SpaceX's IPO is set to be the biggest ever and could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

Phys · Jun 04, 2026 · 842 words · By ALEX VEIGA; BERNARD CONDON

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SpaceX is planning an initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $75 billion, which could potentially make Elon Musk a trillionaire. The article details the company's financial losses, its ambitious goals for Mars colonization and AI integration, and the broader context of upcoming AI-related IPOs.

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SpaceX's IPO is set to be the biggest ever and could make Elon Musk a trillionaire Andrew Zinin Lead Editor SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest-ever stock market debut and putting…

Why it matters

The company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said Wednesday it will sell 555.6 million shares at $135 a piece in an initial public offering.

Common ground

The estimated proceeds would easily top the $26 billion raised by oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019.

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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: “The filing shows that the company lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue”

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The financial figures regarding the $2.6 billion loss and $18.7 billion revenue are only reported by the Phys cross-reference.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — A filing shows that his SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-spacex-reveals-biggest.html

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Claim 2: “Musk's recent deal that gave SpaceX the rights to buy AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion later this year”

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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: “the company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said Wednesday it will sell 555.6 million shares at $135 a piece in an initial public offering”

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Multiple independent sources (Nbcwashington, CHOSUNBIZ, TechCrunch/Techmeme) confirm the sale of 555.6 million shares at $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 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 — X.AI LLC, doing business as SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media. xAI's flagship pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceXAI

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Claim 4: “Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion”

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Multiple independent sources (Fox21, CBS News, Nbcwashington) report the Forbes valuation of Musk's net worth at $826 billion and SpaceX stake at $542 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion https://www.fox21online.com/news/national/ ...
https://www.facebook.com/fox21online/posts/forbes-currently-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion. The estimated value of his SpaceX holdings ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-ipo-biggest-ever-elon-mu…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion. SpaceX plans biggest stock market debut ...
https://x.com/CBSNewsTexas/status/2062550696818307454

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Claim 5: “SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources (NPR, BBC) confirm that SpaceX had an IPO on June 12, 2026, raising $75 billion.

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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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Claim 6: “Musk... started xAI in 2023 with 11 other co-founders who have all since left”

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Claim 7: “In its IPO filing, SpaceX says it sees potential revenue from AI of up to $26.5 trillion”

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Claim 8: “Earlier this week, Anthropic submitted a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to officially start its own IPO clock”

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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 9: “Musk's voting power will come primarily through his ownership of 5.22 billion Class B shares, which give the holder 10 votes for every share held”

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The detail regarding 5.22 billion Class B shares and 10 votes per share is only reported by Nbcwashington; other search results are irrelevant.

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web search NEUTRAL — When I was in Berlin at the end of last month, I was chatting with my pal Mo, and noted a sticker I’d seen that said “ELON MUSK DIDN’T GET INTO BERGHAIN” with a QR code that linked to: https://berling…
http://tantek.com/?name=Recent+Articles

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web search NEUTRAL — I realized those two goals had something in common: being a billionaire makes no difference to achieving them. Being a billionaire won’t help you achieve them. You can’t buy your way into Berghain, yo…
https://tantek.com/2025/238/t1/anti-billionaire-bucketlist

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 20, 2023 · However, in the post Elon-acquisition of Twitter and subsequent Twexodus, as Anil Dash noted^3, “nobody ran to the ’web3’ platforms”, and nobody ran to SoLiD either. The other spec, Web…
https://tantek.com/2023/051/t1/five-years-ago-w3c-social-web

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Claim 10: “According to the filing, Musk would have 82.4% of the voting power in the company”

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Both Nbcwashington and EuroNews independently report that Musk would have roughly 82.4% of the voting power.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — According to the filing, Musk would have 82.4% of the voting power in the company.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/sp…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Through his holdings of Class B shares, which carry 10 votes each, the SpaceX chief executive would retain roughly 82.4% of voting power after the listing.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/04/spacex-sets-ipo…

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Claim 11: “The company plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol "SPCX"”

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Claim 12: “The estimated value of his SpaceX holdings was based on an overall value for the company of $1.25 trillion”

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The specific company valuation of $1.25 trillion used for the Forbes estimate is only mentioned in the Nbcwashington cross-reference.

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web search NEUTRAL — The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various…
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web search NEUTRAL — The dollar sign, $, is connected with the peso, contrary to popular belief, which considers it to be an abbreviation of 'U.S.' The two parallel lines represented one of the many abbreviations of 'P,' …
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web search NEUTRAL — May 16, 2026 · The history of the U.S. dollar and dollar sign is more complex than people might think. Here’s the best theory for where the $ came from.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/surprisingly-myster…

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Claim 13: “The offering would also give SpaceX a market value of $1.77 trillion”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources (The Motley Fool, 94.5 The Buzz) confirm the valuation of $1.77 trillion.

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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillionaire

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Claim 14: “Only six companies in the S&P 500 are currently worth more, with Nvidia tops at $5.2 trillion”

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The specific claim about only six companies being worth more and Nvidia being at $5.2 trillion is only found in the Nbcwashington cross-reference; other web results provide general market cap lists but not this specific ranking/number.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nvidia DGX (Deep GPU Xceleration) is a series of servers and workstations designed by Nvidia, primarily geared towards enhancing deep learning applications through the use of general-purpose compu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_DGX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded computing boards from Nvidia. The Jetson TK1, TX1 and TX2 models all carry a Tegra processor (or SoC) from Nvidia that integrates an ARM architecture central proc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Jetson

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Claim 15: “The estimated proceeds would easily top the $26 billion raised by oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019”

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Wikipedia explicitly states that Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO was the largest until the SpaceX IPO on June 11, 2026, and web results confirm SpaceX's $75 billion raised is roughly three times the size of Aramco's.

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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Sau…

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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…
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