Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTJared BlikreUpdated Fri, June 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM GMT+2 3 min readSpaceX (SPCX) begins trading Friday after the largest IPO ever, putting retail demand for the stock to its first public-market test.That test is arriving after signs retail traders may already have been making room for it.Retail selling across single stocks just hit the heaviest level since November 2023, according to research from Vanda Research, with pressure concentrated in semiconductor names including Micron (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK).At the same time, retail buying of space stocks has climbed further, reaching its highest level since December 2024, according to Vanda.1-month rolling sum, $ millions · Vanda AnalyticsThat does not mean investors are dumping chips to buy SpaceX. Broadcom (AVGO) and Marvell (MRVL) had been drawing retail buying earlier in the week, according to Vanda, making this less a broad semiconductor exit than a test of where retail attention goes next.But Vanda's latest note sharpened the funding question.The firm said aggregate retail activity is still on track for its softest week of net buying since March 2020, even after Thursday brought the strongest day of single-stock retail buying this week.Vanda also said Micron's one-month rolling retail flows have swung from roughly $350 million of net buying to roughly $250 million of net selling — a sign that recent AI winners could become a funding source if retail sees SpaceX as the cleaner trade.The concern is that the next wave of mega-IPOs could drain cash from the trades that have already run. Vanda framed the likely path as retail "rebalancing into SpaceX" rather than deploying fresh capital — a dynamic that could matter if investors rotate out of AI winners or space-linked proxy trades that had served as placeholders before the IPO.SpaceX (SPCX), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) are expected to test public market demand while large tech companies are raising equity to fund the AI build-out. Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) already showed how expensive that build-out has become with its planned $80 billion stock sale.But the size of the supply wave depends on how you measure it.Alfonso Peccatiello, founder and CEO of the Macro Compass and founder of Palinuro Capital, recently highlighted a Goldman Sachs chart that puts the IPO rush in market context. Instead of just showing the raw dollar amount of stock being sold, the chart compares new equity issuance — stock sold through IPOs, follow-on offerings, and other share sales — with the total value of the Russell 3000 (^RUA), a broad gauge of the US stock market.Annual US equity issuance as a share of Russell 3000 market cap · Goldman SachsThat matters because a huge dollar amount of new stock can look less threatening when scaled against the whole market. The Goldman Sachs chart asks the more important question: How big is the supply compared with the market that's expected to absorb it?Terms and Privacy PolicyPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore Info