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SpaceX to Join Nasdaq-100 as Elon Musk Company Becomes Early Beneficiary of Fast-Track Framework

6/27/2026

SpaceX, the Elon Musk company, is set to join the Nasdaq-100, becoming one of the first firms to gain entry through a fast-track inclusion framework that Nasdaq recently adopted.

The move illustrates how the exchange's revised admission architecture can reshape one of the world's most closely tracked indexes with markedly greater speed than conventional procedures have historically allowed.

A Structural Shift in How Nasdaq Builds Its Index The fast-track mechanism represents a deliberate change to Nasdaq's index methodology rather than a one-off exception.

Under the approach Nasdaq had previously used, additions to the Nasdaq-100 followed established review cycles on a fixed schedule.