Anthropic
IPO brief

From registration to the first trade

1. 01 Jun 2026
   Confidential draft S-1. EDGAR subsequently published the initial draft and four revisions dated July 13, August 10, September 4, and October 1, plus an October 9 revision. 1012
2. 26 Oct 2026
   Public S-1. Disclosed the proposed listing, capital structure, and financial results through June. 04
3. 02 Nov 2026
   S-1/A No. 1. Added September financials, quantified infrastructure commitments, identified planned retail platforms, and added a disclosure about AI accelerating AI research. 06
4. 10 Nov 2026
   S-1/A No. 2 and roadshow launch. Filed $70–$78, 825M shares and the $26B private placement. The company announced that the roadshow had begun. Company confirmed 0607
5. 18 Nov · Wed
   Expected pricing. The company’s IPO timetable uses this date, subject to clearance. The final prospectus will establish the final terms. Company timetable 75
6. 19 Nov · Thu
   Expected first trade. The company expects Nasdaq trading to begin this day. The opening auction determines the first market trade. The preliminary prospectus leaves the delivery date open. Company timetable 7506

Roadshow takeaways · the company’s public pitch

The public presentation covers the product, enterprise strategy, frontier research, compute and financial model. The company’s materials show $17B Q3 revenue and a $23.3B net loss, including a $21.9B non-cash financing-instrument revaluation charge. Investor questions: can customer expansion and serving efficiency persist as capacity and competition grow? View the public roadshow. 7506

Still unknown: The public materials reviewed do not disclose live investor orders, an allocation book, or a full record of private roadshow Q&A. The figures above are company representations; a strong presentation does not establish aftermarket demand.

One global offer, different application windows

The prospectus describes a coordinated global distribution into Australia, Canada, selected EEA markets, Japan, Switzerland and the UK. Those channels feed the same IPO, final offer price and Nasdaq listing. Local deadlines, currencies and settlement procedures differ. A withdrawn local tranche can be reallocated to the remaining jurisdictions. 06

This timetable follows the published offering documents. Dates are indicative, use the stated local time zones and can change. Individual broker cutoffs may be earlier. 7879

Bookrunners, syndicate and allocation

Explore other IPOs in the standalone Portfolio ThinkTank IPO Demand Explorer. This brief keeps the Anthropic case. Calculator edited November 13; source facts retain their dated snapshots.

Interactive distribution map

Where supply meets demand

Follow supply from the left and potential buyers from the right. Switch the right-hand view to trace investment managers, account platforms, custodians and the underlying capital owners.

Filed disclosure Derived calculation Hypothetical input or route Undisclosed amount Brand reach · unquantified

Capital ownerHousehold, pension, insurer, sovereign→Manager / adviserFund mandate or direct decision→Broker / syndicateOrder, allocation and execution

Anthropic · Nov 10 S-1/A

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Scenario inputs and routing

The IPO demand curves apply our estimated buyer interest and price response to each distinct addressable buying pool, with a shared-budget discount. Custody assets and account-based estimates add no extra demand. Each channel’s route weights and Anthropic’s supply weights are separately normalized to 100%.

Distributor weights

The interval varies modeled demand and modeled capacity by the selected percentage. Each row is a separate sensitivity. The endpoints do not represent a single joint book and should not be summed across distributors. Historical commitments stay fixed.

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Supply Distributors Demand Institutions / accounts Swipe or tap to explore.

Best guess · estimated buyer demand

Supply & Demand and Price Imbalance

Edit a buying assumption and inspect its live price response.

IPO allocationAfter trading starts

IPO scenario price · $Conversion sensitivity · ±%Shared-budget discount · %

Buyer channel	Addressable buying pool · $B	Estimated buyer interest at this price	Demand · M shares

Starting demand:CautiousBaseStrong

Edit buying pools, interest estimates and supply

Buying pool = dollars represented by plausible positions across this channel before awareness, decision and execution haircuts. Choose a distinct pool for this issue and phase, after excluding existing holdings. Our buyer-interest estimates and price curves convert that potential pool into modeled executable orders. These estimates are weighted by potential buying dollars; average intended ticket sizes are already represented by the pool. The shared-budget discount removes overlapping dollars once. AUM, custody assets and client cash references supply no automatic buying pool.

Price axis · low $Price axis · high $Window · trading sessionsBase offered · M sharesOption size · M shares Include the option as a supply scenarioAvailable float assumption · M shares

The four curved channels represent discretionary buying; the separate index target is excluded from their pools. Base pool seeds total 5× reference gross IPO value for the IPO phase and 20% for the aftermarket, split 50% / 20% / 15% / 15%. These sizing seeds remain unverified and editable.

