Nagham Hassan, Market Analyst at eToro

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – July 06, 2026:

SpaceX (SPCX) went public on June 12, raised $85.7 billion in the largest IPO in history, and within 15 trading days is joining the Nasdaq-100. The speed of that entry is unusual but deliberate. Nasdaq changed its eligibility rules to allow fast-track inclusion for large new listings, and SpaceX qualified under those new rules. The S&P 500 declined to do the same, which is why SpaceX sits in the Nasdaq-100 but not in the index that most global funds benchmark against.

According to Nagham Hassan, Market Analyst at eToro, every fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 has to buy SpaceX shares before the market opens on July 7, driven purely by the index rebalancing rules. More than $800 billion tracks this benchmark, and J.P. Morgan estimates the rebalancing will channel around $4.3 billion into SPCX, with an additional $3 billion from Russell index adjustments. The stock’s public float is only 4 to 5% of its 13 billion total shares outstanding, a thin pool of supply meeting a large wave of forced demand, pointing toward meaningful upward price pressure around the inclusion date.

Index funds buy to match their benchmark, not to trade. Once they reach their target weighting, the forced buying stops. Traders who bought ahead of the inclusion may sell into that institutional buying to lock in their gains, meaning the price could spike on July 6 and 7 and then partially give back those gains in the days following.

After July 7 the inclusion is a done event. The stock trades on sentiment and other news or developments until Q2 earnings arrive, expected sometime in late July or early August with no confirmed date yet, which will be the first real test of whether the current valuation holds. Two scenarios follow. Strong earnings mean buyers stay interested, the price holds at the level the index buying helped establish. It also means that when the first 20% of restricted insider shares become sellable, the market should have enough buyers to absorb the new supply without the price dropping. Weak earnings, on the other hand, mean the stock is already elevated from forced buying, sentiment will turn, and the unlock will arrive into a market where sellers have both the reason and the ability to sell. 

For anyone holding QQQ, QQQM, or any Nasdaq-100 tracking fund, market data estimates show SpaceX sitting in your portfolio at roughly 0.5 to 0.7% of your position following its automatic addition during the index rebalancing. Nasdaq recorded its strongest first-half IPO performance in history at $129.3 billion, with SpaceX’s listing driving a significant portion of that, and from July 7, the performance of that listing flows directly into the returns of every fund that tracks it.

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Notes to Editor:

The survey, commissioned by the trading and investing platform eToro, sampled 1,000 retail investors residing in the UAE. The survey was conducted from March 13, 2026 – March 26, 2026, and carried out by research company Appinio. Retail investors were defined as self-directed or advised and had to hold at least one investment product including shares, bonds, funds, investment or equivalent. They did not need to be eToro users.

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