SpaceX has set the price of its initial public offering at 135 dollars per share, implying a market value of about 1.77 trillion dollars, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated June 3 and June 4. The company plans to issue 555.6 million Class A shares and expects to raise 74.4 billion dollars net, or up to 85.7 billion dollars if underwriters fully exercise their options. The stock will list on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas under the ticker SPCX.
Business model: from rockets to infrastructure platform
In its listing documents, SpaceX positions itself not as a pure rocket manufacturer but as a broad infrastructure platform combining orbital transport, satellite connectivity, and AI data processing. The company says it is uniquely integrating hardware and software across these three layers, tying together xAI, Grok, X and its Colossus computing cluster in a single operating model.
Since 2023, SpaceX reports it has accounted for more than 80 percent of global orbital mass launched and has completed around 650 launches. It operates more than 9,600 Starlink satellites that serve 10.3 million users in 164 countries and regions. The X and Grok platforms together report 550 million monthly active users and 350 million daily posts. The company says its AI computing infrastructure already runs at more than 1 gigawatt of power capacity.
Financial outlook: rapid growth, continuing losses
SpaceX forecasts total revenue of 18.7 billion dollars in 2025, with adjusted EBITDA of 6.6 billion dollars but a GAAP net loss of 4.9 billion dollars. Capital expenditure is projected to rise sharply, from 4.4 billion dollars in 2023 to 11.2 billion in 2024 and 20.7 billion in 2025. The company’s outlook for the first quarter of 2026 still shows a loss of 4.3 billion dollars.
Connectivity, driven mainly by Starlink, is expected to be the core profit engine. For 2025, the company projects 11.4 billion dollars in connectivity revenue and 7.2 billion dollars in adjusted EBITDA. The space segment is forecast to generate 4.1 billion dollars in revenue and 700 million dollars in adjusted EBITDA. The AI unit is projected to post 3.2 billion dollars in revenue but a loss of 1.2 billion dollars, reflecting heavy upfront build‑out costs.
A large share of the planned capital spending is tied to AI. Of the 2025 capex, 12.7 billion dollars is earmarked for building data centers for the AI division, underscoring an aggressive, front‑loaded strategy to secure a long‑term technology base rather than near‑term profitability.
Valuation gap: pricing beyond current fundamentals
The IPO pricing places SpaceX well above several widely cited valuation models. Morningstar assigns the company a fair value of 780 billion dollars. A model from New York University’s Aswath Damodaran estimates 1.22 trillion dollars, while Baillie Gifford values its stake at an implied 1.25 trillion dollars. The 1.77 trillion dollar IPO figure sits materially above all three.
At that level, SpaceX is valued at roughly 110 times its expected 2025 revenue. Based on its last twelve months of revenue through March 2026, the price‑to‑sales ratio falls between 90 and 103. That compares with an estimated multiple of about 16 for Tesla and around 21 for Nvidia, underscoring how far SpaceX’s pricing departs from even other high‑growth technology names.
Analysts say this valuation signals that buyers of the offering are paying a sizable premium for anticipated network effects and future platform dominance, rather than for current financial performance. Some on Wall Street model the company as a future global infrastructure backbone for space transport, connectivity and AI. Others are more cautious, arguing that key elements of the AI division are still unproven and that the upside at the IPO price looks limited.
Owens at Morningstar values the company at less than half its IPO target and highlights the execution risk embedded in the AI narrative. Damodaran’s framework also points to modest upside from current levels, assuming more conservative penetration of the massive markets SpaceX cites.
Governance: control and pushback
Control of the company will remain highly concentrated after the listing. Elon Musk is set to hold roughly 82.4 percent of the voting power through Class B shares, which carry ten votes each versus one vote for the publicly offered Class A shares.
This dual‑class structure has drawn criticism from pension funds and state asset managers overseeing more than 1 trillion dollars. These groups have called for a move toward a one‑share‑one‑vote structure or, at minimum, a sunset provision that phases out super‑voting rights within seven years. Their stance aligns with a broader shift among large funds toward governance frameworks that reduce entrenched control and increase accountability over time.
Growth story: huge markets, long timelines
In its roadshow, SpaceX highlights three major growth pillars. For Starlink, it points to potential addressable markets exceeding 1.6 trillion dollars, broken down into about 870 billion dollars for broadband and 740 billion dollars for mobile connectivity. The AI segment is linked to an even larger reference market, with company material citing figures around 26.5 trillion dollars, echoing analyst projections that AI could add more than 15 trillion dollars to global economic output by 2030.
SpaceX plans to launch dedicated AI computing satellites around 2028, extending its infrastructure model beyond Earth‑based data centers into orbit. The company’s valuation pitch leans on capturing even a small share of these enormous future markets, an approach that assumes a long time horizon and a high tolerance for uncertainty.
Premium built on vision
The IPO recasts SpaceX as a multi‑layered infrastructure enterprise that blends space transport, global connectivity and AI capacity under one corporate umbrella. The deal’s high price‑to‑sales multiple, heavy near‑term losses and concentrated governance structure mean traders must judge how much of today’s valuation rests on eventually converting that vision into durable cash flows and how much is tied to story‑driven expectations and a control premium around Musk’s leadership.
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