Will Musk achieve TRILLIONAIRE status after the market close on SpaceX's first day of trading?
78% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 32 predictions cast.
Elon Musk became the first person in history to cross $1 trillion in personal net worth on June 12, 2026, the day SpaceX began public trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX had priced its initial public offering at $135 per share the prior evening and opened trading the following morning at $150, before closing at approximately $161 — a gain of roughly 19 percent on its debut session. The first-day close gave the company a market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion, making it the largest IPO in stock market history.
Because Musk owns roughly 40 percent of SpaceX shares, the first-day closing price pushed his estimated personal net worth to approximately $1.1 trillion. Before the IPO, his fortune had been valued at about $813 billion, concentrated primarily in stakes in Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), and SpaceX itself. SpaceX had remained a private company since its 2002 founding, meaning Musk's SpaceX holdings had been largely illiquid even as the company became one of the most valuable private enterprises in the world.
The IPO unlocked that value at scale. The community predicted the trillionaire milestone correctly, with 78 percent voting yes.