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Investing.com -- SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion and seeking to raise $75 billion, more than 2.5 times the previous record set by Saudi Aramco (TADAWUL:2222) in 2019. The scale alone rewrites the record books. But the more interesting argument for "unique" runs deeper than the headline number.

SpaceX spent over two decades as a private company, accumulating more than $10 billion in venture capital funding while remaining almost entirely inaccessible to ordinary investors. That changes today for the first time. A wave of institutional holders, including Founders Fund, DFJ, D1 Capital, Fidelity, and Thrive Capital, along with thousands of early employees, are reaching their first genuine exit opportunity after years of holding illiquid paper.

The offering structure breaks convention further. SpaceX has allocated up to 30% of the IPO to retail investors through Robinhood, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, SoFi, and E*TRADE, roughly triple the 5 to 10% standard for major public offerings. Demand has reportedly reached $150 billion against $75 billion in available shares.

Nasdaq changed its rules specifically to allow SpaceX to join the Nasdaq 100 after just 15 trading days, down from the previous three-month minimum. BNP Paribas estimates Nasdaq 100 inclusion alone will generate approximately $8 billion in forced passive buying within the first month of listing, with total passive fund purchases potentially reaching $30 billion.

The February 2026 merger with xAI means investors are purchasing exposure to launch infrastructure, satellite broadband, and AI compute in a single instrument, a combination with no real precedent in public market history.

Analysts estimate the offering will create approximately 4,000 new millionaires, from senior executives to engineers and support staff who received equity over years of employment.

Below, I discuss the most important points for those looking to buy into the IPO.

Three Businesses, One Ticker: SpaceX’s Revenue Structure

The $18.7 billion in 2025 revenue that headlines the S-1 filing carries an important caveat: it is the product of common-control accounting, a GAAP convention that allows companies with a shared controlling shareholder to retroactively consolidate their financials.

Because Elon Musk controlled SpaceX, xAI, and X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) simultaneously, the S-1 presents all three as a single entity for all periods shown, including 2023 and 2024, even though the formal merger was only completed in February 2026. The revenue growth story investors are reading covers three distinct businesses that were independently run until six months ago.

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At the segment level, the company is three businesses with radically different financial profiles operating under the same stock price.

Starlink, the satellite broadband service, is the financial engine. It generated $11.4 billion in revenue in 2025, representing 61% of the total, and produced $4.4 billion in operating income at a margin of approximately 39%. Subscriber growth has been extraordinary: from 2.3 million users at the end of 2023 to 8.9 million by the end of 2025 and 10.3 million by the first quarter of 2026.

That growth has come at a cost to average revenue per user, which declined from $99 per month in 2023 to $66 by Q1 2026, reflecting SpaceX’s deliberate strategy of trading unit economics for global penetration. In May 2026, SpaceX raised Starlink plan prices for the first time, signaling a potential shift toward monetizing its installed base.Starlink

The Space segment, which encompasses rocket launches for commercial and government customers, generated $4.1 billion in 2025 revenue but ran a $657 million operating loss, almost entirely driven by the $3 billion invested in Starship research and development.

Operationally, the launch business is dominant globally: SpaceX completed approximately 165 Falcon 9 launches in 2025 and holds roughly 90% of the global commercial launch share by mass-to-orbit. Of those launches, fewer than half were for external customers. The majority served Starlink internally.

The AI segment, incorporating xAI’s computing infrastructure, the Grok large language model, and X’s advertising and subscription revenue, generated $3.2 billion in 2025 revenue against a $6.4 billion operating loss.

Of SpaceX’s $20.7 billion in total capex in 2025, $12.7 billion went to AI infrastructure, including the COLOSSUS data center in Memphis, currently the largest coherent AI training cluster on earth. In Q1 2026 alone, the AI segment produced an operating loss of $2.47 billion.Revenue Segment

The summary picture: Starlink is profitable and growing rapidly. The Space segment is deliberately loss-making, investing in Starship, the infrastructure that could reduce launch costs by an order of magnitude. The AI segment is consuming Starlink’s profits in full and then some. Without the xAI merger, SpaceX posted a $791 million net profit in 2024. With it, the company posted a $4.94 billion net loss in 2025 and a $4.28 billion loss in Q1 2026 alone.