Awareness to executable buying

Each estimated rate is conditional on clearing the prior stage, weighted by potential position dollars. The “want to” estimate uses the most attractive modeled price; the price curve applies the remaining price sensitivity. Conditional rates can reflect correlated decisions. Leave unknown stages blank.

Use these six estimated conditional rates for this channel

The model uses the lower of your any-price demand estimate and the estimated six-stage product as its upper endpoint. Estimated demand at a specific price = right-terminal estimate + (upper endpoint − right-terminal estimate) × relative price response. The right-terminal estimate must stay at or below the upper endpoint.

Selected curve points

Prices rise across each curve. Buyer-demand percentages stay level or fall between the two endpoint estimates. Linear uses the first and last anchor prices; changing the viewed price axis preserves those anchors. Editing an interior point selects Custom anchors. Editing a buyer endpoint updates its demand estimate. Estimated aftermarket selling interest stays level or rises.

Anchor	Price · $	Estimated buy / sell interest · %

Aftermarket supply = assumed available float × holders’ selling-interest curve. This describes willingness to transfer holdings within the chosen window. Changing the window requires reviewing the participation and selling assumptions; it does not multiply demand automatically.

Index floor · target, existing holdings and assumptions

Include the index exposure target

Target holding · M sharesAlready held · M shares

Assume eligibility and inclusion timing are met Discretionary pools exclude this index pool

Incremental index demand = target less existing holdings, floored at zero. Anthropic and SPCX start with one conditional NDX reference: $623B of tracker assets × an assumed 1% weight ÷ the reference price. The asset proxy is dated 2025, includes an estimated managed-account component, and comes from the brief’s index-asset analysis. The weight, incremental purchases and zero initial holdings are best guesses. Other index families are excluded to avoid overlapping pools. 111

The default aftermarket scenario assumes inclusion within its window; change this if the timing fails. The default IPO phase excludes index demand and shows its conditional target as a preview. Holding target shares fixed is a local price-range approximation; actual free-float weights, caps, assets, sampling and existing exposure can change the purchases. Eligibility and actual index orders remain unknown.

Index funds · all hail the benchmark

A price-insensitive share target after assumed inclusion. Trackers follow the mandate as price changes. Their dollar purchase cost rises with price.

Before inclusionAfter assumed inclusion

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How the demand assumptions work

Estimate each channel’s buyer demand before price sensitivity, its price-insensitive right terminal, and the function between them. The two demand inputs are percentages of potential buying dollars within the selected phase or window. Share demand is calculated from those dollars at each price. An IPO allocation and completed purchase still depend on available supply.

Aware→Want to→Intend to→Plan to→Can→Will

Three assumptions for each buyer channel. Linear is the starting demand function. It connects the any-price estimate at the left anchor to the price-insensitive estimate at the right anchor. The right-terminal percentage holds beyond that anchor; share demand continues to vary as buying dollars are divided by price. The starting terminal estimate is 0%. Every input is an editable estimate.

Reading the model. Modeled demand shares = addressable buying dollars × estimated buyer interest at this price × (1 − overlap discount) ÷ price. Imbalance = demand shares − supply shares. Coverage = demand ÷ supply. Sensitivity varies interest estimates within each channel’s interest assumption; conditional index targets stay fixed. A crossing is conditional on these inputs and the price range. The bands carry no statistical confidence level. Actual orders, buyer interest, dollar-pool sizes and seller willingness remain unknown.

The IPO curves update discretionary buyer-channel demand in the base-offering Sankey above. Aftermarket assumptions have their own state and time window. The map excludes the option and conditional index target.

Editing base supply scales the worksheet’s primary/secondary split proportionally. Edit that split in the worksheet when using a different assumption.

Demand beyond the initial allocation. Managers and account platforms show potential reach into funds, managed accounts and brokerage clients. Unfilled IPO interest and new buyers may enter after trading begins. Custody links identify servicing relationships. Dashed links have no measured dollar or share amount and add no extra demand to the scenario totals. ANT buyer assignments and follow-through remain unknown. 0615119

Best guess · editable assumptions

Potential buying after trading starts

First 20 trading sessions · selected brokerage/customer pools. This separate account-based scenario estimates fresh purchase intent after eligibility, duplication and prior-IPO-interest adjustments. Institutional manager and custody assets are excluded from this range. Client assets provide scale; no asset-allocation estimate is added.

