Should you buy SpaceX, Open AI, or Anthropic stock at IPO?
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
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SpaceX is expected to go public next week in what could be the biggest initial public offering ever. Anthropic has also filed for an IPO, likely later this year; OpenAI is moving in that direction, too. With all the hype around these companies, should retail investors — or regular people, for that matter — get in on these IPOs? We do the numbers so you don't have to. Plus, migrant workers in Italy are organizing for better conditions, and Anthropic wants coordinated plans for slowing AI development.
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| 0:00.0 | To IPO or not to IPO? From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall-Genzor in Washington. A week from today, if nothing changes, SpaceX will go public in what's expected to be the biggest IPO ever. Anthropic has also filed for an IPO. OpenAI is moving in that direction too. With all the hype around these |
| 0:22.3 | companies, should retail investors, that is regular people, get in on these IPOs or not? |
| 0:28.1 | Marketplace's Samantha Fields reports. When Apple went public in 1980, shares were $22. If you'd bought |
| 0:35.3 | $1,000 worth back then and held it, you would have about $3 million today. |
| 0:40.8 | Kathleen Hanley at Lehigh University says buying and holding is generally a good investing strategy. |
| 0:46.6 | But with these big hyped IPOs... |
| 0:49.1 | I think many investors think, oh, I'm going to, you know, make a huge profit off this and sell it right away. |
| 0:55.0 | And she says that often doesn't work out for regular people, most of whom can only buy stock |
| 0:59.5 | on the secondary market once the price has already shot up. |
| 1:02.5 | For the most part, one should not expect short-run profits right after trading. |
| 1:09.4 | We know that many of these firms underperform. |
| 1:12.4 | Meaning their share price declines after they go public. Jay Ritter directs the IPO initiative |
| 1:17.8 | at the University of Florida. He says for all the apples, Amazon, and NVIDIAs of the world, |
| 1:22.4 | there have also over the years been hundreds of other highly touted tech companies that now you never |
| 1:30.9 | have heard of because they haven't lived up to all of the potential. As for SpaceX, Anthropic, and |
| 1:38.1 | Open AI? These are great companies. A great company doesn't automatically mean it's a great investment. When the initial |
| 1:46.0 | valuation in stock price is so high, Ritter says it can take a long time to pay off. Take Apple. |
| 1:52.3 | It jumped on the first day of trading about 30%. And then he says it largely underperformed for the |
| 1:58.2 | next two decades. I'm Samantha Fields for Marketplace. |
| 2:02.8 | Anthropic is urging the biggest AI developers to agree ahead of time on how to respond if |
| 2:08.3 | AI systems learn how to improve themselves quickly. Anthropic wants to create a plan for |
| 2:13.4 | a coordinated slowdown or pause in development. Marketplace's Nova Saffo has more. |
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