I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.SpaceX's IPO allocated at least one share to eligible retail customers on major US platforms like Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, and SoFi. Approximately 20% of the offering went to global retail investors amid demand exceeding $100 billion. Shares rose 43% in two days, valuing SpaceX at $2.5 trillion.
[NEW YORK] Customers at some of the largest retail brokerage firms in the US each received at least a single share in SpaceX’s US$86.2 billion IPO, underscoring how the offering was designed to give individual investors a sizable role.
All eligible customers putting in requests for shares with platforms run by Robinhood Markets, Charles Schwab, Fidelity Investments and SoFi Technologies were allocated some stock, according to the firms’ respective representatives.
SpaceX ended up allocating about 20 per cent of its initial public offering to retail investors globally, Bloomberg News reported. Demand for the shares ran to more than US$100 billion, people familiar with the matter have said, leaving many who sought larger allocations with less than they hoped. The shares closed their second day of trading on Monday (Jun 15) up 43 per cent from their US$135 price in the IPO, giving SpaceX a market value of US$2.5 trillion.
Robinhood disclosed on its app on Monday that 855,424 of its customers requested shares at the IPO price via its IPO Access platform and it filled the same number of requests. The firm did not disclose to what extent its customers’ allocations fell short of their requested amounts.
All Robinhood users that applied for SpaceX shares received at least one share, a spokesperson for the firm said. The company had 27.7 million funded accounts as of the end of May.
In South Korea, Mirae Asset Securities did not receive an allocation for its clients despite being an underwriter of the IPO. By contrast, Japanese investors bought 16.3 million shares in aggregate for US$2.2 billion.
In the UK, retail buyers received about US$364 million worth of shares after submitting orders worth nearly US$1 billion, Bloomberg News reported. Elsewhere in Europe, just under US$2.5 billion of demand translated to around US$600 million in retail orders.
Schwab, SoFi, Robinhood and Fidelity were listed in the IPO prospectus of Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX’s formal name, as potentially offering shares to retail investors.
E*TRADE by Morgan Stanley, part of the Wall Street firm whose investment banking arm was a top underwriter of the IPO, was also listed as a retail broker. A Morgan Stanley representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. BLOOMBERG