SpaceX Is Kicking Off IPO Mania -- but It's Also Reviving Stock-Split Euphoria

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Sean Williams, The Motley Fool

Tue, May 19, 2026 astatine 6:26 AM CDT 4 min read

Arguably, the astir anticipated initial nationalist offering (IPO) successful Wall Street past is astir here. Following a teaser from chipmaker Cerebras, whose shares efficaciously doubled from their IPO database terms erstwhile trading commenced connected May 14, Elon Musk's SpaceX has accelerated its timeline to spell nationalist to June 12.

The conglomerate down the Falcon 9 rocket, Starlink, artificial quality (AI) start-up xAI, and societal media level X hopes to rise up to $75 cardinal from its IPO and bid a $1.75 trillion valuation. This would marque SpaceX the eighth-largest nationalist institution connected U.S. exchanges, instantly up of Musk's different trillion-dollar company, Tesla.

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A U.S. dollar coin divided successful fractional that's acceptable atop a insubstantial banal certificate for shares of a nationalist company.

But SpaceX isn't conscionable inspiring IPO mania -- AI-driven ample connection exemplary developers Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to travel successful its footsteps aboriginal this year. It's besides reviving the stock-split euphoria that sent respective high-profile stocks screaming higher implicit the past half-decade.

SpaceX is enacting a pre-IPO guardant banal divided

Among the galore updates to SpaceX's imminent IPO that deed the newswires precocious past week was a study that this AI and abstraction system titan would, with shareholder approval, behaviour a 5-for-1 guardant banal split.

A banal divided is an lawsuit that allows a nationalist (or private) institution to cosmetically set its stock terms and outstanding stock count. These changes are "cosmetic" successful the consciousness that they don't impact its marketplace headdress oregon underlying operating performance.

Forward banal splits are astir ever astir retail capitalist accessibility. Many brokerages contiguous let mundane investors to acquisition fractional shares. But if your broker isn't 1 of them, a institution with a precocious stock terms mightiness marque it hard for retail investors to enactment successful its maturation story.

Completing a pre-IPO 5-for-1 banal divided volition summation SpaceX's outstanding stock number by 400% portion concurrently reducing its stock terms by 80%. On a nominal basis, its shares volition beryllium much affordable for retail investors, who are expected to play a large relation successful the IPO process.

This is conscionable the benignant of banal divided that whitethorn spur different manufacture leaders to travel suit.

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