Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SPCX Chief Executive

What Elon Musk says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

CEO & Chairman · Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Founded SpaceX in 2002. Also CEO of Tesla; SpaceX's AI segment (xAI, Grok, X) merged into the company ahead of its 2026 IPO.

@elonmusk
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
81/ 100
Level 4Founder-Anchor

Musk owns 48.4% of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., worth $968.30B at the last close — founder-owned since 2002.

Age
55
Founded
2002
SEC filings
173
Stake 48.4% of the class on the latest 13G — a stake no board can route around 35/35
Founder Founder — on the cap table from day one 15/15
Tenure In the chair since May 2002 — 24 years 10/10
Track record 2 companies sold or taken public before this chair 10/15
Direction Exercise-and-sell — 11,390 shares ($1.2M) sold, all covered by option exercises; the underlying stake is flat 4/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 173 filings 7/10
Track record · other companies
  • 1995–99Zip2 · co-foundersold to Compaq · $307M
  • 1999–02X.com / PayPal · co-founder, CEOsold to eBay · $1.5B
  • 2016–Neuralink · The Boring Company · founderprivate
  • 2023–xAI · foundermerged into SpaceX

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Beneficial stake · 13G 6.42B 48.4% of the class · $968.30B at the Oct 1 close of $150.86
Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 4.77B Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Jun 15, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $1.2M Apr 2, 2026 · 11,390 shares at $105.32 · no 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2026-04-02 open-market sale in SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP was filed 2026-06-17, 53 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported Space Exploration Technologies Corp. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-06-15
02B4B6B 2026 Jun 2026: net +3.57B shares across 3 movements (largest: convert +3.12B)Apr 2026: net −198,415 shares across 3 movements (largest: other −186,545)Mar 2026: net −25.2M shares across 1 movement (largest: to issuer −25.2M)Feb 2026: 3 movements (largest: award +532.7M) 4.77B

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Class B Common StockElon Musk Revocable Trust3,788,654,145
Class A Common StockElon Musk Revocable Trust842,091,670
Class B Common StockMission Trust127,426,150
Class A Common StockEM 2024 GRAT-A7,402,770
Class B Common StockMusk 2017 Sprinkling Trust900,495
Reported as of 2026-06-154,766,475,230
Why the two headline numbers differ

The 13G cover page counts 6.42B shares — 1.65B more than the Forms 4 report, usually options exercisable within 60 days or shares held through a vehicle the person controls but does not file for. Never add them together.

Held directly
0%
Vehicles
4 trusts or entities
Share classes
2
Last filing
Jun 17, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 13 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Jun 15, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative across 3 lots · Class A Common Stock +315,926,250 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust
Jun 15, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative across 2 lots · Class B Common Stock +3,124,848,050 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust
Jun 15, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class B Common Stock +127,426,150 — — Through Mission Trust
Apr 2, 2026 Sale Open-market sale · Class A Common Stock −11,390 $105.32 $1.2M Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust · no 10b5-1 plan · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Apr 2, 2026 Gift Gift · Class A Common Stock −480 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Apr 2, 2026 Other Other acquisition or disposition · Class A Common Stock −186,545 — — Through Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Mar 23, 2026 To issuer Disposition to the issuer · Class A Common Stock −25,172,695 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Feb 2, 2026 Award Grant or award · Class A Common Stock +511,289,725 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Feb 2, 2026 Award Grant or award · Class A Common Stock +78,395 — — Through Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Feb 2, 2026 Award Grant or award · Class B Common Stock +532,689,090 — — Through Elon Musk Revocable Trust · Filed Jun 17, 2026, outside the two-day window
Every issuer Elon Musk files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
SPCX SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP This page CEO, CTO & Chairman 4.77B
2026-06-15		 6.42B 48.4%
SPCX: 1,652,072,285 shares on the Section 16 filings are additional to the SCHEDULE 13G figure — read the cover page for why.
TSLA Tesla, Inc. CEO 1.12B
2026-06-16		 700M 19.9%
TSLA: 423,743,904 shares on the Section 16 filings are excluded from the SCHEDULE 13G/A figure — read the cover page for why.
EDR Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. Director 7,583
2022-06-13		 — —
SCTY SOLARCITY CORP · exited Director —
2016-11-21		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

173 filings under CIK 0001494730 · captured 2026-09-03 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Aug 4, 2026 SpaceX's first call as a public company, and Musk used it to argue that three businesses are really one: Falcon already lifts 80–90% of the world's mass to orbit, Starship is meant to take that from ~2,500 tons a year to "well over 1 million," and the same hardware engineering is being pointed at terrestrial data centres — where he claims a 20 GW power-and-cooling target for the end of next year and "a very significant percentage" of NVIDIA's GPUs. He put the December run-rate at $100 billion and said it is "not a question mark." Read the call · 11 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

2 recorded appearances

2026

Podcast Dwarkesh Podcast · Feb 5, 2026 · 2h 50m

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"

With Dwarkesh Patel and John Collison, Musk makes the case that orbital data centers beat terrestrial ones within ~30-36 months: space solar is roughly 5x more productive with no batteries or weather, while Earth power capacity is flat against exponential chip output. He projects hundreds of gigawatts a year of space-launched AI within five years, and concedes China will 'utterly dominate' manufacturing absent US breakthroughs.

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