Potential purchases · best guess—USD over the full 20-session window

Equivalent shares—Derived at the assumed market price

Overlap-adjusted pool proxy—Assumed decision units; unique people unknown

Assumed market price—Independent of the IPO pricing worksheet

Edit the best guess and inspect client scale

All percentages below are editorial assumptions. The defaults use 0.5%–2% participation, $2,500–$7,500 per participating decision unit, a 25%–50% cross-platform duplicate discount and 50%–75% incremental interest. The final factor removes assumed overlap with already satisfied or previously modeled IPO interest. Participation applies once over 20 sessions.

Per-brand eligibility reduces source counts for account duplication within the brand, funding, ability to buy individual stocks, geography and mandate restrictions. Customers, households and accounts retain their disclosed definitions. Those conversions are best guesses. Fund managers and custodians are outside this selected account model.

Brand / date	Disclosed client assets	Disclosed count / scope	Model scope and eligible share	Potential purchases · best guess

Calculation. Source count × assumed eligible share × (1 − cross-platform duplicate discount) × participation × average purchase × incremental-interest share. Lower demand uses the higher duplicate discount and the other low assumptions; upper demand uses the lower discount and the other high assumptions.

Reset aftermarket assumptions

Counting rules. Vanguard’s intermediary-held fund investors are excluded. Morgan Stanley contributes only its self-directed channel; BofA contributes only consumer investment accounts. Robinhood uses funded customers once; Schwab already includes TD Ameritrade. Assets, cash balances and separate account/customer counts are never summed into this demand calculation. The adjustment reduces assumed overlap; actual cross-platform identities remain unknown.

Independent account-based cross-check. This range is excluded from the demand-curve totals. Do not add this range to the IPO order model, unmet demand, or index-linked exposure targets. It covers potential discretionary buying, with no prediction of net inflows, opening price or sustained price support. Buyer interest, available float and offsetting sellers remain unobserved.

BNY, State Street and Northern Trust · who decides and who holds the assets?

The decision path above can lead to a fund or brokerage account whose securities are held at a custodian. Custody, clearing, collateral and settlement support the trade. The owner or delegated manager supplies investment authority. These are role examples; no specific ANT manager-to-custodian relationship is asserted.

Group · Sep 30, 2026	Custody / administration assets	Management assets	Investor implication
BNY	$63.4T AUC/A	$2.2T AUM	Investment management and Pershing/servicing have separate functions. 135143
State Street	$59.2T AUC/A	$6.3T AUM*	Investment Management / SPDR mandates sit alongside the servicing business. 136
Northern Trust	$19.9T AUC/A	$2.0T AUM	Asset and wealth management coexist with institutional custody. 137

AUC/A means assets under custody and/or administration; AUM means assets under management. The figures overlap within and across firms and can include non-equity assets. They are never added together or converted into the aftermarket-demand estimate. *State Street AUM includes about $172B for which an affiliate acts solely as marketing agent. Actual ANT orders and allocations remain unknown.

Distributor table and underwriting commitments

Capital structure and share classes

Authorized shares are a legal ceiling. Issued shares include outstanding shares and any treasury shares. Outstanding shares exclude treasury shares. Fully diluted counts additionally reflect specified securities and assumptions. Capitalization figures are context for the offering.

See Anthropic's proposed post-IPO charter and Class N conversion terms.

Concurrent Class N placement. Google and NVIDIA commit $10B each, AMD $2.5B, Broadcom, Micron and Microsoft $1B each, and TSMC $0.5B. This $26B financing converts to about 351.4M restricted Class N shares at $74. It closes conditionally after the IPO and sits outside the public syndicate flow above. 06

Price-insensitive demand · index mandates

Capitalization-weighted funds seek to match an index. Once ANT is admitted, trackers generally need exposure at the index’s investable weight, even if their managers regard the stock as expensive. Eligibility, free float, voting rules and the effective inclusion date determine the order. The term “price-insensitive” describes the mandate; a purchase amount or date is conditional. 161821

Passive buyers and index-linked assets

Asset pools below are dated reference points, rather than November 2026 flow forecasts. P · provider estimate D · derived A · illustrative assumption A mutual-fund / managed-account split is estimated only where the provider does not publish it.

Still unknown: The unpublished mutual-fund / SMA splits and any distinct active NDX benchmark pool are not established by these sources. The figures are mixed-date estimates. Broader benchmarked assets do not create mandatory IPO purchases.

