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Manali Pradhan, CFA, The Motley Fool
Tue, July 7, 2026 astatine 3:20 AM CDT 6 min read
Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), different known arsenic SpaceX, is joining the Nasdaq-100 scale today. This means that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the index, including the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), volition soon ain the banal indirectly.
J.P. Morgan, portion of JPMorgan Chase, expects this scale inclusion to trigger astir $4.3 cardinal successful passive buying from index-tracking funds. Although this volition service arsenic a wide near-term request catalyst for SpaceX, Invesco QQQ Trust investors are besides getting vulnerability to a founder-controlled institution with a constricted fig of publically traded shares (float) and an unprofitable business.
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Why SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 introduction matters for QQQ investors
Invesco QQQ Trust tracks the Nasdaq-100, which includes the 100 largest non-financial companies listed connected Nasdaq.
SpaceX's speedy introduction became imaginable due to the fact that the Nasdaq-100 changed its inclusion rules successful 2026. Starting May 1, ample recently nationalist companies similar SpaceX tin beryllium added aft conscionable 15 trading days if they fertile among the apical 40 eligible Nasdaq-listed companies. However, if lone a constricted fig of shares are publically traded, Nasdaq tin bounds however overmuch value the banal gets successful the index. The alteration reflects today's market, wherever immoderate precise ample companies enactment backstage for longer and database with lone a constricted fig of shares disposable for nationalist investors.
SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 inclusion volition springiness Invesco QQQ Trust investors vulnerability to the space, outer broadband, and artificial quality (AI) infrastructure institution earlier S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) scale money investors get it automatically. Reuters reported that SpaceX would request astatine slightest 12 months of nationalist trading history, mostly accepted accounting principles (GAAP) profitability, and a nationalist interval of astatine slightest 10% earlier it tin beryllium considered for inclusion successful the S&P 500. However, according to Reuters' estimates, SpaceX's nationalist interval is lone 3% to 4%. The institution besides posted a $4.94 cardinal nett nonaccomplishment successful 2025.
Since lone a tiny information of SpaceX shares is disposable for nationalist trading, buying by funds that way the Nasdaq-100 tin person a bigger effect connected the banal price. But erstwhile that buying is complete, the aforesaid constricted proviso of tradable shares tin besides marque the banal determination much sharply if investors commencement selling. So, Invesco QQQ Trust investors should inquire whether SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 inclusion has already lifted the banal capable to bounds its near-term gains.
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