The IPO prospectus also discloses $29.1 billion in total long-term debt as of March 2026, of which $20 billion is a short-term bridge loan that must be repaid within six months of a successful listing.

A fourth dimension not reflected in the current financial structure is the possibility of an eventual merger between SpaceX and Tesla. Wolfe Research notes that prediction markets are pricing in a 56% probability that a combination will complete before mid-2027. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives places the probability at 80% or higher.

The strategic logic centers on consolidated voting control for Musk, the AI synergies between Tesla’s autonomous-driving data and SpaceX’s compute infrastructure, and the combined capital base that a single entity would command. China is the primary regulatory obstacle, given that US defense and space companies face broad restrictions on operating there, and Tesla derives approximately 19% of its revenues from the country.

The thesis does not affect today’s IPO valuation directly, but it explains why a meaningful proportion of Tesla shareholders hold the stock as a proxy for SpaceX exposure, and why the two companies are already more intertwined than their separate structures suggest: Tesla converted its $2 billion xAI investment into SpaceX shares following the February 2026 merger.

Will it be included in the S&P 500?

S&P Global declined to change its index inclusion rules, which means the world’s most tracked benchmark will not hold one of the ten most valuable publicly listed companies for at least a year. S&P 500 inclusion requires a 12-month seasoning period after listing, four quarters of cumulative GAAP profitability, and a minimum 10% public float. SpaceX currently fails two of those three tests.

The decision protects the index’s reputation for standards-based methodology. With roughly $20 trillion invested in or benchmarked to the S&P 500, any deviation from established rules risks weakening the consistency that passive investors rely on. As Art Hogan of B. Riley Wealth noted, making exceptions for large but still unprofitable companies does not make much sense.

The representativeness argument cuts back, however. A top-ten company by market capitalization that sits outside the most-followed equity index creates a measurable benchmark gap. Investors in S&P 500 tracking funds will not own a company that, by market cap, belongs in the conversation with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). That structural underweight has no remedy for at least twelve months, and it arrives precisely as an estimated $14 billion in passive buying from S&P 500 funds sits on the sidelines waiting for profitability to be demonstrated.

The decision also hands active managers a clear alpha opportunity. Any fund benchmarked against the S&P 500 can buy SpaceX now and position ahead of the eventual forced passive buying that S&P 500 inclusion will trigger.

The broader question this raises is whether the index’s methodology is built for an era when trillion-dollar companies can spend two decades in private markets before listing. SpaceX is the first real test. OpenAI and Anthropic, both targeting IPOs in 2026, face the same threshold. If all three remain outside the S&P 500 for a year and perform well in the interim, the pressure on the index committee to revisit its rules will be considerable.

Only 4.3% of the Company Will Trade on Day One

The $75 billion raise and the 30% retail allocation are two different numbers describing two different things. SpaceX is selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each, implying a total valuation of $1.77 trillion. That $75 billion represents approximately 4.3% of the total company. The remaining 95.7% remains locked up in the hands of existing shareholders, none of whom are selling any shares as part of this offering.

The 30% retail figure describes how that 4.3% slice is divided: 30% of the IPO proceeds, worth roughly $22.5 billion, is reserved for retail investors. Retail investors are therefore receiving about 1.3% of the total company.

The result is that the IPO prices 100% of a $1.75 trillion business based on the trading of 4.3% of its shares, into a partially forced-buy environment created by index inclusion mechanics, with most sellers locked out. Price discovery under those conditions reflects supply-and-demand mechanics more than any consensus view of fundamental value.

The lock-up structure governing the other 95.7% is deliberately staggered. After SpaceX reports its first quarterly results covering the April to June period, insiders become eligible to sell up to 20% of their locked-up shares, with an additional 10% unlocking if the stock is trading at least 30% above the offering price. Five time-based tranches at 70, 90, 105, 120, and 135 days each release a further 7% of eligible shares.

A further 28% unlocks after the Q3 earnings report, with the full remainder coming off restriction at 180 days. Elon Musk, who controls approximately 42% of equity and 85% of voting power, is subject to a separate 366-day restriction. One notable exception: a 5% friends-and-family carve-out carries no lockup, meaning roughly $3.75 billion of shares could reach the market on day one.

