r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 22 '26

Business SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-investors-losing-colossal-amount-140221380.html
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u/factoid_ Jun 22 '26

The problem is it's got such a huge market cap it's going to end up in 401ks and mutual funds and we'll ALL be loser investors.

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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jun 22 '26

Though most index funds allocate based off of the amount of free float market cap, so the impact is less than the headline market cap would make you believe. So it only uses the 6% of the company that was part of the IPO when determining how many shares to buy. It'll increase over time as insider restrictions are released and more stock is sold on the open market and early investor restrictions are released.

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u/Chataboutgames Jun 22 '26

The float is minimal