SpaceX IPO Surge Crowns Musk as World’s First Trillionaire
From WSJ Minute Briefing by The Wall Street Journal
June 12, 2026 · 2 min
About this episode
The episode discusses SpaceX's rise to become America's sixth-most-valuable public company and its implications for Elon Musk's wealth.
Elon Musk’s rocket maker is now America's sixth-most-valuable public company, with a market cap of $2.1 trillion. Plus: Other high-flying tech stocks, including Marvell and Micron Technology, drop as investors race to buy SpaceX. Alexis Green hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Alexis Green
Topics covered
- SpaceX IPO
- Elon Musk
- tech stocks
- market cap
- investors
- business news
Keywords
- SpaceX
- IPO
- Elon Musk
- trillionaire
- market cap
- tech stocks
- investors
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Organizations: SpaceX, Marvell, Micron Technology, The Wall Street Journal
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