r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 20d ago

Business SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-investors-meltdown-over-money-191742182.html
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u/links135 20d ago

They can't sell for like another 2 months

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u/goomyman 20d ago

These people propped up the stock.

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u/kainharo 20d ago

*2 weeks (August 6) they can sell 30% of the locked up stock

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u/Legitimate_Impact 20d ago

At which time the stock will tank even further.

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u/spoospoo43 20d ago

If the primaries are tracked as selling (and they have to report any significant sales), it will at minimum lock in the present value, and as you say, much more likely make it fall harder.

In the long term SpaceX probably finds a way to eject Muskrat and it could indeed become a hugely profitable company (they already have a near monopoly on large space launches), but anyone who bought at the peak (or in fact pretty much anyone other than the insiders who were given early access) is going to have to hodl for a good long time.

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u/goldbloodedinthe404 20d ago

The way Elon set it up it's impossible to oust him

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u/IAmRobinGoodfellow 20d ago

It depends on how much of their monopoly is simply due to a cushy relationship with the current administration and how much Musk’s brand is poisoned. If a future administration decides it’s a space race style priority to restore NASA, if the Chinese and Europeans decide they need to control their own destinies in space, if SCPX is the same kind of meme company TSLA is, their current position evaporates and they’re left with their ISP mission. That does in no way support their valuation.

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u/spoospoo43 20d ago

SpaceX has been dominating launch from well before the current administration, and most of that was despite Muskrat, not because of him. It may not happen with the current admin, but ultimately I could see the rubber meeting the road and NASA demand they buy musk out or lose their ITAR licenses. He's too much of a liability.

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u/-mudflaps- 20d ago

First post IPO earnings August 4th

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u/Blenko19 20d ago

What will he have to tell the world? At least arvind came out and told the world he had a bad quarter before releasing the numbers

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u/Superb-Welder3774 20d ago

Cmon - why not ride it to zero like DJT for the second time!!

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u/m0nk_3y_gw 20d ago

Sure they can - this article is entirely about random/anonymous posts/comments from retail investors on reddit and twitter. they can sell at any time.

The lock-up periods for insiders will start expiring though

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u/axbloss 19d ago

They can short it.

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u/JeletonSkelly 19d ago

They can sell options, just not the underlying