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Spacex Valuation: SpaceX made its long-awaited stock market debut earlier this month, instantly landing among the world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
The milestone came with major benefits — global media attention, next-day options trading, and fast-track eligibility for inclusion in major benchmark equity indexes.
But analysts watching the options market say ascending further up the market-cap rankings could be a years-long climb.
SpaceX completed the biggest IPO in history, raising $75 billion before underwriters exercised their overallotment.
The company's current valuation of approximately $2.6 trillion places it in a tight battle with Amazon for the fifth-largest company in the world.
It also sits more than $1 trillion ahead of fellow Elon Musk venture Tesla.
The real challenge lies in reaching third and second place. Both Apple and Alphabet currently trade above $4.4 trillion in market capitalization.
For SpaceX to leapfrog both companies and claim the No. 2 spot behind $5 trillion Nvidia, its stock would need to rally roughly 70% — reaching approximately $340 per share — assuming Apple and Alphabet hold their current valuations.
Options market data offers a sobering timeline for that ambition.
Projections derived from the options chain on ThinkOrSwim suggest roughly even odds — a 50/50 chance — that SpaceX could hit the $340 mark sometime before July 2028.
More specifically, June 2028 call options assign approximately a 46% probability of the stock touching that level.
The math becomes trickier when looking at whether SpaceX could eventually unseat Nvidia as the world's most valuable company.
Options pricing currently reflects only about a 38% chance that happens before June 2028, rising modestly to 41% by December of that same year.
Options prices function as a real-time gauge of market sentiment.
The cost of an options contract reflects how likely traders believe a stock is to reach a given price level.
That probability is measured using a metric known as the option's delta — the higher the delta, the greater the market's implied confidence that the option will expire in the money.
In short, Wall Street isn't betting against SpaceX's long-term potential. It's simply pricing in that patience will be required.
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