SpaceX filed terms for a public offering valuing the company at $150 billion pre-money, with pricing expected to close by June 16 and trading to begin June 23 under ticker SPACE on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is offering 87 million Class A shares at $85 to $95 per share, raising between $7.4 billion and $8.3 billion in primary capital. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are joint leads. Robinhood, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, E-Trade, and SoFi confirmed they are negotiating allocation buckets, but none have disclosed final retail share counts.
The offering structure breaks from standard IPO mechanics in three places. First, Class A shares carry one vote per share, but Elon Musk retains super-voting Class B shares at ten votes each, preserving his 54 percent voting control post-IPO despite owning only 42 percent of economic equity. Second, the company is permitting existing shareholders to sell up to 15 percent of their holdings in a concurrent secondary, adding $4 billion to $5 billion in liquidity without diluting the primary raise. Third, the prospectus includes a directed share program reserving 12 percent of the offering for Starlink customers and SpaceX employees, bypassing traditional institutional priority. This last feature is generating friction with underwriters, who typically control 85 percent to 90 percent of allocations.
The timing compresses capital markets assumptions about pre-IPO behavior. SpaceX last raised private capital in March at a $210 billion post-money valuation, meaning the IPO represents a 29 percent discount to recent venture marks. That gap is intentional. The company structured the offering to price below secondary market clearing levels, ensuring first-day appreciation and avoiding the stumbles that plagued recent large-cap debuts. The prospectus cites $12.1 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue and $2.9 billion in EBITDA, putting the valuation at 12.4x revenue and 51.7x EBITDA at the midpoint. Comparables are thin. Boeing trades at 1.8x revenue, but carries legacy defense exposure and no reusable launch margin. The closest structural analog is Tesla's 2010 IPO, which priced at $17 and closed day one at $23.89, a 40 percent pop.
Retail access is the variable allocators are tracking hour by hour. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC on Monday the platform has secured "meaningful allocation," but declined to specify share count or per-account caps. Fidelity's IPO Access platform, which served 31 million retail accounts in 2025, is expected to open SpaceX subscriptions by Wednesday. Schwab and E-Trade have not confirmed timing. The lack of coordinated retail windows is unusual for an offering of this scale. It reflects SpaceX's insistence on controlling distribution directly, rather than delegating to syndicate managers. That decision creates execution risk. If retail platforms open access at staggered times, early subscribers may lock up demand before institutional anchors finalize orders, compressing the book and forcing underwriters to pull forward pricing decisions.
Operators should watch three follow-on events. First, the directed share program closes June 13, two business days before institutional bookbuilding ends. If employee and customer demand exceeds the reserved 10.4 million shares, the company can reallocate from the institutional tranche, tightening available float. Second, the greenshoe option allows underwriters to sell an additional 13 million shares if the offering is oversubscribed, effectively increasing the deal size to $9.6 billion at the high end. Third, the lock-up agreement permits Musk and other insiders to sell after 90 days, half the standard 180-day window, meaning secondary supply could return to the market by late September.
The last comparable event of this scale was Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in September 2014, which priced at $68, opened at $92.70, and closed day one at $93.89. SpaceX is tracking to exceed that nominal raise by $8 billion if the greenshoe is exercised and pricing lands at the high end.
The takeaway
SpaceX's **$150B** valuation IPO closes June 16; retail platform access negotiations remain fluid, with directed shares creating institutional allocation pressure.
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