SpaceX rockets to $75bn raise in biggest US listing to date

(Sharecast News) - SpaceX has raised $75bn in a record‑setting initial public offering, catapulting Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence group into the upper tier of US‑listed companies amid surging investor demand. SpaceX priced 555.6m shares at $135 ahead of trading on Friday, with the deal potentially climb to $86bn if banks exercise an additional greenshoe allocation, implying a valuation of $1.78trn. It also sets the tone for potential listings from Anthropic and OpenAI later this year.

According to people familiar with the deal, orders came in at more than three times the shares on offer, with demand spanning major asset managers, Gulf sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and retail buyers.

Individual investors alone placed more than $100bn in orders and were expected to receive between 20% and 25% of the shares sold. Bank of America led the US retail book, while Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley were among the global coordinators.

SpaceX intends to use the proceeds to fund projects ranging from AI infrastructure to new satellite constellations, while around $20bn will be used to repay a bridge loan taken out in March after Musk folded his debt‑heavy AI and social‑media ventures into SpaceX.











Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com