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Becky Peterson

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WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

The company said they're going to sell 555 million shares, which means they could raise $75 billion.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

And at that share price, the implied valuation for SpaceX is $1.75 trillion.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

That makes it one of the most valuable companies in the world.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

But more interesting to prospective investors is that it doesn't have the same revenue as other companies at that level.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

The SpaceX valuation is almost 94 times its revenue for 2025.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

Because the company brought in less than $19 billion.

WSJ What’s News
AI CEOs Warn of Biological Weapons Risk

If you compare that to the S&P 500, the aggregate company in that index had a multiple closer to 3.4.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

It's losing a lot of money.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

The company lost almost $5 billion last year, and that's on $19 billion in revenue.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

Its Starlink satellite internet business is doing pretty well.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

Starlink was more than $11 billion of its revenue.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

It also has this space rocket launch business that's about $4 billion.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

And then it has the AI arm, which it acquired when it merged with XAI this year.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

And XAI is bringing in $3 billion, but it's also coming with a lot of losses.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

Inside the S1, there's this very Muskian language about having what it sees as the largest actionable total addressable market in human history.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

That means basically that SpaceX thinks it has the most opportunity ever to acquire customers, to sell its products to people.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

So it says that its TAM is $28.5 trillion.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

That's hundreds of billions of dollars from space-enabled solutions, trillion dollars in satellite internet services, and then $26.5 trillion in potential AI business.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

It's really hoping that investors see upside on their investment, even though its financials today don't quite justify its valuation.

WSJ What’s News
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans

He has these class B super voting shares, which will give him control of 85% of the vote at SpaceX.