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Some doors in finance are not locked so much as priced. The velvet rope outside the year’s hottest deals is rarely a sign on the wall. It is a number in your account, and for most people that number has always sat out of reach.<\/p>\n
That is how the initial public offering, or IPO, has worked for decades. A company hires a syndicate of banks, the banks call their best clients, and the shares that matter get spoken for before the rest of us learn the name.<\/p>\n
Retail buyers usually get whatever is left, and only after the stock starts trading, often at a price the early crowd already ran up. Roughly 95% of the shares in a sought-after debut go to big institutional investors, University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter estimated for CNBC.<\/p>\n
Now, one of the country’s largest brokerages has moved that rope, and it did so for the biggest stock market debut anyone has ever attempted. <\/p>\n
Fidelity said it will let ordinary customers place an order for shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPCX) at the IPO price, and the account minimum is a sliver of what it used to be.<\/p>\n
What Fidelity just changed for everyday investors<\/p>\n
On June 4, Fidelity laid out how its brokerage customers can chase a piece of the deal. You sign up for IPO alerts, read the prospectus, submit a nonbinding indication of interest, then confirm the order once the price is set, according to Fidelity.<\/p>\n
The number that matters is the entry fee. Fidelity normally wants $500,000 in an account before it will take your indication of interest on an IPO. For SpaceX it cut that to $2,000, Barron’s reported.<\/p>\n
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When I lined up the new floor against the old one, the barrier had effectively dropped by more than 99%.<\/p>\n
Fidelity tied the move to supply. SpaceX is setting aside up to 30% of the offering for retail buyers, far above the norm. Most IPOs “offer retail customers only 5% to 10% of the total offering,” Fidelity said.<\/p>\n
The brokers are not moving in lockstep. Charles Schwab (SCHW) still wants $100,000 in an account, while Robinhood Markets (HOOD), SoFi Technologies (SOFI) and Morgan Stanley’s (MS) E*Trade set no portfolio minimum at all, Barron’s reported.<\/p>\n
Fidelity drops its account minimum to $2,000 so ordinary customers can bid for SpaceX’s IPO price.<\/p>\n
Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images<\/p>\n
How the largest IPO ever reached this point<\/p>\n
SpaceX plans to sell 555.6 million Class A shares at a fixed $135 each, a roughly $75 billion raise that would value the company near $1.77 trillion, according to CNBC. <\/p>\n
That would be the largest IPO in history, more than triple Alibaba’s $22 billion record from 2014. The deal is led by Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley, Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), and JPMorgan Chase (JPM).<\/p>\n
Founded in 2002, SpaceX grew from a rocket startup into a company spanning launches, defense contracts, the Starlink satellite network and, after a 2026 tie-up with xAI, artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Related: Anthropic scales its most powerful AI a day after filing to IPO<\/p>\n
Musk will hold about 82.4% of the voting power after the offering, the same kind of ironclad control he wields at Tesla (TSLA). That makes SpaceX a controlled company exempt from some Nasdaq governance rules.<\/p>\n
Here is the deal by the numbers:<\/p>\n
A $1.77 trillion valuation at $135 a share, more than triple Alibaba’s record 2014 debut, according to CNBCUp to 30% of shares reserved for retail buyers, versus the usual 5% to 10%, Fidelity confirmsA $2,000 Fidelity account minimum, down from as much as $500,000, Barron’s indicates2025 revenue of $18.674 billion, up 33%, against a net loss of about $4.94 billion, based on SpaceX’s SEC filing as reported by FortuneAn independent fair value of about $780 billion from Morningstar, according to Fortune<\/p>\n
At $1.77 trillion, SpaceX would rank as roughly the seventh most valuable U.S. company, just ahead of Tesla, Kiplinger noted.<\/p>\n
What the SpaceX IPO could mean for your portfolio<\/p>\n
Open access is not the same as a sure thing. By my math, the 555.6 million shares on offer are only about 4% of the roughly 13 billion shares SpaceX will have outstanding. A float that thin can send a stock lurching in both directions in its first days.<\/p>\n
There is also a leash on quick profits. Sell your allocated SpaceX shares within 15 calendar days, and Fidelity can bar you from new offerings for a stretch, with repeat sellers facing a permanent ban tied to their Social Security number, according to Fidelity.<\/p>\n
Then there is price. The $1.77 trillion tag sits more than twice Morningstar’s independent fair value of about $780 billion for a company that is not yet profitable, Fortune reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some advisers read Fidelity’s lowered bar as a marketing strategy as much as a show of generosity. The change “provides the optics that shares are available to more investors,” said David Kudla, chief executive of Mainstay Capital Management, in comments to Barron’s.<\/p>\n
In my analysis, the door is genuinely open, but walking through it does not guarantee a seat. An indication of interest only puts you in line. Allocation is decided the morning after pricing, and you may get a handful of shares, or none.<\/p>\n
Why a hot IPO summer is just starting<\/p>\n
SpaceX begins its investor roadshow this week, with pricing expected June 11 and trading on the Nasdaq set to begin June 12.<\/p>\n
It will not be alone for long. Anthropic filed confidentially for its own IPO on June 1, and OpenAI is preparing to follow, setting up a run of trillion-dollar listings that will test how much fresh stock public markets can absorb.<\/p>\n
The velvet rope has moved. Whether you step past it comes down to one honest question, the same one the institutions are quietly asking. <\/p>\n
Are you buying a piece of the future at a fair price, or paying tomorrow’s valuation for the privilege of getting in first?<\/p>\n
Related: SpaceX lands a $4 billion deal right before its IPO<\/p>\n
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