Is a 4.3% Float Normal?

It is well below any standard applied to mature public companies or even to recent IPOs. Most established index stocks trade with free floats above 80%. The S&P 500 requires a minimum 10% public float for membership eligibility. Nasdaq’s own rules required at least 10% until the exchange removed the threshold entirely in May 2026, a change introduced specifically to accommodate SpaceX.Free Float

Among comparable mega-cap listings, the closest historical parallel is Saudi Aramco, which floated 1.5% of the company in 2019 and, six years later, still sits at just 2.4% float. That offering was widely described at the time as not reflecting genuine market pricing, in part because of how little real price discovery was possible at that float level. SpaceX’s 4.3% is meaningfully higher than Aramco’s initial float, but sits in the same structural category.

Among the major tech IPOs more commonly used as benchmarks, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) listed at approximately 15% and eventually expanded to 86%. Google and Facebook each floated roughly 18 to 19% at their respective debuts. By the end of a standard lock-up period, it is typical for a company’s free float to reach 50-60% of total equity. SpaceX starts at 4.3% and will expand incrementally over six months before approaching anything like normal trading liquidity. The academic research on low-float IPOs offers a pointed historical note: since 1980, all but one large U.S. IPO that initially floated less than 5% of its stock underperformed the market over the subsequent three years.

A counterpoint comes from Oppenheimer’s analysis of three comparable small-float listings. Google floated 7.2% in August 2004, gained 18% on Day 1, and never retraced its first-day close, returning 92% through year-end and a further 100% in its second year as a public company.

LinkedIn issued approximately 8% of shares in May 2011, surged 109% on Day 1, pulled back 33% through year-end, then recovered 79% in Year 2. Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) listed at roughly 9.5% float in September 2023, rose 25% on Day 1, and returned 64% in its second year.

Near-term volatility following a constrained-float debut does not preclude strong long-term performance for companies with genuine operational moats. SpaceX, at 4.3%, sits below all three precedents, and the quality of its underlying business will ultimately determine the trajectory it follows.Small-Float IPO Comparables

Priced at Over 40x Sales: What History Says

The foundational research on IPO long-run performance comes from Jay Ritter at the University of Florida, whose data covering thousands of IPOs since the 1970s has been continuously updated. The headline finding is that buying at the first-day close, the realistic entry point for retail investors, puts buyers at a structural disadvantage regardless of the company. Investors who buy at the offer price see a three-year market-adjusted return of approximately negative 3.3%. Investors who buy at the first-day close, after the typical day-one pop, start from negative 20.5%.

SpaceX sits at the intersection of several risk factors that Ritter’s data identifies as compounding predictors of long-term underperformance.

The valuation multiple is the most severe. IPOs with price-to-sales ratios above 40 times have trailed the market by 58 percentage points over three years in Ritter’s dataset, despite averaging a 93.6% first-day gain.

SpaceX’s price-to-sales ratio at the IPO valuation is approximately 94 times, more than double the threshold that already carries that record. Of the 14 IPOs in Ritter’s data with revenues above $100 million and price-to-sales ratios above 40, 12 subsequently underperformed the market over their first three years if purchased at the first-day close.

Argus Research’s peer analysis of the five largest US-listed technology companies finds them trading at an average price-to-sales ratio of 12.2 times. SpaceX’s implied 92.1x represents a 7.5-fold premium to that group average, in a market where no comparable public company has ever sustained a multiple of this magnitude at this revenue scale.Price to Sales

Profitability compounds the picture. Unprofitable IPOs pop an average of 26.5% on day one but return negative 0.5% over three years, lagging the market by 30.7 percentage points. The market environment adds a further layer: Ritter’s research specifically found that companies going public in high-volume years fare worst. The 2026 IPO wave, with SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic together targeting more than $240 billion in combined raises, represents exactly the kind of concentrated, high-volume cycle that has historically produced the weakest cohort-level returns. A large first-day pop, which the mechanical setup of this offering almost guarantees, is itself a negative signal. The bigger the day-one gain, the more the underlying long-term underperformance tends to follow.Risk Scorecard

Sources: Jay R. Ritter, "Initial Public Offerings: Updated Long-run Statistics," University of Florida, March 2026 (4,110 IPOs, 1980-2024); Carson Group, June 2026; Summitward IPO data analysis, June 2026.

