Factbox-Mega IPOs loom as Wall Street anticipates breakout year for listings

Feb 9 (Reuters) - Pent-up request for caller listings and a beardown pipeline of high-profile backstage companies specified arsenic Elon Musk's SpaceX is ​setting the signifier for what could beryllium a breakout twelvemonth for ‌the U.S. archetypal nationalist offering market.

Goldman Sachs predicted past week that proceeds from U.S. IPOs ‌could vault to a grounds $160 cardinal successful 2026, should the marquee names spell nationalist this year.

Market participants are besides optimistic connected a bigger twelvemonth for billion-dollar-plus IPOs, underpinned by a beardown pipeline of late-stage backstage companies.

However, risks inactive linger, ⁠with the caller sell-off successful ‌software stocks threatening to temper issuance enactment from the sector, which accounts for a sizable stock of the IPO backlog.

Here ‍is an overview of immoderate of the mega IPOs expected successful 2026:

SPACEX

Elon Musk's SpaceX is readying a blockbuster IPO that could worth it astatine much than $1.5 trillion and ​could instrumentality spot arsenic soon arsenic June, Reuters has reported.

SpaceX past week ‌announced the acquisition of artificial-intelligence startup xAI successful a record-setting deal, unifying Musk's AI and abstraction ambitions.

If SpaceX raises much than $25.6 billion, it would beryllium the world's largest IPO, eclipsing lipid large Saudi Aramco's listing successful 2019.

OPENAI

OpenAI was laying the groundwork for an IPO that could worth it astatine up to $1 ⁠trillion, with the ChatGPT shaper considering filing ​with securities regulators arsenic soon arsenic the ​second fractional of 2026, Reuters reported past year.

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer had said astatine the clip an IPO was not successful ‍the company's near-term plans.

ANTHROPIC

Claude-maker ⁠Anthropic hired instrumentality steadfast Wilson Sonsini to hole for an IPO that could instrumentality spot arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2026, the Financial Times reported ⁠in December.

An Anthropic spokesperson told Reuters astatine the clip the institution had not decided erstwhile ‌or whether it volition spell public.

(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil successful ‌Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)