Billionaire Elon Musk spent $1.4 billion last year to build up a stake in his aerospace company SpaceX by buying shares from current and former employees, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-bought-14-billion-spacex-shares-last-year-information-reports-2026-04-21/">reported</a>, citing The Information. The deals were done through Musk's trust fund, the article said.

Elon Musk bought $1.4 billion worth of SpaceX stock ahead of the company's IPO - The Information

Arxis, Inc. Class A Common Stock

Preliminary trading in shares of aerospace and defense components supplier Arxis has begun on the Freedom client trading system. Arxis is one of the first defense companies to go public this year as investors seek to capitalize on the increased interest in the sector amid conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, according <a href="https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/arcline-backed-defense-supplier-arxis-to-go-public-in-roughly-1-billion-ipo-1943efea">to</a> The Wall Street Journal. Later on April 16, the company's securities will appear on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker ARXS. To participate, click on the ticker <a href="https://tap.freedom24.com/to/quote/HMH.US?utm_source=stocks&amp;utm_medium=ARXS.US&amp;utm_campaign=pfu17521958">ARXS</a>.

Arxis IPO: Shares of aerospace parts maker begin trading

Alphabet Inc.

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

Marvell Technology, Inc.

Spotify Technology S.A.

Google itself has not disclosed the exact size of its stake in SpaceX

Google's early investment in SpaceX could turn into a 12-figure sum - Bloomberg

Firefly Aerospace Inc.

BlackSky Technology Inc.

Barron’s has <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/space-stocks-artemis-spacex-rocket-lab-firefly-12488c13?mod=RTA">identified</a>&nbsp;15 space-related stocks from the so-called Space 60 list compiled by Morgan Stanley as a comprehensive roster of publicly traded companies tied to the sector. Barron’s selected these names as a “good start for investors who want to space growth in their portfolios.” Among them are two smid-cap companies.

Smid caps Firefly and BlackSky feature in Barron's 15 stocks for 'new space race'

Amazon.com, Inc.

Globalstar, Inc.

Amazon <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414237496/en/Amazon-to-Acquire-Globalstar-and-Expand-Amazon-Leo-Satellite-Network">has agreed to</a> buy satellite operator Globalstar for about $11.6 billion - as part of an effort to build its own satellite infrastructure.

Amazon to buy satellite company Globalstar to compete with Musk's Starlink

"The "Magnificent Seven" of leading technology companies may turn into an "eight" this summer. In early April, it was <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-02/spacex-is-said-to-target-more-than-2-trillion-valuation-in-ipo">reported</a> that Elon Musk's SpaceX, the largest private space company in the world, is preparing to go public. Undoubtedly, this is a landmark event for the market: as Fortune magazine calculated, if the company gets the expected $50-75 billion, it will be more than all 90 IPOs of the last year <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/spacex-ipo-stock-price-launch-elon-musk/">combined</a>. Investors willing to invest in <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/kosmos-roboty-i-bioteh-kakie-tehnologii-budut-dvigat-rynki-v-2026-godu">promising</a> space technologies will finally have their own "blue chip" - and it will be a bet not only on space, but on masconomics.

Rockets, AI and a bit of masconomics: what SpaceX is really selling at its IPO

The company plans to launch the largest offering in history as early as June

SpaceX records $5 billion annual loss ahead of IPO - Media

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.

Microchip Technology Incorporated

STMicroelectronics N.V.

Truist has named stocks that could benefit from the satellite boom. Should you buy them?

Tesla, Inc.

Unilever PLC

McCormick & Company, Incorporated

US President Donald Trump said that the war with Iran is <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/tramp-ne-skazal-kogda-zakoncitsa-vojna-v-irane-ekonomika-uze-nastroilas-na-krizis">close to being over</a>, but promised new strikes against the country in the next two to three weeks. He also shifted the responsibility for unblocking the Strait of Hormuz to other countries. SpaceX is preparing the largest IPO in history, counting on a valuation of over $2 trillion. Job growth in the U.S. in March almost three times exceeded analysts' expectations, but there are also some worrying signals in the statistics. You can read about the main events from March 30 to April 3 in our review.

SpaceX IPO, oil at its highest since 2008, unexpectedly strong US job growth - top stories of the week

Viasat, Inc.

Iridium Communications Inc.

Shares of Iridium Communications and Viasat, two small-cap satellite communications providers, surged more than 15% on Thursday. The rally was triggered by a Financial Times report that Amazon is in talks to acquire their peer, satellite company Globalstar.

Small space stocks soar on report of Amazon interest in Starlink peer

Apple Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

With this capitalization, SpaceX would be more expensive than Tesla, which is also headed by Elon Musk

Musk's SpaceX targets valuation of more than $2 trillion in IPO - Bloomberg

Morgan Stanley

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bank of America Corporation

Citigroup Inc.

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