When do funds become buyers? A physical replicator typically needs exposure when membership takes effect. Sampling, derivatives, creations in kind, and trading ahead of the rebalance affect how much hits the public market and when. No current IPO allocation follows automatically from index eligibility. 161824

Discretionary demand · conviction and access

Explore valuation, IPO scale and market-flow comparisons in the Comparisons chapter.

Dated market references

What does a $61B public offering look like?

Compare the $61.1B base public sale at $74 with familiar balances and flows. It includes primary and secondary shares. Issuer gross funding is $85.3B after the separate $26B private placement; the public-market comparisons below use the $61.1B sale. 06

Reference / period	Observed scale	ANT relative size	Meaning and limit
Money market fund assets Balance · Nov 4, 2026	$8.0T total $3.1T retail subset	0.76% of total ~2.0% of retail assets	Investor cash-like savings span operating, liquidity and investment needs. Availability for ANT is unknown. Retail is already inside the total. 130
U.S. equity daily trading Turnover · Oct 2026 average	17.3B shares / day	825M offered ≈ 4.8% of one day’s share count	Count-only comparison across securities with different prices. Repeated trading measures activity; it does not measure fresh buying cash. 133
NVIDIA daily dollar turnover Dated proxy · Nov 5 snapshot	~$19.5B / day	~3.1× that daily dollar turnover	The existing volume × price reference supplies dollar context. It cannot predict ANT turnover or price impact. 2928
Average weekly Treasury auction volume Gross issuance · Aug 1–Oct 31, 2026	$79.1B / week Nominal coupons / FRNs	~77% of average weekly volume	Weekly average of the August–October nominal coupon / floating-rate auction sample. Bills and TIPS are excluded. 132
Large scheduled Treasury sale Gross issuance · Nov 2026	$70B 5-year note auction	~87% of this one auction	Risk, maturity, dealer intermediation and the buyer base differ from equity issuance. 132
November Treasury refunding Three auctions · Nov 9–12	$125B gross ~$28B net new cash	~49% of gross	Most issuance refinances maturing debt. Gross auction volume and net funding have different meanings. 132
ETF net issuance Net flow estimate · week to Nov 4	+$49.8B long-term ETFs	~1.2× one week’s net issuance	Includes multiple asset classes and possible in-kind creations. This is a flow reference, with no assumed ANT earmark. 131
Long-term mutual fund flows Net flow estimate · same week	−$32.7B net outflows	No positive inflow to compare against	Portfolio reallocations can still finance purchases during net outflows. This component is already included in the combined figure below. 131
Combined mutual funds + ETFs Net flow estimate · same week	+$17.2B	~3.6× one week’s combined net inflow	ETF issuance plus mutual fund flows. Do not add the combined figure to its two components or extrapolate this week into a monthly forecast. 131

Cash examples and calculation notes

Selected broker cash references. Schwab reported client cash at 8.9% of $13.3T assets on September 30, implying ~$1.2T. IBKR reported $180.5B of client credit balances, including bank sweeps, at October 31. Robinhood reported $49.1B of customer cash at September 30. The public sale equals about 5.1%, 33.8% and 1.2× these respective references. Cash can back obligations, other holdings or operational needs. 122123124

Reproducible arithmetic. Public sale = 825M × $74 = $61.05B. Treasury weekly sample: ($352B + $343B + $345B) × 7 ÷ 92 calendar days (Aug 1–Oct 31, 2026) = $79.1B per week; $61.05B ÷ $79.13B = 77.2%. The $70B reference is a large scheduled coupon sale, rather than a maximum across all Treasury security types. Fund-flow components reconcile as $49.83B − $32.67B = $17.16B. Source rounding is retained internally. 06132131

Use for scale. Balances, turnover, gross issuance and net flows answer different questions. Money funds, broker assets, broker cash and fund flows overlap. None of these references is added to the account-based demand estimate or treated as a pool committed to ANT.

