That’s a weird way of saying a stock started at $135 and is now at $181 a week later, but some people bought it when it was higher than that for a few days.
I mean seriously? I want spacx to fail super hard and musk to get completely dumped on, but this amount of volatility is completely typical when well known companies start an IPO. It sucks it’s like 35% higher than the initial offering price.
Good I hopw they end up penniless and SpaceX gets abolished.
After briefly pushing SpaceX’s market value close to $3 trillion, investors have begun reassessing whether the stock’s rapid advance can be justified by fundamentals.
Nothing in the stock market has been about fundamentals for a very long time. Especially regarding Musk companies.
I believe Uber was the company to break the fundamentals game
lol … psychopaths and sociopaths with a never ending thirst for profit are surprised that infinite growth no matter how much you want to believe in it can not sustain itself are surprised when their money can’t magically grow any more.
Saying the average buyer is almost underwater is another way of saying that the average buyer has made a profit.
The media does this constantly with Elon.
That was the entire point of the IPO wasn’t it? Funnel money to Elon and his friends and leave the rest of the (less connected) idiot investors holding the bag? Anyone who didn’t own before it could sell wasn’t one of the in-crowd that was supposed to be handed money. If you did buy, you weren’t buying based on any business fundamentals and should have known to sell as soon as any gain could be realized which would have been hours or even minutes after buying.
Someone more knowledgeable than me please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think any of the original private investors have been capable of selling anything and I don’t think they will be able to for another 30 or 60 days.
And IMO, I think Elon is thoroughly convinced that he will have another Tesla stock situation on his hand, where it generally keeps going up unreasonably for many many years.
Oh look, the completely expected and basically dependable event that happens after EVERY IPO, happened. Anyone jumping on an initial IPO is a fucking idiot. They always go under.
They might eventually still make it back to be profitable if they wait months or even years… or they could have waited a few weeks and bought the inevitable dip and never been underwater in the first place, making more profit.
The only IPO I ever jumped on was ARM Holdings, and that actually ended up doubling within a couple weeks. Made a tidy profit on it, then dumped it when it plateaued.
Bet you wish you held it now though. Up about 7x since it first opened.
Man, I was having a good day, too…
Notably ARM was not mainstream when it IPOd either, meaning it was a safe® bet at the time.
Most IPOs have become sensationalized to drive up interest, which is terrible for everyone except a select few.
I’m not sure what you mean. It already had complete dominance of the smartphone market, which was, at the time, still growing.
Yes, sometimes gambling pays out.
$185 is still way above the already ridiculous IPO price of $135. If this market made any sense, it wouldn’t have gotten this high in the first place, but since we’re here, it should really continue dropping. However, knowing how this market is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a momentary dip before going back up for some dumb made-up reason.
Boo hoo my shares in a company owned by a fascist and with absolutely awful revenue in comparison to it’s valuation are losing value just as expected
cry me a river
It’s up 35% from its starting IPO pricing…
it opened at 171 that’s not 35%
All of this.
So the pump dumped?
Wow. Such surprise. /s
So they’re…. in profit.
Gotta try find a way to make space X sound bad, right?
I mean, is it really an IPO if it isn’t insanely overpriced when initially offered?
Yeah, I would say it’s quite usual to see a big dip right from the start. It’s just hamsters for whom buying Space X is their first trade don’t know about that
Initially no, they’re designed to be under so that it surges after ipo, that makes it look good performance.
Well this one’s designed to slip quickly into index funds and forced buying, so it makes sense to be high.
-digs around in depths of my heart for some sympathy-
Nope, fresh out.
Wow, who could have seen that coming?
What do you mean by “the average buyer.” Wouldn’t all buyers currently be in the same exact position?
Those who have the most shares (the private buyers, execs, c-suite, boardmembers, DJT n Fam) purchased well before IPO.
The “average buyer” are the retail big box store brokers who sold off those early shares to your name brand brokers so morons on WSB and Robinhood could claim to be astronaut investors.
I’m probably wrong about something so don’t fact check me.
No that’s pretty much it. Big institutional investors already were invested privately before. A handful of smaller institutions usually get priority at special rates unaffected by the initial fluctuations.
The big bold number that gets blasted by the media are what the everyday person has access to. And they’re always the first to get fucked, as designed.
Wall Street’s motto is: Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Everything follows that.
This guy gets it.
I’ve read that there are masses that are now shorting the stock too, and they’re making money on the dip. Those wouldn’t be your average buyer. Although idk if any of that is considered in that statement from the author.
