Anthropic IPO Update | Anthropic Sets IPO Range at $70–$78, Targeting Up to $1.4 Trillion Fully Diluted as Annualized Revenue Hits $81 Billion
Anthropic has set the price range for its initial public offering at $70 to $78 a share and plans to sell 825 million Class A shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The company is targeting a valuation of about $1 trillion, or up to $1.4 trillion on a fully diluted basis, which counts all options and convertible securities.Anthropic expects to price the offering on Wednesday, November 18, and begin trading on Thursday, November 19, according to its statements.Annualized Revenue Jumps $10 Billion in OctoberAnthropic said its annualized revenue reached about $81 billion as of October 31, up $10 billion from September 30, a 14% increase in one month (calculated).Investors had been waiting for the October figure, which was left blank in the company’s earlier filing, to see whether growth had picked up again after slowing in the third quarter. Revenue for the first nine months of 2026 was $33.24 billion.$64 Billion IPO Plus a $26 Billion Private PlacementAt the top of the range, the 825 million new shares would raise about $64.35 billion, or $57.75 billion at the bottom (calculated). Existing shareholders will also sell 23,648,646 shares, worth about $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion.Alongside the IPO, Anthropic will sell $26 billion of shares in a private placement at the IPO price. The buyers are Alphabet’s Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC. That brings the total raised to about $90.4 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.On its own, the IPO would rank behind SpaceX’s $75 billion listing in June, unless the deal is increased.Valuation Comes in Below Earlier HopesThe range values Anthropic below the $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion that bankers and investors discussed in recent weeks. At the top of the range, the fully diluted valuation of about $1.4 trillion is roughly 45% above the $965 billion valuation from Anthropic’s May private funding round.Based on October annualized revenue, a $1 trillion valuation is about 12 times revenue, and $1.4 trillion is about 17 times (calculated).The terms follow last week’s selloff in AI stocks, when potential investors told Reuters they wanted a more attractive valuation and doubted a November listing.Pricing Expected November 18Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead a group of 22 underwriters. The roadshow, the series of meetings where bankers take orders from investors, runs this week ahead of the expected pricing on November 18.
