A new SEC filing puts Elon Musk’s SpaceX holding at 48.4%, or roughly 6.42 billion shares worth more than $900 billion.
The same stake carries over 82% of the company’s votes. That gap between ownership and control now decides everything SpaceX does, including what happens to its Bitcoin.
How Much of SpaceX Does Elon Musk Own?
Musk reported sole voting and dispositive power over all 6,418,547,515 shares. The count reflects his position as of June 30.
Four buckets make up the total. Trusts where Musk serves as trustee hold 849.5 million Class A shares and 3.92 billion Class B shares. He directly holds 1.30 billion restricted Class B shares. Options on 350 million more Class B shares complete the figure.
However, Musk says the 48.4% headline flatters his real position.
Vesting conditions include multitrillion-dollar valuations, orbital data centers, and a Mars settlement of one million people. Therefore his fully vested slice sits below the reported number.
Why The Voting Structure Matters for Its Bitcoin
The company runs two share classes. Class A carries one vote, while Class B carries 10. Musk commands the boardroom with less than half the equity, and no sunset clause unwinds that arrangement.
Class B stock converts to Class A the moment an insider sells to an outsider. That switch strips 90% of the voting weight.
Governance investors objected before the listing. The Council of Institutional Investors, which represents pension funds and asset managers, asked Musk in June for a single share class. SpaceX went public anyway.
That control also covers 18,712 BTC. SpaceX has held the Bitcoin since 2021 and has never sold any of it. Bitcoin (BTC) trades near $63,666, valuing the stash around $1.19 billion.
Public shareholders cannot vote the position away. They can only watch it swing, as it did in the company’s first quarterly results, where digital assets landed at $1.098 billion.
The share price tells a similar story. SpaceX raised $85.7 billion in its June IPO and cleared a $2 trillion market cap on day one. It then dropped nearly 33% through July.
August reversed that. The stock has climbed 30% this month on a 90% revenue jump and the first lockup expiry, reclaiming its IPO price along the way.
Institutions kept buying through the slump. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund disclosed a $1.2 billion position this week, and traders rewarded the Grok AI unit despite its $1.26 billion quarterly loss.
Meanwhile, Peter Schiff reads the same rally as a crash warning for stocks and crypto.
More lockup tranches expire in the coming months. Each one frees up Class A supply, yet none of it loosens Musk’s grip on the vote. Investors get a Bitcoin treasury they cannot touch.
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