Smart Money Is Already Moving Ahead of the Biggest IPO in History 

By Staff Writer at The Investment Journal

Thursday, December 18, 2025 9:30 A.M. CDT · 10 min read

Reuters recently revealed that the SpaceX IPO could be valued at upwards of $800 billion. 

Elon has hinted that what would be the largest IPO in history could happen in 2026 … and when the offering goes live, it has the potential to be the biggest disruption in the $1.8 trillion space economy since Sputnik.

Musk, Thiel and the other insiders could potentially increase their already massive fortunes substantially if and when SpaceX IPOs.

But whether it happens this year, next year, or later, there’s something that most investors miss:

By the time a company reaches that scale, the most significant upside potential is likely already gone.

That’s the bad news for investors who don’t have connections like Musk and Theil.

The good news? For most investors, the most important opportunities rarely sit at the center of the spotlight.

The real opportunity tends to appear earlier — not in the headline name, but in the infrastructure layer that made it inevitable.

Like, for example, today’s top performing stock: Starfighters Space (NYSE: FJET)

More on that company in a moment.

History is unambiguous on this point.

When railroads captured the public imagination, fortunes were made quietly in steel, land rights, and logistics.

When the internet went mainstream, the biggest gains flowed to data centers, networking, and cloud infrastructure.

When AI exploded, the market rushed first to models—and then, decisively, to compute and chips.

The same pattern is emerging in the “final frontier”: space.

The question is no longer whether space matters — McKinsey estimates the “Space economy” to be worth $1.8 trillion by 2030. 

The question now is: What becomes valuable when access, speed, and flexibility start to constrain growth?

Retail investors aren’t wrong to fixate on SpaceX.

It represents something larger than a company:

• Proof that space is commercial
• Proof that launches can be profitable
• Proof that speed compounds advantage

But that very success creates a second-order effect.

As space activity scales — commercially, scientifically, and strategically — the pressure shifts downstream.

From innovation to access.

From capability to availability.

From who can build to who can move, test, and iterate fast enough.

That’s where the next layer of attention tends to form.

 When investors hear “space,” they still think rockets.

Yet history suggests the most durable value often accrues elsewhere—to companies that:

• Relieve bottlenecks
• Create flexibility inside constrained systems
• Function as infrastructure rather than spectacle

These companies are rarely obvious. They often look early, niche, or unnecessary—right up until demand exposes the weakest link.

That is precisely why some investors are beginning to study Starfighters Space, a company that began trading publicly under the ticker NYSE: FJET in December 2025.

Retail investors today are not chasing novelty for novelty’s sake.

After years of volatility, supply-chain shocks, and geopolitical stress, a quieter shift has taken place:

Investors have become less focused on prediction… and more focused on preparedness.

They understand that:

• Systems break under pressure
• Redundancy becomes valuable late—but pays early
• Infrastructure often outlasts any single winner

That mindset is why conversations about a future SpaceX IPO naturally open the door to a deeper question:

If space is becoming essential infrastructure, what enables it when the system is stressed?

That question is where companies like Starfighters enter the frame.

This is not a thesis about hype, dominance, or inevitability.

It is a thesis about positioning.

If space activity continues to scale—and if access, testing cadence, and flexibility remain constraints—then companies designed to relieve those constraints may grow in relevance, regardless of which payloads or platforms ultimately prevail.

Starfighters Space (NYSE:FJET) is explicitly positioning around that idea.

Whether it succeeds will depend on execution, regulatory navigation, customer adoption, and capital discipline—factors investors should evaluate through filings and primary sources, not headlines.

Like any other investment, there’s risk involved in staking a claim in a company like Starfighters Space.

Though the company is already flying missions and generating revenue, it is still in the early stage of its growth trajectory. And execution is not guaranteed.

But risk cuts both ways … and the other half of the equation is reward. 

History shows that investors who wait for certainty often arrive after the market has already simplified — and priced — the story.

The rational response is not belief. And not dismissal.

It is research.

There is no urgency to buy this stock without doing your due diligence first.

There is urgency to understand it — before the narrative around space infrastructure becomes obvious, crowded, and shorthand.

Because when the biggest IPO in history finally happens — the smartest investors won’t be asking what just went public.

They’ll be asking:

What was the real opportunity all along?

And Starfighters Space (NYSE:FJET) could be their answer.

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