other…
https://www.spacex.com/launches

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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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Claim 13: “According to Fidelity, the retail slice of IPOs is usually between 5% and 10%.”

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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 14: “Cerebras ultimately priced its offering at $185”

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Reuters and other web search results explicitly state that Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 13, 2026 ... In addition, Cerebras has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock ...
https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/cerebras-systems-annou…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 13, 2026 ... NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Cerebras Systems priced its U.S. initial public offering at $185 per share on Wednesday, above the top end of ...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/cerebras-prices-ipo…

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web search NEUTRAL — Cerebras Systems completed its IPO on May 14, 2026 with ticker CBRS. Log in to Hiive to either invest in or sell private company stock.
https://www.hiive.com/securities/cerebras-systems-stock

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Claim 15: “SpaceX has told investors that it plans to stop taking orders on Wednesday”

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Claim 16: “all of the IPO shares — roughly $75 billion worth — have to get allocated”

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Both Wikipedia and CNBC report that SpaceX raised $75 billion in its IPO.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media. SpaceXAI's flagship products are the generativ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceXAI

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Claim 17: “Elon Musk, who's also CEO of Tesla, another trillion-dollar company.”

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Wikipedia confirms Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla. While the provided evidence doesn't explicitly state Tesla's current market cap is exactly a trillion dollars, it is a widely known and accepted fact in financial records that Tesla has surpassed this threshold.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tesla Cybercab is a two-passenger battery-electric vehicle, designed to be a self-driving car, manufactured by Tesla, Inc. The vehicle has been marketed as fully autonomous and has no steering whe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybercab

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tesla Cyberquad is an electric all-terrain vehicle (ATV) concept presented by Tesla, Inc., at the Tesla Cybertruck's November 2019 unveiling. Concluding the presentation at the company's design st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cyberquad

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles made by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, Inc. The predictions concern Tesla's suite of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) functions, marketed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono…

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Claim 18: “when artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras was gearing up for its IPO last month, the company first said it would sell shares at between $115 and $125 a piece.”

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TipRanks and other web search results confirm that Cerebras initially set its IPO price range between $115 and $125 per share.

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