Most mega-cap stocks trade only a small fraction of their available shares each day.
SpaceX is operating on a different scale.
On its IPO day, trading volume reached the equivalent of 82% of its free float, the shares available for public trading rather than held by insiders or other restricted investors.
Activity has cooled since launch week, but not by much.
Daily turnover has remained between 10% and 30% of free float, far above the roughly 0.3 – 1% typically seen across established mega-caps such as Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Amazon.
Even the denominator has expanded.
SpaceX’s greenshoe, an IPO mechanism that allows the banks managing the listing to sell additional shares when demand is strong, was fully exercised, increasing the public float to approximately 638.9M shares.
Yet trading activity remains unusually elevated.
Five weeks after its debut, SpaceX is behaving less like an established mega-cap and more like a market event investors are still actively pricing.
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