SpaceX Shares Rise in Early Trading After IPO, Market Value Reported Near $3 Trillion

SpaceX shares traded near $170 on Monday, June 15, 2026, up about 6 percent from Friday’s close and approximately 29 percent above the $135 IPO price. The company’s market capitalization reached $3 trillion, placing it as the sixth-largest publicly traded company by market value. 65 on Monday after opening higher in premarket trading.

00. 52. Retail investors bought 8 million SpaceX shares on Friday, the largest single-day net retail purchase for any IPO on record.

SpaceX accounted for about 4 percent of all single-stock retail turnover that day and raised $75 billion on its first day of trading. Market capitalization had already exceeded $2 trillion after the first trading day. Trading activity extended into crypto-linked products, where futures volume rose 140 percent to about $930 million and open interest exceeded $540 million.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives stated on Sunday that the SpaceX IPO was a “Goldilocks outcome” for the tech sector. He wrote that the reception of the pricing was solid and that the rest of the tech sector held up well, adding that the positive debut is a good sign for OpenAI and Anthropic as both companies likely head down the IPO path before year-end.

Ives characterized the listing as an “important watershed moment” driving capital into the AI flywheel.

He stated that the AI spending cycle is only in the “3rd inning” and that the broader tech and chip trades have “a lot of room to go higher” into the second half of 2026.