Elon Musk's $1.8 Trillion SpaceX IPO Is Too Big to Succeed
The SpaceX initial public offering is one of a kind; the investment opportunity is not. With a roughly $1.8 trillion valuation, the stock may be too big to reach escape velocity.SpaceX's IPO is arguably the biggest capital-markets event ever, and unique. There is the sheer size -- a record $75 billion raise is targeted, excluding overallotment options for bankers to buy an additional 83.3 million shares; the offering price isn't a range, but a specific price of $135; and the ultimate value of the company could hit $1.8 trillion. SpaceX's singularity will continue when it starts trading, with the company added to the Nasdaq 100 just 15 trading days after the offering, requiring passive buying of 10% to 15% of the shares outstanding, and a massive amount of retail participation in the IPO.Not everything is pretty. Consider SpaceX's artificial-intelligence business, grafted onto the company when it purchased xAI for $250 billion in February. It generated an operating loss of $6.4 billion