The counterargument deserves stating clearly. Ritter’s data covers averages across thousands of companies. SpaceX generates $18.7 billion in real revenue, has demonstrated 33% year-on-year growth, and holds near-monopoly positions in commercial launch and satellite broadband. The top 10% of IPOs in Ritter’s dataset earn average market-adjusted returns of over 300%. SpaceX could be in that cohort. But the base rate, across five risk factors this offering triggers simultaneously, argues against the retail buyer entering at the first-day close.

Are There Guardrails Preventing Institutional Share-Dumping on Retail?

At the IPO itself, the protection is real and total. The S-1 filing explicitly states that the share sale is limited to SpaceX as an entity, meaning that no existing holder, venture fund, early employee, or institutional investor is selling a single share as part of the offering. Every dollar of the $75 billion goes to the company. On day one, the guardrail holds.

The staggered lock-up structure then spreads the institutional exit across approximately six months rather than concentrating it in a single 180-day expiry event. This reduces the risk of a violent supply shock at any one moment and is meaningfully better for retail investors than the traditional cliff-style lockup.

Two caveats qualify that picture. The 5% friends-and-family carve-out carries no lockup, placing approximately $3.75 billion of shares in the hands of people who can sell starting on day one. More structurally, the staggered structure begins releasing shares far sooner than a conventional lockup would allow. The first window, 20% of eligible insider shares, opens after the Q2 earnings release in late July, six to eight weeks from today. A conventional 180-day lockup would have held that supply until December.

The staggered structure was not primarily designed to protect retail investors. It was engineered to expand the public float rapidly enough to maximize SpaceX’s weighting in the Nasdaq 100 after fast-track inclusion, which in turn increases the forced passive buying from index funds. Historical precedents are cautionary: Facebook’s 2012 IPO used a staggered lockup and shares had still fallen more than 40% from the offering price by the time it concluded. Palantir saw retail enthusiasm drive the stock from $10 to near $40 before insiders, including Peter Thiel, sold tens of millions of shares into that premium at lockup expiry. The stock fell 13% in a single session.

What About the Funds That Hold Positions?

The funds on SpaceX’s cap table represent a different category of seller from individual insiders and operate under structural pressures that the lock-up governs in timing but cannot dissolve. The major institutional holders include Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Alphabet, Baillie Gifford, D1 Capital Partners, and Fidelity, among others. Founders Fund and Valor Equity Partners are each sitting on positions worth more than $60 billion in paper gains. Sequoia invested approximately $2 billion in total and holds roughly 1.5% of the combined entity, implying returns exceeding $20 billion.

Traditional venture capital funds are legally obligated to return capital to their limited partners. That obligation does not expire with the lockup. DFJ and Founders Fund invested in SpaceX before its valuation reached $1 billion, more than 15 years ago. Many of the fund vehicles holding those original positions are approaching or past their designed lifespan. Once the lockup releases, distribution is a legal requirement.

Different fund structures will behave differently: evergreen crossover funds like ARK Invest are designed to hold companies through their full lifecycle and can trim positions gradually without a mandate to distribute, while mark-to-market hedge funds like D1 Capital and Coatue will act tactically.

The SPV layer introduces a complication that has received almost no mainstream coverage. A substantial portion of SpaceX shares are held through layered special-purpose vehicles, sometimes two or three tiers deep.

When the lockup releases for a first-layer SPV, that vehicle has 30 days to distribute shares to its own investors, who then have 30 days to distribute further down the chain. The result is a cascading distribution process extending well beyond the nominal lockup dates in the S-1, with investors at lower tiers potentially waiting months longer than the public calendar suggests. Some investors in these vehicles have reportedly not yet confirmed how many shares they will actually receive.

Who Is Selling at the IPO, and Who Is Not?

The cleanest summary of today’s actual mechanics: the institutional ecosystem is entirely locked out at the IPO. All selling pressure on day one comes from two sources: the new shares being issued by SpaceX itself and the $3.75 billion friends-and-family tranche that carries no restriction.

