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SpaceX Files for $75B IPO, Targeting Record Raise

Is this a delusional money furnace for retail investors or a massively undervalued AI and space giant?

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SpaceX Files for $75B IPO, Targeting Record Raise

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Above: SpaceX signage outside the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. facility in California on June 3. Image credit: Michael Yanow/NurPhoto/Getty Images

The Spin

Left narrative

SpaceX's IPO filing is a financial disaster dressed up as a credible pitch, with losses ballooning 700% and revenue growth decelerating fast. Pricing the stock at 107 times sales — nearly double Palantir's multiple — while losing more money than it makes is straight-up delusional. The xAI acquisition is a $250 billion distraction that turns a rocket company into a money furnace, and retail investors are being set up as exit liquidity.

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Right narrative

Morningstar and skeptics are wildly undervaluing SpaceX by ignoring xAI's $15 billion annual GPU rental revenue and the Colossus data center buildout that already represents 20% of all global AI data centers built in the last two years. Starship reuse is slashing launch costs toward $100-200 per kilogram, and Terafab's 3,100-acre campus signals a manufacturing scale no competitor can touch. The upside here isn't priced in — it's barely even being modeled.

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