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Elon Musk's SpaceX is already closing in on Microsoft's market cap and a big Apple milestone
Key takeaways
- Space X stock is up 9% in premarket trading on Tuesday, indicating an open of above $200 for the first time.
- A $2.9 trillion market cap for Space X would put it roughly in line with tech heavyweight and nicely profitable Microsoft (MSFT), with a $2.95 trillion market cap, according to Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace data.
- What s more, the combined market cap of Elon Musk s SpaceX ($2.9 trillion) and Tesla (TSLA) ($1.3 trillion) would be near the $4.3 trillion market cap of Apple (AAPL), which is also nicely profitable, unlike SpaceX.
Elon Musk's Space X is already closing in on Microsoft's market cap and a big Apple milestone Brian Sozzi · Executive Editor Tue, June 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM GMT+7 2 min read SPCX MSFT TSLA AAPL It s blast-off for the newly minted public rocket company Space X (SPCX).
Space X stock is up 9% in premarket trading on Tuesday, indicating an open of above $200 for the first time. At this level, Space X would open with a market cap of more than $2.9 trillion.
A $2.9 trillion market cap for Space X would put it roughly in line with tech heavyweight and nicely profitable Microsoft (MSFT), with a $2.95 trillion market cap, according to Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace data.
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