Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. But, and tweets, He is also looking for more money. Bloomberg reports that SpaceX, the space firm run by the billionaire, would have presented the necessary documentation to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to make the jump to the stock market. It will be, according to many analysts, the largest public sale operation in history.
With this IPO, SpaceX hopes to raise $75 billion. To date, the largest IPO in history was carried out by the oil company Saudi Aramco, which raised 29 billion when it jumped into the stock markets. In addition, Musk hopes that SpaceX will be the first company in history to exceed $1 billion in market capitalization upon its market debut.
In fact, according to analysts’ estimates, SpaceX is expected to achieve a valuation close to two billion dollars (1.75), putting itself ahead of giants like Meta (the owner of Facebook or Instagram) or Walmart in capitalization. Raising $75 billion is outrageous. The entire US IPO market has only raised more money… in two of the last ten years.
The news has not yet been officially confirmed by either SpaceX or Musk: the tycoon for the moment He has not reacted on his X profile. Bloomberg assures that the documentation has already been filed with the SEC, according to two sources “familiar with the matter” who have asked not to be identified since the information would remain confidential at this time.
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What is happening at the moment Bloomberg is that SpaceX has already provided the draft application IPO before the SEC. This part of the procedure is common: companies usually communicate to the US regulator their intentions to receive feedbackin case it is necessary to make any type of change or legal reserve before the offer is made official and made public.
If corroborated, SpaceX could begin trading on the stock market in June of this same year. The idea of SpaceX going public had already been talked about for several weeks. The company itself had confirmed this to analysts some time ago, warning that they hoped to be able to meet this milestone throughout 2026. With the news it announced this Wednesday BloombergSpaceX and Elon Musk are also ahead of other large and long-awaited departures.
It is expected, in fact, that in this same 2026 also from artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI (owner and developer of ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude).
The paved path
Elon Musk has been paving the way for this IPO. Proof of this are the corporate operations that he has carried out with his own companies. X, formerly known as Twitter, was bought by the billionaire with 44 billion dollars (most with bank loans) in 2022. Changed its name to the current brand.
Shortly after, Musk created xAI, the company with which he would compete with OpenAI after having ended badly with Sam Altman’s team. Some impulses and developments are conveyed from xAI, such as Grok, the controversial AI present in X. In February of last year, surprisingly, xAI bought X, valuing the first at 80,000 million dollars.
In February of this year the curl curled: SpaceX bought xAI with the promise of tying the development of AI to the construction of data centers and computing capacity in orbit. Musk, although he did not reveal any figures for the operation. Now, in a matter of months, the markets will be sovereign to know if the billionaire was right or not.
