Estee Lauder and Puig were in talks since March 2026.
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SpaceX will be the talk of the town for weeks to come, with its IPO reflecting the largest in history.
Estee Lauder shares jumped more than 11% after hours on news that talks for it to acquire the Spanish beauty group Puig have been terminated. Lauder, whose brands include Clinique, M.A.C and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, said Thursday that it instead remains focused on its turnaround efforts.
<p>Inflows have tripled the fund's AUM in a week, even as they dilute the very SpaceX exposure investors came for.</p>
SpaceX will reportedly allocate 30% of shares to retail investors, betting on the CEO’s loyal base of investors—and putting Tesla under more scrutiny.
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The decision ends months of speculation that the two would merge and create one of the world’s largest beauty companies.
Rocket Lab stock could benefit from space industry-related attention generated by the anticipated monster IPO of SpaceX.
Both companies emphasize confidence in their portfolios and commit to driving long-term growth independently.
In recent weeks, Goldman Sachs has been selected as lead underwriter for SpaceX’s planned IPO, reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter 2026 investment banking results, and expanded in alternative financing by acquiring trade-credit specialist FGI Worldwide. This combination of a high-profile IPO mandate and broader investment banking and alternatives activity reinforces Goldman’s role at the center of large, complex capital markets transactions. We’ll now examine how winning the SpaceX...

Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian breaks down SpaceX's (SPAX.PVT) finances ahead of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO).
Getting a piece of AI powerhouses SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic isn’t easy pre-IPO. It isn‘t impossible, though. Here’s how you do it.
SpaceX’s IPO filing is reshaping how investors value launch, satellite, and AI infrastructure companies including Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, CoreWeave, Firefly Aerospace, and EchoStar.
In early May 2026, IonQ reported its biggest quarter to date with record first-quarter revenue, a sharply higher backlog of long-term contracts, an increased 2026 revenue outlook to US$260–US$270 million, and announced plans to acquire US-based foundry SkyWater Technology alongside opening a new US$100 million R&D facility in Boulder, Colorado. These moves mark IonQ’s shift from a pure hardware pioneer to a vertically integrated quantum platform company with in-house manufacturing, expanding...
The details that Elon Musk’s SpaceX outlined about its initial public offering this week showcase the rocket company’s ties across Wall Street, and its own ambitions in the financial sector. SpaceX owns xAI, Musk’s artificial-intelligence start-up, which in turn owns X, formerly known as Twitter. It may expand into other financial offerings, SpaceX wrote in the filing.
Space Exploration Technologies, widely known as SpaceX, has filed for an initial public offering in
The global space economy is already worth more than $600 billion. While SpaceX may win the headlines, the better returns could come from the companies building the ecosystem around it, like Rocket Lab Corp. (RKLB), writes Nicholas Vardy, editor of Microcap Moonshots.
Scott Melker discusses SpaceX’s (SPAX.PVT) confirmed June 12 Nasdaq (^IXIC) IPO debut and the company’s disclosure of a substantial bitcoin holding in its filing. “The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker” airs on Yahoo Finance every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto.Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.
SpaceX will be the largest IPO in history. Stock Strategist Andrew Rocco explains what you need to know.
AVB's all-stock merger with EQR targets $125M net synergies, dual A3/A- ratings and a $2.81 dividend, with closing expected in H2 2026.
The CEO of Union Pacific said he is confident the revised UP-Norfolk Southern merger application will be accepted by the Surface Transportation Board. The post UP CEO confident rail merger application checks all the STB’s boxes appeared first on FreightWaves.
Somewhere between a thought experiment and a margin call, SpaceX has a price. On Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives venue, a synthetic contract called SPCX-USD recently changed hands around $203. Plug that price into the company’s share count and the implied valuation lands at roughly $2.4 trillion. At that level, a SpaceX initial public offering would ... SpaceX Is Quietly Trading at a Price That Would Make It 23x Bigger Than Facebook’s IPO
Here is the part of the SpaceX IPO story most coverage glossed over: Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) wrote a $2 billion check to xAI in January 2026, and weeks later that check effectively cleared into SpaceX. The $2 billion that quietly changed addresses According to the SpaceX S-1, in January 2026, Tesla entered into an agreement with ... Tesla’s $2 Billion xAI Bet Just Got Folded Into SpaceX: The Hidden Story Behind the IPO
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Goldman and Morgan Stanley are battling for top billing as SpaceX targets a more than $2 trillion valuation.
Ticker SPCX will trade on Nasdaq with Musk retaining 85.1% of voting power
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will serve as the two lead investment banks on the SpaceX IPO, which includes 23 investment banks in total.

SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) has officially filed for its initial public offering (IPO). Elon Musk's company is reportedly expected to raise $80 billion for a $2 trillion valuation. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley and Morning Brief host Julie Hyman take a deeper dive into the company's numbers and prospects in the video above.