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Howard Smith, The Motley Fool
Wed, June 10, 2026 astatine 11:37 AM CDT 4 min read
The archetypal nationalist offering (IPO) of Elon Musk's SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) whitethorn beryllium the astir wide followed successful history. To immoderate degree, it makes sense, fixed its enactment successful outer launches, government-led abstraction initiatives, Starlink's outer net constellation, and xAI's compute power.
The hype implicit the SpaceX IPO is lone matched by the expected valuation. At an estimated $1.8 trillion marketplace cap, the company, astatine the clip of its IPO, would beryllium worthy 20% much than Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), 14 years aft that institution went nationalist arsenic Facebook. While that tremendous valuation volition apt marque thousands of SpaceX employees who ain banal options millionaires, retail investors request to determine whether to effort to get successful connected the IPO oregon bargain shares connected the unfastened market.
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The Facebook IPO and its consequent beingness arsenic a nationalist institution are a bully lawsuit survey for investors considering buying SpaceX banal astatine the IPO terms oregon later.
A absorption connected tiny investors
The SpaceX IPO isn't conscionable unsocial due to the fact that of its grounds size. SpaceX laminitis and CEO Elon Musk reportedly wants up to 30% of the 555.5 cardinal shares offered successful the IPO allocated to retail investors. Also, according to Bloomberg, implicit 1,000 existent and erstwhile SpaceX employees person travel unneurotic to negociate improved pricing and entree to precocious tax-saving fiscal products successful anticipation of the IPO, which is expected to alteration galore of them into multimillionaires.
Those reports apt stoke demand, prompting galore retail investors to interest astir missing retired connected SpaceX shares. But adjacent if 1 sees tons of imaginable for the company, the question is whether retail investors should privation to get successful astatine the commencement astatine the estimated $135 stock price.
A look astatine the progression of the erstwhile Facebook banal aft its IPO provides a telling story.
Remembering Facebook
Facebook went nationalist astatine $38 a share, giving it an archetypal valuation of astir $104 billion. The company's gross was $5.1 cardinal successful 2012, the twelvemonth it went public. That was a 37% summation implicit 2011. SpaceX generated $18.7 cardinal successful gross past year, up astir 33% from 2024.
So the companies were increasing income astatine astir the aforesaid complaint astatine the clip of their respective IPOs. Yet Facebook launched astatine a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of astir 20, portion SpaceX is looking to statesman trading with a P/S of astir 95.
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