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SpaceX Jumps in First Trades Following Record $75 Billion IPO

Bloomberg Intelligence

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**Podcast:** Bloomberg Intelligence

## Participants

- **Anthony Hughes** (Bloomberg U.S. equity capital markets)
- **George Ferguson** (Bloomberg Intelligence)
- **Ross Hamilton** (Space Network)

## Transcript

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Listen on demand wherever you get your podcasts or watch us live on YouTube. We got this thing trading. It's now trading. It priced at 135, opened at 150, here at 156. Anthony Hughes, Bloomberg U.S. equity capital markets reporter. What do you think here, Anthony? Well, I think, you know, 11% gain on the first trade is probably a number that would, for most IPOs, would be considered, you know, what you would hope to achieve.

But, you know, in the sense that this IPO, there's a lot of hype and enthusiasm and a lot of people involved in this deal. I think maybe people were hoping for a bigger number. I really like the fact that you started there because the headlines were crossing as of the first 30 minutes of trade. And the initial headline was that it was indicated to open at $175 a piece. And it's been steadily going down. We've gotten headlines about, you know, oh, now it's $174. Now it's $172. Now it's $170.

All the way down to $150. Is that a bad sign? Yeah, well, just to understand the process a bit better, I mean, Morgan Stanley is a stabilisation agent for the IPO and they also have the role of opening the IPO. But basically that process involves bringing together all these buyers and sellers for this opening print. And you want to make sure that the opening print is sort of ideally as fair a price as you can get.

And generally speaking, from what I'm told, that banks like to have about 10% of the deal size traded in that opening print. So I think you can see the number there was around 60 million shares. And, you know, the IPO was 500. You know, about 10% of the stock basically went through in the opening print. That's about standard, right? But that allows the banks to be sort of confident, I guess, that, you know, taking the buyers and the sellers together, the price that you're opening the stock at is, you know, the price that the market wants to pay.

And then, you know, looking at the success of this first day trading, one measure of it will be like where the stock closed. And you want the stock to ...

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