{"id":6911,"date":"2026-06-12T07:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:27:39","slug":"spacexs-ipo-could-be-largest-in-history-heres-how-it-compares-to-previous-record-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=6911","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s IPO could be largest in history. Here&#8217;s how it compares to previous record-holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2185632992_5d412b-e1781215622801.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>SpaceX is shooting for the stars: a record-breaking $135 per share initial public offering that would value the company at $1.77 trillion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>This is about seven-and-a-half times Alibaba\u2019s inflation-adjusted valuation in 2014, which held the record before, and 15 times Facebook\u2019s IPO, blowing modern service giants Uber and Airbnb out of the water entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX already made history by raising $75 billion on Thursday, and pulling off its anticipated IPO will make thousands of SpaceX employees millionaires and could push up Elon Musk\u2019s net worth high enough to make him a trillionaire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"w-full\" height=\"588\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/o2VjJ\/5\/\" title=\"How SpaceX compares to top 20 IPOs staged in the United States\" width=\"0\" aria-label=\"Dot Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-o2VjJ\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" data-external=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how $1.77 trillion squares with the top 20 biggest IPOs staged in the United States:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alibaba Group Holding Ltd \u2014 $236.53 billion<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Inc \u2014 $118.48 billion<\/li>\n<li>Uber Technologies Inc \u2014 $98.75 billion<\/li>\n<li>AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc \u2014 $133.33 billion<\/li>\n<li>Rivian Automotive Inc \u2014 $80.18 billion<\/li>\n<li>Didi Global Inc \u2014 $75.19 billion<\/li>\n<li>United Parcel Service Inc \u2014 $119.79 billion<\/li>\n<li>Coupang Inc \u2014 $76.11 billion<\/li>\n<li>Ente Nazionale per l\u2019Energia Elettrica (ENEL) \u2014 $109.28 billion<\/li>\n<li>Kraft Foods Inc \u2014 $101.27 billion<\/li>\n<li>Deutsche Telekom AG \u2014 $109.47 billion<\/li>\n<li>Banco Santander Brasil SA \u2014 $78.94 billion<\/li>\n<li>General Motors Co \u2014 $75.82 billion<\/li>\n<li>Visa Inc \u2014 $69.56 billion<\/li>\n<li>Airbnb Inc \u2014 $52.71 billion<\/li>\n<li>Gazprom \u2014 $79.85 billion<\/li>\n<li>Rocket Companies Inc \u2014 $46.39 billion<\/li>\n<li>Telefonica Moviles \u2014 $69.03 billion<\/li>\n<li>Blackstone \u2014 $54.93 billion<\/li>\n<li>Snowflake Inc \u2014 $43.73 billion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col layout-gap-md\">\n<div class=\"not-prose empty:contents [:has(*[data-empty=true])]:hidden clear-both\">\n<div class=\"typography-level-4 mt-4 font-graphik-compact [&amp;_*_a]:hover:underline\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><span class=\"description-parser contents\" data-cy=\"description\"><strong>Subscribe to\u00a0Fortune Gulf Brief<\/strong>. Every Tuesday, this new newsletter delivers clear-eyed, authoritative intelligence on the deals, decisions, policies, and power shifts shaping one of the world\u2019s most consequential regions, written for the people who need to act on it. Sign up here.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>#SpaceXs #IPO #largest #history #Heres #compares #previous #recordholders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is shooting for the stars: a record-breaking $135 per share initial public offering that would value the company at $1.77 trillion.\u00a0 This is about seven-and-a-half times Alibaba\u2019s inflation-adjusted valuation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9295,305,743,540,2142,2040,2400,1208,9296,9297,1843,5557],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-alibaba-group-inc","tag-compares","tag-elon-musk","tag-heres","tag-history","tag-ipo","tag-ipos","tag-largest","tag-previous","tag-recordholders","tag-spacex","tag-spacexs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}