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by bostik 12 days ago
Matt Levine pointed out to a likely culprit, and it indeed has nothing to do with the business outlooks.[0]

SpaceX sold only 5% of their stock in the IPO. Earliest lockups will start to [partially] expire in mid-August, bringing in further 7% of SpaceX stock to market. If you expect the market to be flooded with >2x volume of supply, you can either sell right now before the price drops even further or hold and wait for the business fundamentals catch up with pricing expectations.

0: https://bloom.bg/4f7pFnd

1 comments

Yes, that’s what the parent comment meant by “there is going to be a ton of new float fairly soon”