History Offers a $974 Billion Warning Ahead of the Game-Changing SpaceX IPO

Published June 11, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Tomorrow promises to be a historic day for Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC), and Nasdaq-100 have been wildly vacillating ahead of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) on June 12.

Elon Musk's space and artificial intelligence conglomerate is selling roughly 555.6 million shares at $135 each, raising a record-shattering $75 billion and valuing the company at approximately $1.77 trillion. SpaceX should slot in as the eighth-largest publicly traded company, ahead of Meta Platforms and Musk's other trillion-dollar company, Tesla.

Details

While buzz ahead of this debut is off the charts, history offers an unmistakable warning that could cost retail investors dearly if ignored.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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