Bearish for the Nasdaq
SpaceX IPO Valuation Bubble Risk
Quiet
Little coverage in Nasdaq 100 in the 7 days to 21 October.
Judged on the 7-day share of Nasdaq 100 coverage to 21 October
Updated 21 October 2026
The bearish argument: SpaceX's valuation thesis is fundamentally flawed due to unrealistic AI capabilities, unproven orbital infrastructure, and unsustainable productivity assumptions that make a market crash highly probable
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WDIV ClickOnDetroit · Published 15 Sep 2026
Asian shares trade mixed as markets continue to watch AI stocks and oil prices
In coverage record: 16 Sep 2026
“AI stocks have been under pressure a while because of worries their prices shot too high in the frenzy around the technology. The concerns jumped to another level over the weekend after one of the industry's leading voices, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, called for a deliberate and global slowdown in the development of AI.”
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Devdiscourse · Published 5 Aug 2026
US STOCKS-Mideast deal hopes lift Dow, S&P to records; SpaceX, AMD drag Nasdaq
In coverage record: 6 Aug 2026
“SpaceX's revenue nearly doubled and operating losses narrowed in its first earnings report since going public, fueled by its booming Starlink satellite communications and AI businesses, but shares tumbled about 12% on concerns about how long the company could maintain spending on AI-related investments such as data centers.”
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Benzinga · Published 28 Jul 2026
Could Skills Shortages Create Fresh Headwinds for Wall Street’s Hyperscalers?
In coverage record: 29 Jul 2026
“At a time when valuations are far in excess of revenues in AI, it pays to spend more time researching Wall Street's brightest prospects and comparing them against peers that may be less likely to survive the industry's growing headwinds. This suggests that the ongoing period of stagnation among AI firms could see investors reevaluate their credentials, creating a new generation of winners and losers to track.”
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Benzinga · Published 27 Jul 2026
Nebius Stock Bounces Off $164 Support: What's Driving the Rebound?
In coverage record: 28 Jul 2026
“Value: Weak (Score: 4.99) — The market is pricing in a lot of future growth, leaving less room for error if expectations slip.”
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Benzinga · Published 24 Jul 2026
Magnificent 7 Payout Ratio Drops to 37%: Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer Asks if it's 'The End of an Era?' as M
In coverage record: 25 Jul 2026
“Rich valuations are the case for the Mag 7, observing that as these firms ramp up spending, returns have been 'flat to slightly down.' Brent Schutte advised investors to pivot toward companies with actual earnings rather than paying for valuations dependent upon outcomes that 'may or may not actually happen.'”
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TNW · Published 18 Jul 2026
TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.
In coverage record: 19 Jul 2026
“AI stock valuations predicated on revenue growth that has not fully materialised at the scale prices imply.”
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Benzinga · Published 9 Jul 2026
Nasdaq 'Cheated and Changed the Laws' to Fit SpaceX in, Famed Investor Jeremy Grantham Says
In coverage record: 10 Jul 2026
“$1.7 trillion for a company that's rolling in red ink when 90% of the projection are on the AI of their currently third-rate AI offering who's getting kicked around the block by Anthropic and OpenAI and so on.”
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NewsBreak · Published 8 Jul 2026
Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says history will end up laughing at SpaceX, the ‘craziest IPO in the history of man’ that just joined the Nasdaq 100
In coverage record: 9 Jul 2026
“In 50 years, they'll be telling and writing stories about SpaceX, and they'll be quoting you paragraphs from the prospectus, and you will be laughing at it.”
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution · Published 8 Jul 2026
Oil prices jump more than 2% after US strikes on Iran, while world shares retreat
In coverage record: 9 Jul 2026
“waves of worries that the craze for artificial intelligence-related shares has pushed prices beyond the productivity gains and profits likely to result from massive investments in computer chip production capacity and data centers”
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Fox Business · Published 8 Jul 2026
Billionaire Jeremy Grantham says SpaceX IPO is the 'craziest' in market history
In coverage record: 9 Jul 2026
“"It will be amazing, by the way, if it doesn't collapse, because it will need such massive developments on AI that our entire lives are totally different."”
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TNW · Published 7 Jul 2026
SpaceX’s biggest bull sees a $10.5tn valuation
In coverage record: 8 Jul 2026
“Jeremy Grantham co-founded GMO and has a name for calling bubbles. He told Morningstar this week that a SpaceX crash looks 90 per cent likely. Grantham called parts of the pitch 'utterly inconceivable.' He said the AI looked third-rate next to OpenAI and Anthropic.”
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