Tyler Crowe

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The 2026 IPO market looks like it's about to blast off.

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Welcome to Motley Fool Money.

I'm Tyler Crowe.

Today, I'm joined by longtime Fool contributors, Matt Frankel and Jon Quast.

We're going to get into the 2026 IPO market because there's been quite a bit of chatter in this past week out of who's going public, what companies we could expect to see this year already.

There's some pretty big names on there that I think a lot of people have been clamoring for, especially in the AI space.

We're going to talk about

IPOs on our radar, perhaps this year or maybe further down the road.

But first, we need to talk about Rocket Lab because they've had a couple of pivotal and I would say conflicting press releases over the past 24 hours.

Yesterday, the company announced that it had a rupture of a stage one testing tank for its new Neutron rocket that has not yet gone into commercial operation.

That press release was then followed by a second one where it was announcing that its Electron rocket, its smaller one that is currently in commercial operation, had its first successful launch in 2026 and that it was successful at putting two satellites in orbit.

Now, as of this taping, shares of Rocket Lob are down about 5%.

It seems like the Neutron rocket news is the bigger one here.

Guys, I'm hoping you can help me make sense of this a little bit.

The cynical side of me says that an unsuccessful test of its Neutron rocket was the bigger deal, and they're papering it over.