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Aidan Donnelly

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475 total appearances

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Does it mean it could go up?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

It could go up.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

And that's where we're talking now about the market dynamics that are ultimately behind this in terms of, you know, you have a situation where I think nearly every Wall Street bank bar one, which is interesting, is on the ticket here.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Right.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So they have a collective interest to make sure it's successful.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Musk obviously has a collective interest to make it and anybody else who is shareholders is.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

are going to have a collective interest to make it.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

Yeah, but the problem then comes when you look at it in terms of the dynamics of it.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

As I said, the free float's going to be very low, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So when it goes into any... About 60% of the US market is controlled by exchange-traded funds or passive investors, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

They can't buy it on the day or pre the IPO.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

They have to wait till it's in the index to buy it.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So there's three major providers of indexes.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

There's MSCI, there's S&P and there's the NASDAQ.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

MSCI operate on a free flow basis.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So in, I think, five or 10 days or something like that, it's going to go into the MSCI world, right?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

But because the free flow is only about four odd percent, it's going to be tiny in that index.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

So they're not going to be big index buyers.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

That will limit the index from them.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
‘No profit and crap governance’ – is Elon Musk’s SpaceX actually worth $1.75 trillion?

If the next one up, they have a kind of a funny, quirky way of doing it.