Elon Musk's SpaceX Just Joined the Nasdaq-100. Now What?

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Lee Samaha, The Motley Fool

Sat, July 11, 2026 astatine 4:35 PM CDT 3 min read

Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) entered the Nasdaq-100 scale connected July 7, and investors volition anticipation it provides further enactment for an already palmy archetypal nationalist offering (IPO). But what does the scale inclusion truly mean, and what tin SpaceX investors expect successful the future?

Where adjacent for SpaceX?

The Nasdaq-100 scale inclusion does matter. It triggers forced passive buying of the banal by funds (including exchange-traded funds, oregon ETFs) that way the Nasdaq-100 index. In addition, galore actively managed funds whitethorn put lone successful stocks listed successful the Nasdaq-100 index, and others whitethorn necessitate holdings successful SpaceX banal to conscionable their fund's weighting requirements. All of this is apt to supply immoderate enactment for the stock price.

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While this volition occur, investors besides request to beryllium mindful of periodic bouts of selling arsenic SpaceX's lock-up expiry dates approach. Digging into the company's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings makes it wide that the imaginable for periodic proviso hitting the marketplace is real. For reference, astir 639 cardinal shares were sold astatine IPO, and SpaceX has 13.17 cardinal shares outstanding.

Data source: Space Exploration Technologies SEC filings.

As you tin see, importantly much shares could travel to marketplace than were sold astatine IPO, and that could beryllium much impactful than the Nasdaq-100 listing.