Retail investors receiving IPO allocations also face their own informal holding incentive. Fidelity enforces a 15-calendar-day tracking period, after which selling is penalty-free. Robinhood applies a 30-day window with a 60-day ban from future IPO access for first violations. SoFi may charge a $50 fee for any retail seller within the first 120 days. The brokers are managing short-term supply from the retail tranche, creating an informal lockup running in parallel with the institutional structure.

One detail worth noting for context: the "smart money" in this story was not entirely waiting for today. The pre-IPO secondary market for SpaceX shares has been one of the most actively traded in private market history for several years. Sophisticated holders who wanted partial liquidity before the IPO could access it through secondary transactions at prices climbing steadily since 2022. Some of the selling pressure that might otherwise concentrate after lockup expiry has already been absorbed, quietly, long before retail investors were ever involved.

The picture that emerges across the full structure is a liquidity event more carefully choreographed than any previous IPO of this scale: no institutional dumping at listing, a first day controlled by mechanical index-buying and retail demand, and a rolling six-month window of institutional distribution to follow. Whether that choreography is sufficient to hold the price at levels where retail buyers who enter today will still feel comfortable in 2029 is, as five decades of IPO research suggest, a genuinely open question.

Bottom Line

SpaceX’s IPO is a landmark event by every structural measure — the largest offering in market history, the first genuine public access to a company that defined a generation of private-market investing, and a liquidity mechanism assembled with more engineering than any comparable deal. The day-one protections for retail are real: no insider dumping, a staggered lockup, and a Musk stake that stays locked for a year. But the protections govern the opening act, not the full run.

Once the lockup windows open from late July onward, a wave of institutional distribution begins that has only one direction. Combined with a price-to-sales multiple that has no precedent among profitable mega-cap companies, an unprofitable income statement, a 4.3% float that compresses price discovery, and an IPO cycle that academic research has consistently identified as a risk period for retail buyers, the long-run risk profile for anyone entering at or above the first-day close is substantial.

SpaceX may well be the rare exception that rewrites the historical record. The honest read of the evidence, however, is that the smart money got in years ago, the index-inclusion mechanics will drive the first weeks of trading, and the retail investor who buys the excitement on Day 1 is the last link in a very long liquidity chain.

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SpaceX is expected to be the largest IPO ever. The company will likely raise at least $75 billion at a valuation of $1.78 trillion. It's a huge day for the market and retail investors, who will get to play an outsize role in the IPO. Here are 12 things they should know.

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1. SpaceX has three businesses

Investors should understand SpaceX's three businesses, which have similarities but are also very different.

The first business is the space launch unit, in which SpaceX builds rockets that can transport astronauts into space. The company's special sauce is its ability to reuse rockets, which enables it to launch at a much lower cost than ever before. As of March 31 of this year, it had completed 650 orbital launches.

SpaceX's second unit is connectivity: its Starlink low-Earth-orbit satellite internet business, which provides high-speed internet worldwide, even in areas with limited access to traditional internet infrastructure. The company has achieved this by launching over 10,000 satellites into orbit, aiming to eventually reach over 40,000. Starlink now has over 10 million subscribers.

The third unit is its artificial intelligence (AI) division, which it acquired when the company bought another company Musk owned, xAI, in a deal valued at $250 billion. xAI comprises the social media platform X, Grok intelligence, and several data centers. The unit also plans to develop a huge factory for its Terafab chip manufacturing in partnership with Tesla and Intel.

2. Starlink is the most profitable

Of the three units, Starlink is the most profitable thus far. The unit generated a $4.4 billion operating profit in 2025 and nearly $7.2 billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). In the first month of 2026, it generated a $1.2 billion operating profit and nearly $2.1 billion of adjusted EBITDA.

The financial strength makes sense given that Starlink has a subscription model that generates monthly recurring revenue. The company did see monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) decline from $86 in the first quarter of 2025 to $66 in the first quarter of 2026 as it rolled out lower-priced plans internationally.

3. AI has the most potential with a $26.5 trillion total addressable market

While Starlink has performed the best so far, the AI unit has performed the worst. In 2025, it generated an operating loss of roughly $6.4 billion and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $1.2 billion. The unit also had over $20 billion of capital expenditures in 2025 and the first quarter of 2026.

