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Forbes Daily: Elon Musk Is On The Verge Of Becoming A Trillionaire

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SpaceX’s long-awaited stock market debut is here, and investor demand is sky-high.

Elon Musk’s rocket company finalized its IPO price at $135 per share with an implied market cap of $1.8 trillion—a record debut—and demand is reportedly oversubscribed more than four times over. Retail traders have submitted orders for more than $100 billion in shares of the firm, Bloomberg reported.

Still, not everyone is convinced of the company’s value. Morningstar analysts recently projected SpaceX to trade at $63 per share, with Chief Equity Strategist Michael Field calling the valuation “extremely speculative.”

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Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming a trillionaire thanks to SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO price: Forbes now estimates he’s worth $982 billion. Musk isn’t the only person whose fortune soared: Others include a Saudi prince, Twitter’s cofounder and several SpaceX board members and executives, including the company’s longtime chief financial officer Bret Johnsen, who is now a billionaire.

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