{"id":1153,"date":"2026-06-06T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:37:24","slug":"musks-spacex-ipo-jolts-life-back-into-european-retail-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s SpaceX IPO jolts life back into European retail investing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><li>Companies<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; European retail investors are among those jockeying for a piece of the hotly anticipated SpaceX (SPCX.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> initial public offering, but some \u200bobservers warn the deal could prove a bumpy ride for those without the resources that institutional investors have behind them.<\/div><div>SpaceX is considering allocating as much as \u200c30% of the deal to individual investors &#8211; an unusually large retail tranche &#8211; with offerings planned in the UK, Germany, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.<\/div><div>In Britain, eight online investing platforms have begun inviting UK customers to apply for shares in the $75 billion raise, seen by some as the most significant retail offering in the country since the flotation of then state-owned Royal Mail in 2013, and a chance \u200bto re-energise a lacklustre investing culture.<\/div><div>&#8220;The retail interest here is unlike any other deal, investors want to be part of the dream,&#8221; said Ygal El Harrar, BNP \u200bParibas&#8217; global head of equity capital markets, technology.<\/div><div>European IPO issuance has slumped since 2021 and the proportion of household assets held in financial \u2060securities is just 17%, according to the European Union, a figure dwarfed by the 43% in the United States.<\/div><div>Three academics and one consumer rights advocate advised caution due to \u200bthe lofty $1.75 trillion valuation of the loss-making SpaceX, while the small float size of less than 5% and a lack of voting rights could pose risks.<\/div><div>SpaceX did not respond to a request \u200bfor comment. Its founder and leader Elon Musk said on Thursday that he felt &#8220;pretty good&#8221; about the company&#8217;s revenue projections and that revenue had become &#8220;much more predictable&#8221;.<\/div><h2>LIFT OFF<\/h2><div>Opinion on investment forums and platforms like Reddit is mixed, with some enthusiastic and others put off by the high valuation or Musk&#8217;s leadership.<\/div><div>Hargreaves Lansdown said 35,000 of its clients had registered an interest in IPO alerts since SpaceX&#8217;s offer was first rumoured in \u200bApril.<\/div><div>Revolut&#8217;s dedicated webpage for the share sale in Britain aimed at signing up new customers features a full-page video of a SpaceX rocket lifting off before outlining risks including that \u200bapplicants may not receive any shares at all.<\/div><div>Meziane Lasfer, Professor of Finance at Bayes Business School in London, said that while institutional investors have databases and financial analysts to help them determine the true \u200cvalue of \u2060a company, retail investors would be taking a &#8220;very big risk&#8221;.<\/div><div>\u201cIt is a company that is making huge losses and at the price it\u2019s coming to market, it\u2019s at 100 times price to sales, which is extremely high&#8230;Normally about twice to three times is very good.\u201d<\/div><div>The CEO of JPMorgan, one of the vast syndicate of banks working on the IPO, said it was looking to treat &#8220;individual investors the same way institutions are treated&#8221;.<\/div><h2>SETTING A PRECEDENT<\/h2><div>UK-based Marex Financial is operating a public offer platform where the eight retail platforms &#8211; also including AJ Bell, CMC Markets, eToro, Freetrade, \u200bInteractive Brokers and interactive investor &#8211; can send \u200bprospective investors&#8217; orders.<\/div><div>Mike Coombes, chief operating officer \u2060of British retail investment platform PrimaryBid, said this new approach could set a precedent for other foreign firms targeting UK buyers.<\/div><div>An executive at one of the retail platforms involved said it was encouraging that everyday investors were getting early access to an IPO rather than only \u200bbeing able to buy shares in the secondary market.<\/div><div>eToro said in a press release that the minimum application on its platform was $750, \u200bwhile Hargreaves Lansdown is \u2060asking for \u00a31,000 ($1,334).<\/div><div>BNP Paribas&#8217; El Harrar said that retail participation in IPOs is a new obsession for technology companies that have shifted from maybe having at most 15% of their order book placed with such investors, to double that.<\/div><div>While there has been a regulatory push in the UK to make it easier for retail investors to buy into IPOs, there has been a dearth of deals \u2060to choose from \u200bamid a global slowdown in new listings.<\/div><div>Of the 15 largest UK IPOs in 2021, only one included a \u200bretail tranche, according to Coombes. That was Deliveroo, which offered retail investors a 50 million pound slice of its \u00a31.5 billion IPO via PrimaryBid. 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