Key insights
- SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO is driving significant market activity. While SpaceX shares surged post-offering, other space companies like Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab saw declines. Semiconductor stocks experienced mixed movements. The IPO's success, marked by strong retail investor participation and oversubscription, indicates robust investor appetite for high-profile tech offerings, potentially boosting sentiment for related growth sectors.
Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Market Domination to tackle today's top trending tickers, including the momentum driving SpaceX (SPCX) shares in Friday's session after the company's IPO, the impact it is having on other space stocks Virgin Galactic (SPCE) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), and how semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are moving on the historic public offering.
It is time to cover some of today's trending tickers brought to you by CBO. We're watching SpaceX, other space stocks and chip names and joining me now live from the Nasdaq is Yahoo Finance's Brooke De Palma. So Brooke, we got to talk about SpaceX here. You were there at 11:45 a.m. when we got that first trade, 56 something million shares, $8.4 billion dollars. What was it like?
Yeah, I mean the stock opened up at 150, now hovering just above 160 after surpassing 170 earlier this day. Definitely the excitement, the energy, it is all there. But you can't help but also follow this story on social media as well. Elon Musk, uh particularly, uh sort of making this more than just an IPO itself. There are so many ways that this IPO is so unique including that $135 IPO price that we got even in the filing. On top of the fact that retail investors are getting larger piece of pie. But I also want to draw your attention to this tweet where they actually gave the underwriter, supposedly Elon Musk, giving the underwriters green shoes because of the green shoe option, essentially saying that underwriting banks can sell more shares than actually exists within the offer. Typically that's upwards of more than 15%. And so it just goes to show that the energy, the excitement and and the anticipation that this IPO going into it was already going to be oversubscribed. It's certainly there and you could see this just sort of playing out not only here at the Nasdaq but really across of social media. A lot of social posts that have been putting out are getting such high engagement. Um so really, SpaceX now trading above still above nearly uh 19% more than that IPO price of 150.
Yeah. We were just talking to Caleb Silver down at the New York Stock Exchange and guess what they're watching too. All right, we we got to move on here because looking at some of the other space stocks out there, you could say Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic, EchoStar, UFO ETF, they're all trading lower here. And this raises an overarching concern I've heard a lot this week, which is SpaceX is so big, maybe it's just sucking money out of other trades and there are concerns that maybe, you know, we're putting in a temporary market top here because of its size. What do you think, Brooke?
Right. Right. Well, if you take a look at SPCE, which is quite similar to SPCX, which is what SpaceX is now trading under, that's Virgin Galactic. And going into this, year to date, the stock was up more than 22%. Now the stock trading just below $4 per share. And so you have to wonder with so much discussion around how this SpaceX IPO was really providing such momentum to the space economy, the interest in the space economy, you have to wonder how these IPOs or rather how these companies within the space sector will perform following this when it seems like everybody wants to be in on the company who seemingly seems to be doing everything. I mean, Elon Musk wants to build a colony on Mars. Elon Musk is already putting data centers or rather satellites into space, eventually data centers into space. He also wants to get colonization on the moon. And so they're playing into these long-term bet that's also taking some near-term strategy. A company that's not profitable, a companies that's revenue is far less than its valuation, but it seems like investors right now willing to take the risk, perhaps moving away from some of these, you know, old school, long running space companies that we've seen listed for quite some time.
Sure, like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc. Want to talk to you about semiconductors because they've had an incredible run this quarter, but they've been under a bit of pressure at various times this week and part of what I was just talking about, the concern that some of the uh that the SpaceX trade is being funded by other parts of the market. Well, are we seeing that in the chip trade here?
Yeah, what we're seeing as we head or make our way into this afternoon, if you take a look at what we're seeing within the YF interactive, we are seeing uh some intraday trading, mostly a mixed picture, but Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, ASML, all down, moving lower, but at the same time, you do have some stocks that are benefiting not only from perhaps this risk-on sentiment that SpaceX is is inviting to the market given that it has outperformed expectations, certainly well above that 135 IPO price. But on top of that, too, you have this potential ceasefire uh within uh with between the US and Iran. So that's certainly contributing to some momentum that we're seeing in the market, too. But some of the names seeing the most momentum today include Intel, ARM, Qualcomm, even SanDisk seeing a nice pop. And so certainly these names that are playing into this larger AI narrative are seeing some tailwinds because of the SpaceX IPO, Jared.
Yeah, and you got to think that the uh the winners, that might be a narrower group going forward. But I appreciate you stopping by here, Brooke. Yeah.