{"id":603539,"date":"2026-05-18T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=603539"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:55:00","slug":"space-stocks-take-off-on-musks-spacex-ipo-comments-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=603539","title":{"rendered":"Space Stocks Take-Off On Musk&#8217;s SpaceX IPO Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Space Stocks Take-Off On Musk&#8217;s SpaceX IPO Comments  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>AST SpaceMobile, EchoStar, and Rocket Lab moved higher in premarket trading in New York after Elon Musk, speaking by video at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit on Monday, said a SpaceX IPO is coming &#8220;pretty soon,&#8221; adding to investor hype around the publicly traded space industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>We&#8217;ve got to get the SpaceX IPO stuff going here pretty soon<\/strong>,&#8221; Musk told the summit, which was taking place in Tel Aviv, via video call.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Elon: &#8220;I would be there in person, but we gotta get this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpaceX<\/a> IPO going pretty soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40\ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6uwiDKS9of\">https:\/\/t.co\/6uwiDKS9of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGVMTm7qmg\">pic.twitter.com\/yGVMTm7qmg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SawyerMerritt\/status\/2056276331206185288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shares of EchoStar were up about 3.5% in premarket trading. AST SpaceMobile and Rocket Lab also moved higher by about 2.5% after Musk&#8217;s comments earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HCHb8d8bYAAykux_0.jpg?itok=U2pmg-8b\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HCHb8d8bYAAykux_0.jpg?itok=U2pmg-8b\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"97f14be8-90ea-48a8-be65-d5d3d299d1d3\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/HCHb8d8bYAAykux_0.jpg?itok=U2pmg-8b\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Reuters reported that SpaceX has selected Nasdaq for its long-awaited IPO and is targeting a June 11 pricing date, followed by a June 12 debut under the ticker &#8220;SPCX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Polymarket bet on SpaceX&#8217;s symbol &#8220;SPCX&#8221; has hit 93%.<\/p>\n<figure aria-label=\"Polymarket prediction market: Will SpaceX's public ticker be another ticker?\" class=\"polymarket-embed\"><figcaption><strong>Will SpaceX&#8217;s public ticker be another ticker?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes 93% \u00b7 No 7%<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/what-will-spacexs-public-ticker-be\">View full market &amp; trade on Polymarket<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April, SpaceX confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC and is planning to disclose its prospectus as soon as next week, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/14\/spacex-ipo-prospectus-could-land-as-soon-as-next-week-sources-say.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s IPO could raise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/it-begins-spacex-files-confidentially-ipo-setting-record-breaking-offering\">upwards of $75 billion<\/a> for the rocket company and dwarf Saudi Aramco&#8217;s $29 billion debut in 2019. The money raised would be used to fund an &#8220;insane flight rate&#8221; for the Starship rocket and to push ahead with deploying orbital data centers in low Earth orbit. <strong>The company&#8217;s valuation stands at around $1.75 trillion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Other IPOs to watch in the second half include chatbot startups, such as OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 05\/18\/2026 &#8211; 08:55<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/HCHb8d8bYAAykux_0.jpg?itok=U2pmg-8b\" title=\"Space Stocks Take-Off On Musk's SpaceX IPO Comments\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Stocks Take-Off On Musk&#8217;s SpaceX IPO Comments AST SpaceMobile, EchoStar, and Rocket Lab moved higher in premarket trading in New York after Elon Musk, speaking by video at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit on Monday, said a SpaceX IPO is coming &#8220;pretty soon,&#8221; adding to investor hype around the publicly traded space industry.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=603539\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Stocks Take-Off On Musk&#8217;s SpaceX IPO Comments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/603509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}