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The S&P 500 Snubs SpaceX as Elon Musk Describes a Coming ‘Massive Growth Phase’
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- QQQ already runs concentrated, with NVDA at 10% and MSFT at 9% of a fund up 41% over the past year before Space X joins.
- Space X launches with a 4% float and a 366-day founder lock-up, engineering a forced-buying wave while concentrating both upside and downside risk at listing.
- Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Invesco QQQ Trust didn t make the cut.
The S&P 500 Snubs Space X as Elon Musk Describes a Coming ‘Massive Growth Phase’ Thomas Richmond Fri, June 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM GMT+7 4 min read SPAX.PVT ^GSPC QQQ NVDA AAPL Quick Read NASDAQ fast-tracks Space X into the NASDAQ 100, creating forced buying through QQQ while the S&P 500 with 20x more tracked assets holds its standards.
QQQ already runs concentrated, with NVDA at 10% and MSFT at 9% of a fund up 41% over the past year before Space X joins.
Space X launches with a 4% float and a 366-day founder lock-up, engineering a forced-buying wave while concentrating both upside and downside risk at listing.
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