However, Musk has ambitions to put data centers into space, and if the Terafab facility comes to fruition, it would be one step closer to sovereign AI, in which the company has complete control over the AI stack from the intelligence to the chips to the data centers.

SpaceX, in its registration statement, said it believes the company has a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion, which is within shouting distance of the total U.S. gross domestic product. Of that number, $26.5 trillion is attributed to the AI unit, largely due to enterprise applications, which seem to broadly encompass AI solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments.

4. Goldman has reportedly said AI could multiply revenue by a factor of 100 by 2030

AI has so much potential that investment bankers at Goldman Sachs, one of the lead underwriters on the IPO, supposedly told prospective investors during SpaceX's road show that the AI unit is projected to grow revenue 100-fold by 2030.

Citing anonymous sources, the Financial Times reported that Goldman expects the AI unit to grow revenue from $3.2 billion in 2025 to $322 billion by 2030. Collectively, Goldman projects that SpaceX's revenue would grow from $18.7 billion in 2025 to $474 billion in 2030.

If that were true, investors would be buying SpaceX at slightly under four times 2030 revenue, which sounds a lot better than 96 times 2025 revenue.

5. SpaceX has begun to flex its muscles in its AI division

While Goldman's projection sounds outlandish, SpaceX has begun to show just how quickly it can ramp up revenue. In its prospectus, management unveiled a deal with Anthropic in which it will rent computing capacity in its data centers to Anthropic for $1.25 billion per month over the next three years.

More recently, SpaceX announced a deal with Alphabet's Google to lease computing capacity for $920 million per month. Combined with the Anthropic deal, that's already $2.2 billion per month, or over $26 billion per year.

Keep in mind that the deals aren't binding. Google can cancel the agreement with 90 days' notice starting in 2027, but this shows the potential power of the AI unit.

SpaceX has over 1 gigawatt of computing capacity, so it would likely need to build new data centers to keep scaling up. It's also unclear if its capacity will be this constrained forever, but Musk and the company have broad ambitions to launch data centers into space.

6. Musk will have unprecedented control

Prospective investors would be wise to make sure they like Musk at the helm of the company, because he'll be virtually impossible to remove as CEO. Largely through Class B super-voting shares, Musk controls over 85% of the company's combined voting power. After the IPO, he'll still control 82%.

7. The IPO is reportedly oversubscribed by twofold

Citing anonymous sources, Reuters recently reported that SpaceX's road show has been a success, with the IPO running two times oversubscribed, meaning there is $150 billion of investor demand.

In addition to its $75 billion raise, the underwriters have the option to purchase another $11.7 billion in shares. While it sounds great, being over two times subscribed on a popular IPO is not actually uncommon or that impressive.

However, considering it raised more than double that of Saudi Arabian Oil's IPO, the largest one until SpaceX, it certainly seems impressive, given the amount of capital being raised.

8. SpaceX is setting aside 30% of the IPO for retail investors

In another unprecedented move, SpaceX is allocating as much as 30% of the IPO to retail investors, who have previously been big fans of Musk and Tesla. Normally, companies will only allocate 5% to 10% to retail.

Investors will be able to request shares on five major brokerages, according to Barron's, including Robinhood, SoFi, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley's E*TRADE.

The ability for so many retail investors to get shares is exciting, but it could also make the stock more volatile, so they should be prepared for that.

9. The stock will be in most major market indexes within weeks of trading

Due to SpaceX's size, most market indexes have implemented new fast-track entry rules and waived profitability requirements to allow the company to join quickly.

Jacob Friedman, an investment manager at Focused Wealth Management, said the stock could be in nearly every major U.S. equity index within about three weeks of trading, according to MarketWatch. That means that every index fund and exchange-traded fund tracking these indexes must buy the stock.

It also means these funds are going to absorb a considerable amount of the shares sold in the IPO early, which could support the stock and take it high in the early weeks of trading.

10. It will have to wait to join the S&P 500

The broader benchmark S&P 500 index considered adopting new rules to fast-track SpaceX's entry, but ultimately chose not to pass them, meaning it will not be able to join the index until one year after it begins trading. The company will also have to be profitable.

