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NEW YORK \u2014 SpaceX jumped 11% as the rocket maker\u2019s stock opened for trading. That price gives the company a market value of $1.96 trillion and is enough to make CEO Elon Musk the first-ever trillionaire. Institutional and retail investors jumped at the opportunity to buy 555.6 million shares of SpaceX at the offering price of $135 apiece, making it the biggest IPO in history with proceeds of $75 billion. Musk says the company is going public because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing a colony of people on Mars.<\/p>\n

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THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Elon Musk may never colonize Mars as promised, but enough investors consider the SpaceX founder to be a sort of miracle man that they’ll help him reach another fantastic goal Friday when he takes the rocket company public.<\/p>\n

The world’s richest man is set to become its first trillionaire.<\/p>\n

Musk on Friday marked the opening of trading on Nasdaq, where the company’s shares will be listed, by joining a ceremonial bell ringing from Starbase, the South Texas home of SpaceX.<\/p>\n

He reiterated his lofty goals \u201cto make life multi-planetary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just a few astronauts, I mean literally you,\u201d Musk said. \u201cWhoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Known for his brilliant technology breakthroughs, as well as wild claims and missed deadlines, Musk is expected to break that trillion dollar mark in the biggest initial public offering ever as investors place bets on a company with losses as big as its ambitions. Ahead of the first trade in SpaceX, Forbes puts Musk’s net worth at $982.6 billion.<\/p>\n

In addition to establishing a one-million person Martian colony, the company has promised to save humanity by establishing other outposts in space, launch data centers the size of football fields into orbit and outdo rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the race to make money from artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

To reach its goals, SpaceX needs billions more than it currently takes in from its rocket and satellite business. Between the start of 2025 and March 31, 2026, the company lost $8.7 billion.<\/p>\n

Big institutional buyers and smaller-pocketed investors alike have indicated they are willing to take a chance, paying a high enough price for the 555.6 millions on offer to raise $75 billion. That easily tops the current title holder, Saudi Aramco, the oil giant that raised $26 billion in its 2019 initial offering.<\/p>\n

Trading in the stock — symbol, SPCX — is expected later Friday.<\/p>\n

Wall Street bankers that helped take SpaceX public are enthusiastic about the company \u2014 and the big fees they will earn \u2014 but not everyone thinks the stock price is justified.<\/p>\n

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Analysts at research firm Morningstar, which doesn’t earn any investment banking fees, wrote that the IPO is \u201csignificantly overvalued” because of SpaceX’s unproven technology and massive capital needs.<\/p>\n

They estimate the company is only worth $780 billion \u2014 less than half its IPO value.<\/p>\n

Still, Musk has pulled off the seemingly impossible before.<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be trillionaire \u2014 on paper at least \u2014 made his fortune by creating two companies, Zip2 and PayPal, that netted him about $200 million at sale. He used that money to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla, and defied the odds by creating a space company that figured out how to reuse rockets and a car company that made electric vehicles cool.<\/p>\n

Musk has realized vast sums of wealth for himself, much of it in stock he has yet to cash in or grants for shares he\u2019ll only receive if Tesla or SpaceX hit ambitious performance targets. His recent pay package from Tesla drew criticism from the Vatican. At Tesla, he\u2019s worried shareholders by fighting with regulators or dividing his attention between multiple companies and last year by taking a role in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

But a rising stock price has cured all ills: Since it went public in 2010, Tesla has returned 20,000% for shareholders, or more than $1.2 trillion in investor wealth. That has helped lift Musk\u2019s pre-SpaceX IPO worth to $795 billion, according to Forbes magazine.<\/p>\n

SpaceX is the first of three \u201cmegacap\u201d companies expected to go public this year, with Anthropic and OpenAI to follow. Nasdaq even revised its rules to allow SpaceX to gain entry into funds tied to its indexes in 15 days, which means investors will end up buying the rocket maker’s shares much earlier.<\/p>\n

Not all investors are thrilled about SpaceX potentially showing up in their holdings of index funds. Officials from pension funds for firefighters, teachers and other workers in California and New York sent a letter to SpaceX last month decrying some of the provisions in its IPO, including the \u201csuper voting shares,\u201d mandatory arbitration of shareholder claims instead of the possibility of lawsuits and how much power Musk will hold over the company.<\/p>\n

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