Juan Hernandez, a former SpaceX employee, owns 6,500 company shares. On the first day of public trading, his wealth ballooned by $1,046,175.
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The biggest IPO in history just churned out a major windfall for Wall Street's biggest banks.
The rocket company might never accomplish all it has told investors, but it has met the original goal of reigniting interest in space.
The historic moment on June 12, 2026, when SpaceX officially began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX after completing a record-setting $75 billion initial public offering. Analysts discuss the controlled nature of the IPO, its massive financial impact on Elon Musk and company employees, and what future milestones investors should look out for next.

StockBrokers.com director of investor research Jessica Inskip chats with Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre about SpaceX's (SPCX) initial public offering (IPO), highlighting how options trading will add a "third dimension" to trading.

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) inch higher to end Friday's session and the trading week with slight gains, as SpaceX (SPCX) closes its first day of trading 19.22% higher at a share price of $160.95. From the Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma breaks down the post-IPO performance Elon Musk's space company.
Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Market Domination to tackle today's top trending tickers, including the momentum driving SpaceX (SPCX) shares in Friday's session after the company's IPO, the impact it is having on other space stocks Virgin Galactic (SPCE) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), and how semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are moving on the historic public offering.

JPMorgan will host a post-IPO celebration for SpaceX employees on the top floor of JPMorgan’s Manhattan headquarters on June 12. The event was envisioned by Jamie Dimon and pitched directly to Elon Musk. It features a custom rooftop light display designed by artist Leo Villareal and shown here as a render. It will include a SpaceX themed spread including SpaceX themed cocktails and a rocket cake. The bank, which just earned $75 million serving as a lead underwriter to the rocket company’s IPO, expects 250 SpaceX employees to attend.
Lossdog Founder & CEO Tom Sosnoff joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Opening Bid to discuss the key things that make Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX) IPO a success, which investors stand to gain the most, and who will be left holding the bag.
Laffer Tengler Investments CEO & CIO Nancy Tengler joins Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Opening Bid to discuss the broader implications of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO, from its impact on investors to what the company's public debut could mean for innovation, markets, and society.

SpaceX (SPCX) CEO Elon Musk was propelled to trillionaire status — the first-ever in history — on Friday as SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO) became the latest addition to his publicly traded corporate empire. Morning Brief host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman to discuss.

SpaceX (SPCX) officially debuted on the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) on Friday, making history as the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO). Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma discusses the IPO's retail investor allocation and the reasons investors could see some volatility in the near future.
Investors will get their first chance to trade shares of Elon Musk's space company after the market opens at 9:30 a.m. ET.
SpaceX (SPCX) officially debuted on the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) on Friday, making history as the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO). Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma shares Elon Musk's initial reaction to becoming a trillionaire.

Wall Street is abuzz on Friday with Elon Musk's trillion-dollar SpaceX (SPCX) IPO set to make history with a valuation of $1.77 trillion. Bloomberg reports that several venture capital firms, including the Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, will net tens of billions of dollars from SpaceX's public launch. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman to discuss the biggest winners from SpaceX's IPO.

SpaceX (SPCX) officially debuted on the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) on Friday, making history as the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO). Watch CEO Elon Musk remotely ring the opening bell from Starbase, Texas.

SpaceX (SPCX) officially debuted on the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) on Friday, making history as the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO). Watch CEO Elon Musk remotely ring the opening bell in the video above.

The big day is here as SpaceX (SPCX) prepares to go public on the Nasdaq via its historic IPO. Elon Musk's space operator raised $75 billion after pricing 555,555,555 shares at $135 each. Morning Brief Host Julie Hyman is joined by Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Pras Subramanian and Trustless Media Founder Zack Guzman to discuss SpaceX's IPO pricing.
Gwynne Shotwell said a tie-up "might make Elon's life a little easier" but added she is focused on current operations

Words of wisdom on SpaceX: Shares of major IPO often decline in the first year.
Hedge funds sold out of the biggest U.S. tech stocks, and some even added bearish positions, according to data from a JPMorgan note late Thursday, just before SpaceX was set to go public on Friday. Shares in the "Magnificent Seven" -- a group that includes some of the biggest tech names on Wall Street, namely Nvidia, Apple, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla, and Microsoft, have all declined since last Friday. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF, which tracks these stocks closely, declined over 2.4% since June 5, with some analysts saying investors were clearing their decks in order to prepare for the debut of Elon Musk's Space X on Friday.
By Eduardo Baptista and Samuel Shen BEIJING/SHANGHAI, June 12 (Reuters) - SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO is poised to supercharge Chinese space startups racing to fund the same technologies that have
The day has come. The Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ:SPCX) IPO is ready to touch down, and it’s going to be interesting to see how the shares twist and turn in their first full day on the public markets. It’s an oversubscribed IPO, to say the least, as last-minute investors look to submit their limit orders ... 3 Reasons SpaceX Stock Might Be a Buy as Soon as it IPOs
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SpaceX is set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday after investors poured $75 billion into the world's biggest IPO ever, betting that Elon Musk's lofty space, communications and AI ambitions can justify a $1.77 trillion valuation. The landmark listing cemented Musk's status as the first trillionaire ever and propelled SpaceX into the ranks of the world's most valuable companies - even though the firm posted a loss of nearly $5 billion last year and generated only a fraction of the revenue brought in by similarly valued tech giants. The stock's performance will be a test for the so-called "Musk premium," which has been the force behind Tesla's $1 trillion-plus valuation.
The offering would value the reusable rocket company at $1.77tn.
It's important to consider your comfort with risk before diving in.
While everyone else is fighting to own a stock that's likely to be down significantly in the foreseeable future, I'll be stepping into this overlooked, discounted opportunity.
More than £75bn has been ploughed into SpaceX shares by armchair investors before the rocket company’s stock market debut on Friday.