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The shares of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX have been witnessing a decline in recent times. After a strong start and rise in the stock market last week, there has now been continuous pressure in it.

Business News: There has been a sudden huge fall in the shares of Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX after a strong start in the US stock market. The company’s shares fell by about 18 percent in the last two trading sessions, causing huge losses to investors. Due to this sharp decline, the market cap of the company has decreased by approximately $ 0.50 trillion (about Rs 47 lakh crore).

Initially, SpaceX shares had shown historic momentum on Wall Street and the company’s valuation had reached above $2 trillion, but now the momentum has come to a halt and selling pressure has increased in the market.

18% decline in two days, huge loss to investors

According to reports, SpaceX shares fell by about 5% on June 17. After this, on June 18, the stock fell by about 3.5% and closed at the level of $185. This decline in intraday trading had reached more than 6%. Although the American markets remained closed on June 19 due to Juneteenth, the company’s shares had registered a loss of about 18% in the two trading sessions before that. This decline had a direct impact on the valuation of the company, due to which investors lost billions of dollars.

Market cap decline of 50 thousand crore dollars

On June 16, SpaceX shares reached a high of $225.64, and at that time the company’s market cap was approximately $2.94 trillion. But by the close of the market on Thursday, it came down to $2.44 trillion. This means that in just two days there was a huge decline of about $ 0.50 trillion (about $ 50,000 crore) in the company’s market cap. This loss in Indian currency is equivalent to approximately Rs 47 lakh crore.

According to analysts, this fall in SpaceX shares is the result of profit booking after a sharp rally. Last week, the company had made a spectacular entry in the American stock market and its valuation had increased rapidly. IPO experts believe that after the initial enthusiasm, investors started reconsidering the actual valuation of the company, which increased selling pressure.

According to IPOX Schuster analyst Kat Liu, “This kind of volatility is normal after one of the largest IPOs in history, especially when initial excitement is high.”

AI investment and high valuation raise concerns

Experts say SpaceX’s increasing investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies has also influenced market sentiment. In view of rising expenses and uncertain future earnings, some investors have started reducing their stake to reduce risk. Due to high valuation and limited public float, sharp fluctuations in the stock were already expected.

According to Vanda Research data, retail investors had made heavy purchases in the initial days. In the last three sessions he had bought shares worth more than $300 million on a net basis. But this trend changed rapidly as the market fell and by Thursday afternoon this net purchase dropped to only $9.1 million.