Elon Musk’'s SpaceX’i is preparing for the most important stock market start in history. The rocket and satellite company is set to be listed on Wall Street’te as early as next month, with reports that the company could raise up to $75 billion (68 billion euros); This figure will eclipse all public offerings recorded so far.
To put this into perspective, here every record holder will be one step ahead.
The current champion: the Saudi Aramco
The world's most profitable oil company, December 2019’da Riyadh Stock ExchangeThe world's most profitable oil company, December 2019’da Riyadh Stock Exchange, ranks first with a listing of $ 25.6 billion (€ 23.2 billion).
This was a turning point for ’'s Vision 2030 move to separate the kingdom from oil revenues and open its economy to foreign investors; This plan was launched in 2016 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the center of Aramco’, the most important jewel of the Saudi economy.
But that would still be less than a third of the goal reported by SpaceX’.
Category: Technology giants
Alibaba is in second place. Jack Ma’'s e-commerce empire, September 2014’te New York Stock Exchange’nda was the most exciting technology launch ever at the time, raising $21.8 billion (EUR 19.8 billion) and holding that record for years.
Another big list on the technology front was Facebook (now called Meta), which raised $16 billion (14.5 billion euros).
May 2012The Nasdaq launch in ’ became famous for technical glitches that plunged the stock into chaos and marked the start of a painful few weeks for early investors. Zuckerberg ’in has since become one of the most valuable companies in the world.
the Japanese Union
SoftBank Corp. raised $21.3 billion (EUR 19.3 billion) at ’ in Tokyo’ in December 2018. Founder Masayoshi Son, one of the most famous gamblers of technology; The man whose first bet on Alibaba’ was worth tens of billions of dollars at the end.
The list also includes NTT DoCoMo, the mobile arm of ’'s state-backed telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone’. October 1998The $18.1 billion (€16.4 billion) Tokyo listing in ’ comes at the height of a global mobile boom that investors are crying out to open up to the industry.
China’in banking giants
The inclusion of two state-owned Chinese credit institutions on the list is a reminder of how dominant Beijing ’'s financial institutions became in the years following the 2008 crisis.
Agricultural Bank of China, July 2010’da Shanghai and Hong Kong’da raised $19.2 billion (€17.4 billion); This is one of the largest lists emerging from the state-driven economic expansion of ’ in China.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's largest bank in terms of assets and with a balance sheet larger than the GDP ’ of most countries, generated $19.1 billion (€17.3 billion) in revenue from the same two exchanges in 2006.
The rest of the field
Visa raised $17.9 billion (€16.2 billion) at the NYSE opening in ’ in March 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis; This was a significant indicator of investors' confidence at a time when the Wall Street ’ was unraveling.
Asian insurance giant AIA Group, which emerged from the wreckage of AIG’, which almost collapsed in the same crisis, generated revenues of $17.8 billion (EUR 16.1 billion) in October 2010’da Hong Kong’da.
Italy's Enel, currently one of ’'s largest energy companies and a major player in the global renewable energy move, made its debut in Milan and New York’ in November 1999, with an increase of $16.5 billion (€15 billion).
SpaceX will not only be at the top of the list if it achieves its reported goal, but it will also be almost three times larger than the current record.
