{"id":8487,"date":"2026-04-04T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:37:26","slug":"spacex-confidentially-files-for-ipo-setting-stage-for-record-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8487\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX confidentially files for IPO, setting stage for record offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U (GOES-U) lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, June 25, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/a> SpaceX has confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission, sources told CNBC&#8217;s David Faber, bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/a> rocket company one step closer to what&#8217;s expected to be a record public offering. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-01\/spacex-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo-ahead-of-ai-rivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> was first to report on SpaceX&#8217;s confidential filing, citing people familiar with the matter, and adding that the company could seek a valuation of $1.75 trillion, with a listing around June. <\/p>\n<p>Founded by Musk in 2002 to develop and operate reusable rockets, SpaceX has turned into NASA&#8217;s biggest launch partner after the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/137712255\/the-end-of-the-space-shuttle-era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ended<\/a> its space shuttle program in 2011. The company merged with Musk&#8217;s xAI in February, creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/03\/musk-xai-spacex-biggest-merger-ever.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">combined entity<\/a> that he valued at the time at $1.25 trillion. <\/p>\n<p>When SpaceX eventually lists, Musk will become the first person to helm two separate trillion-dollar publicly traded companies. Musk is the world&#8217;s richest person, with a net worth of close to $840 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Forbes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a>, which Musk has counted on for the vast majority of his liquid wealth, has a market cap of around $1.4 trillion. <\/p>\n<p>A confidential filing allows companies to submit their financials to the SEC for regulatory review before revealing them to the public and prospective investors. SpaceX will have to release a public filing at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/about\/divisions-offices\/division-corporation-finance\/draft-registration-statement-processing-procedures-expanded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15 days<\/a> before its IPO road show.<\/p>\n<p>While SpaceX still has numerous hurdles to clear to reach the public market, the offering \u2014 assuming it does happen \u2014 will be packed with superlatives. With the company reportedly looking to raise up to $75 billion, it would be more than three times the size of the biggest U.S. IPO to date. China&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BABA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alibaba<\/a> raised $22 billion in 2014, putting it ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/V\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visa<\/a>, which raised close to $18 billion in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has received over $24.4 billion from its work with the federal government since 2008, according to FedScout, which researches federal spending and government contracts. That includes contracts from NASA, the Air Force and Space Force, among other agencies. Over the course of 2025, SpaceX conducted 165 orbital flights, and additional test flights of its new and massive Starship Super Heavy Launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Reena Aggarwal, a professor of finance at Georgetown and an IPO expert, said that even with all hype around Musk and SpaceX, the company still needs a receptive public market. Stocks have been volatile of late due largely to the U.S.-Iran war and spiking oil prices. The Nasdaq is coming off its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/27\/tech-stocks-iran-war-meta-verdict.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">steepest weekly drop<\/a> in nearly a year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can have a great company, with great fundamentals and a lot of investor interest \u2014 and an IPO can still flop if the markets have turned south, if there&#8217;s too much volatility in the market,&#8221; Aggarwal said. Hopefully the current geopolitical situations will have cooled down by June and there will be less uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, she anticipates a hefty dose of retail interest. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like five other companies like this will go public in the next five years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Anyone who wants more exposure to Elon Musk \u2014 this is their opportunity to get in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its massive aerospace and defense contracts, SpaceX also operates the Starlink satellite internet service, which runs on a constellation of around 10,000 satellites in lower-earth orbit. It also owns social network X, formerly known as Twitter, which was previously acquired by xAI. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/04\/01\/spacex-on-track-to-go-public-in-june-sources.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX on track to go public in June<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/108286124-SpaceX_on_track_to_go_public_in_June_according_to_sources.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX on track to go public in June, sources say\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[122],"tags":[6017,1010,3358,8011,2639,998,38,202,6716,3191,31,2638,1002,203,3541,4149,8013,2096,8012,584,6016,2082,8015,8014],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-elon-musk","tag-alibaba-group-holding-ltd","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-ark-innovation-etf","tag-autos","tag-boeing-co","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-general-motors-co","tag-ipo","tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-lockheed-martin-corp","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-musk","tag-northrop-grumman-corp","tag-procure-space-etf","tag-shift4-payments-inc","tag-spdr-sp-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-state-street-spdr-sp-kensho-final-frontiers-etf","tag-technology","tag-tesla-inc","tag-venture-capital","tag-viasat-inc","tag-visa-inc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}