11. Experts expect SpaceX to suck up liquidity from the market

While there seems to be strong demand for the IPO, at least given its size, all the flows into SpaceX may come from outflows from other names. With so much potentially going into retail portfolios, it's possible this cohort sells other stocks to make room for the IPO. This could put pressure on the market.

"Selling flows in recent winners and levered products from retail to invest in SpaceX could be very large," Greg Boutle, head of U.S. equity derivative strategy at BNP Paribas, said in a recent research note, according to Fortune.

Boutle projects that retail and passive investors could unload $50 billion of other stocks to raise capital for SpaceX.

12. Insiders and company employees have a staggered lockup period

Lockup provisions prevent company insiders with a large stake in the company -- as well as employees with shares -- from selling their shares immediately after a company goes public. The standard lockup policy is about 180 days.

However, SpaceX has a staggered lockup policy. On the day of trading after SpaceX reports its earnings results for the quarter ended June 30, those subject to the lockup period will be able to sell 20% of their shares. Another 10% can be sold if the stock is up at least 30% from the IPO price.

After that, insiders and employees will be able to sell an additional 7% of their shares on the 70th, 90th, 105th, 120th, and 135th days after the IPO. All shares will be eligible for sale 180 days after the IPO. The lockup does not apply to Musk, who must wait one year to sell any of his stock.

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SpaceX's (NASDAQ: SPCX) long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) has ignited investor excitement unlike anything seen in years. Last week, news broke that the company set a fixed offering price of $135 per share. For an everyday investor armed with some capital, this price tag appears accessible -- opening the door to a stake in Elon Musk's space exploration and AI empire.

Smart investors understand that IPO stocks come with far more sobering realities, however. Let's explore the harsh mechanics of IPO stocks before retail investors pile into SpaceX's upcoming offering.

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How much does a $10,000 investment buy in the SpaceX IPO?

Let's start with the cold math. A $10,000 initial investment at the $135 offering price will buy you roughly 74 shares. Here's the catch: IPO shares are not allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Brokerage firms receive a limited pool of shares from the IPO underwriters. This means that retail investors are competing against demand from institutional companies and high-net-worth clients. In other words, a $10,000 deposit doesn't guarantee 74 shares. While SpaceX's offering price is fixed, your actual execution price boils down to how brokerages rotate their allotments.

What brokerage firms have access to the SpaceX IPO?

Participating in an IPO requires having an account with one of the major brokerages that have secured access to the SpaceX offering. These platforms include Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood Markets, and SoFi Technologies.

These platforms offer online applications that take just a few minutes to complete. For the SpaceX IPO in particular, account minimums are zero for Robinhood and SoFi. Charles Schwab requires investors to have a minimum balance of $100,000, while Fidelity lowered its threshold to just $2,000.

Eligibility for IPO investing can be stricter than simply having available cash. Brokerages generally check your account tenure and trading history, and they may assess your total assets (or available liquidity).

Are IPOs smart opportunities for retail investors?

The overwhelming likelihood for a $10,000 order is a partial fill or, more commonly, no fill at all. When SpaceX stock actually lists on the Nasdaq on Friday, the shares that retail investors missed at the $135 offering price will trade in the open market.

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Stock market history is filled with examples of newly public high-profile companies that pop on the first day of trading, fueled by pent-up demand. These dynamics were on full display during the Cerebras Systems IPO, and in offerings from Figma, Snowflake, and Palantir Technologies in recent years.Data by YCharts.

Suddenly, the offering price climbs much higher in an otherwise short window. More often than not, chasing the premium after missing the offering price turns disciplined investments into emotional gambles. Moreover, if the stock later corrects -- which is common for hot IPOs -- investors who paid frothy prices end up holding the bag.

At the end of the day, a $10,000 investment in the SpaceX IPO will likely deliver far less ownership and far more frustration than headlines currently suggest. While straightforward math promises 74 shares at a $135 cost basis, the underlying process comes with a high degree of uncertainty and slim odds of an allocation. For most retail investors, the more prudent path to investing in SpaceX is to watch from the sidelines rather than following the crowd for now.

