Massive IPO Rule Changes for Retail Investors

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Some of the biggest IPOs in history are about to hit the stock market this year from companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. And many retail investors are unaware that they've changed the rules this time. This ain't your grandma's IPO. They've changed the rules on how much money is going to be flowing into these IPOs from passive index funds, which means many retail investors may be left holding a bag they didn't even know they bought to begin with. So, I'm going to show you what the risks are and what things you definitely want to avoid if you don't want to get screwed by these upcoming IPOs. So, first let's take a look at a few charts. The source for these is Bloomberg to show the monster size of these IPOs. So far to date, the largest IPO has been from Saudi Aramco, which raised $38 billion when it IPO'd.

[00:00:51]Now, that is in today's dollars, it was $29 billion at the time. And at the time, that meant that its market cap was valued at $2.4 trillion.