Mark Your Calendar -- the SpaceX IPO Should Occur by This Date

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Ryan Vanzo, The Motley Fool

Sun, April 26, 2026 astatine 10:08 AM CDT 3 min read

It's official: SpaceX has filed confidential paperwork with regulators to signifier an archetypal nationalist offering (IPO) aboriginal this year. Reports suggest the institution volition beryllium valued astatine arsenic overmuch arsenic $1.75 trillion. It's expected to rise betwixt $50 cardinal and $75 cardinal successful caller capital.

Surprisingly, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk -- who is besides the CEO of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) -- reportedly wants to marque definite plentifulness of mundane retail investors are capable to put successful the SpaceX IPO. Most large companies allocate conscionable 5% to 10% of IPO shares to smaller retail investors. But SpaceX's CFO expects to allocate up to 30% of the stock merchantability to retail investors.

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"Retail is going to beryllium a captious portion of this and a bigger portion than immoderate IPO successful history," is what SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen said successful an interal metting successful aboriginal April, according to Reuters. "[T]hose are folks that person been incredibly supportive of america and of Elon for a agelong time," helium added, "and we privation to marque sure that we admit that."

When volition the SpaceX IPO instrumentality place? There are a fewer cardinal dates to beryllium alert of.

On April 6, SpaceX's absorption squad met with concern bankers to uncover a fewer details from its expected IPO. That day, we learned that the company's roadshow -- a bid of events wherever SpaceX's absorption squad and concern bankers volition transportation the institution to imaginable investors -- volition statesman connected June 8. According to Reuters, astir "125 fiscal analysts from the 21 banks connected the deal are scheduled to conscionable with the institution the time before." Those concern banks, apparently, person codenamed the IPO "Project Apex."

A fewer days later, connected June 11, SpaceX is readying to invitation astir 1,500 retail investors to a "major capitalist event." Could that beryllium the nonstop day of the IPO? It's precise possible, but we won't cognize for definite until an authoritative IPO prospectus is published. The SpaceX IPO prospectus isn't expected to go nationalist until precocious May.

For now, we tin glean immoderate imaginable dates from betting markets. According to information from betting marketplace Kalshi, astir 86% of bettors judge the IPO volition instrumentality spot earlier Aug. 1. Around 83% judge the IPO volition hap earlier July 1. But conscionable 13% judge it volition hap earlier June 1.

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