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There are various ways investors can get a piece of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Credit: Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images

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Several funds that hold private shares of SpaceX in various capacities have seen an influx of new money in May ahead of an IPO that could arrive this week. Funds tracking the Nasdaq 100, such as the popular Invesco QQQ Trust, will buy shares as "SPCX" is fast-tracked into major benchmark indexes. Fidelity, Schwab, Robinhood and SoFi are offering retail investors IPO shares, but they come with a process and certain conditions.

When the front door's mobbed, you can try the back.

Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, looks poised to debut on public markets later this week. The company has allocated a large share of its offering for retail investors, but those interested in owning the company—but may be unable or unwilling to try to get in on the first-day action, or would prefer to get less-direct exposure—have plenty of other options, including mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that already own shares of the private company in various capacities. Even more, including benchmark-tracking index funds and thematic funds, will buy the stock after it lists.

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Some people like frenzied shopping, while others would rather skip the line and the chaos. For investors who want to own shares in SpaceX without the first-day hullabaloo, there are options.

Some of them come from longtime supporters of Elon Musk. One, billionaire investor Ron Baron, has two investment vehicles offering exposure: a mutual fund, Baron Partners (BPTIX), and an ETF, Baron First Principles (RONB). SpaceX is the largest holding of the former, with a 23% weighting as of the end of May, and a more modest 2.3% weighting in the latter as of last Friday. Both own the private shares directly.

The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (XOVR), which aims to hold "public innovators" and some late-stage private companies, has a 13% weighting in SpaceX through a special purpose vehicle. The fund will hold the SPV until the expiration of a lock-up period, after which it will hold the regular stock. Joel Shulman, chief executive and chief investment officer of ERShares, told Investopedia that the firm is a long-term investor in the company and will likely add to its position over time. Tema Space Innovators ETF (NASA), a thematic ETF that invests in the "emerging space economy," has a 6.5% weighting in SpaceX through an SPV.

Those four funds together saw $7.9 billion in combined net flows last month in the lead-up to SpaceX's public debut, according to Morningstar. That could mean some investors who plowed into the funds for SpaceX exposure decide to pull their money in favor of owning the stock outright. "Whatever scarcity value these funds and ETFs have derived from the pre-IPO exposure they've afforded expires" when SpaceX starts trading, Morningstar's Jeff Ptak said last week; if investors bail on them, and fund managers face redemptions, Ptak said, their portfolios "could shrink around the SpaceX position, increasing its weighting."

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The Next Wave

In the days after SpaceX goes public, major indexes such as the Nasdaq 100 and the Russell 1000 are expected to fast-track the company into their measures, effectively forcing popular index-tracking funds to buy the stock. That means funds like the iShares Russell 1000 ETF (IWB) and the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) will offer their investors exposure once the indexes include the stock, which will likely support the price of the shares. That could lift the stock ahead of those announcements.

"Whenever it's known that there's a major addition to an index, there's always a run-up in price, because speculators buy it on the assumption that the capital markets teams behind the big index funds are going to make a big cash market-on-close purchase," Elisabeth Kashner, Director of Global Funds Research at FactSet, told Investopedia.

Some thematic ETFs aim to hold large new issues. The First Trust US Equity Opportunities (FPX) fund is expected to buy SpaceX after its IPO, while the Renaissance IPO (IPOS) fund will evaluate it for inclusion in September.

For those who do want to buy the shares directly, there's always the open market—though some investors can buy shares at the IPO price via select brokerages—including E*Trade, Fidelity, Robinhood, Schwab and SoFi—if they meet certain conditions: Investors generally have to request shares, aren't guaranteed an allotment, and must follow "no flipping" policies, meaning they can't turn around and immediately sell their shares.

Fidelity lowered its barriers to access for SpaceX's IPO shares, making anyone with $2,000 or more in account balance, versus a typical gate in the six digits, eligible for an allocation. Investors who confirm their interest in time after the IPO is officially priced will see shares land in their accounts before the market opens on listing day. Fidelity customers who receive IPO shares and sell them within the first 15 calendar days of trading, however, will be blocked from participating in an IPO for six months; second- or third-time flippers are blocked for a year, and then permanently. Robinhood and SoFi each also have "no flipping" policies that apply for the first 30 days.

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