Four IPO scale comparisons

IPO	First trade	Base public sale	Market cap at IPO	First year price IPO offer = 100	Why compare it?
SpaceXSPCX	Jun 12, 2026	$75.0B	$1.77TBasic post-offer shares Share basis Basic post-base-offering common shares: 7,380,196,910 Class A plus 5,695,668,265 Class B, valued at $135. Excludes the additional-share option and unissued options/awards.	+3.7%Partial year Through Nov 12, 2026Price history	Recent mega IPO. The exercised option later took gross proceeds to $86.3B. 10349 IPO date and value sources SpaceX final IPO prospectus, June 11, 2026 — The Offering and Dilution · SpaceX IPO pricing announcement, June 11, 2026 · SpaceX IPO closing announcement, June 15, 2026 — confirms June 12 trading debut
Saudi Aramco2222	Dec 11, 2019	$25.6B	$1.71TBasic post-offer shares Share basis 200 billion basic ordinary shares × SAR32 = SAR6.4 trillion, converted at SAR3.75 per US dollar. The IPO sold existing government shares.	+10.9%First year Through Dec 10, 2020Price history	Earlier mega IPO. The selling government received the proceeds. 104 IPO date and value sources Saudi Aramco begins trading on Tadawul, December 11, 2019 · Saudi Aramco 2019 annual report — 200 billion ordinary shares
AlibabaBABA	Sep 19, 2014	$21.8B	$167.6BBasic post-offer shares Share basis 2,465,005,966 post-base-offering basic ordinary shares × $68 per ADS, with one ordinary share per ADS at the IPO. Excludes additional issuer shares under the option and unissued options/RSUs.	-3.3%First year Through Sep 18, 2015Price history	A large international technology distribution into U.S. markets. 105 IPO date and value sources Alibaba IPO pricing announcement, September 18, 2014 · Alibaba final IPO prospectus, September 18, 2014 — The Offering · Alibaba interim financial statements — IPO completed September 19, 2014
ArmARM	Sep 14, 2023	$4.9B	$52.3BBasic post-offer shares Share basis 1,026,054,856 post-offering basic ordinary shares × $51 per ADS, with one ordinary share per ADS. Includes 820,856 shares issuable at completion; excludes 41,779,288 additional listed award shares.	+189.0%First year Through Sep 13, 2024Price history	Technology scarcity and cornerstone indications; entirely a selling-holder offer. 73 IPO date and value sources Arm final IPO prospectus, September 13, 2023 — The Offering, pages 16–17 · Arm IPO pricing announcement — $51 per ADS · Arm IPO closing announcement, September 18, 2023 — confirms September 14 trading debut

Reading the sparklines. All four use the same one-year time axis and the same indexed vertical scale (75–375; IPO offer = 100). Daily closes are divided by the offer price; the percentage is the last observed close’s change from the offer. SpaceX has a partial year through November 12, 2026; its remaining time is blank. First-year charts end at the last trading close on or before the anniversary. These are share-price changes excluding cash dividends. Aramco’s later bonus-share adjustments are reversed to restore the original 2019–2020 quoted prices. Base public sales exclude options; market caps use basic post-offer shares, with each share basis stated in its cell. U.S. dollar values for Aramco use SAR 3.75 per dollar.

ANT at $74: the $61.1B base public offer is about 81% of SpaceX’s, 2.4× Aramco’s, 2.8× Alibaba’s and 12.5× Arm’s. Base-sale comparisons exclude overallotment options and private placements. Neither a trillion-dollar company valuation nor a public share sale of this scale means $1T is being raised. Aramco and SpaceX both had IPO equity valuations above $1T before Anthropic’s proposed debut. 064910310410573

Scale check. The $61.1B midpoint public deal is roughly 3.1 times NVIDIA’s ~$19.5B daily turnover proxy from the November 5 snapshot. SpaceX sold roughly $86.3B gross at its IPO including the exercised option. Anthropic’s private Class N placement adds company funding alongside the public sale. 06292849

Public market scale and multiples

Company / scenario	Equity value	TTM revenue	Equity value / sales
NVIDIA	$4.03T	$303.0B	13.3×
Alphabet	$3.69T	$471.1B	7.8×
SpaceX · includes xAI	$1.95T	$32.0B	61.0×
Meta	$1.61T	$241.6B	6.7×
ANT · $74 midpoint / diluted	$1.33T	$35.3B	37.8×

Equity values use a November 12 snapshot around 11:18 a.m. ET. Revenue is the latest available TTM, ending in July for NVIDIA and September for the others. SpaceX includes xAI and Cursor; its equity value is approximated from the $143.89 quote and 13.6B reported shares, and TTM revenue is derived from its filings. ANT uses the $74 midpoint and diluted bridge. 28666768697071899006

At the $74 midpoint, diluted equity value is 37.8× TTM sales, 19.7× Q3 revenue annualized, and 16.5× October’s run-rate metric. The three denominators measure different periods and assumptions. Across the indicative price band, TTM equity-value-to-sales is about 35.7×–39.8× on the fixed midpoint diluted bridge. 06

At $1.26T–$1.41T, the diluted value equals about 1.7%–1.9% of the Russell 3000’s $75.6T aggregate market cap at the April 2026 rank date. Actual index weights use investable shares and index-specific rules. 2018

Interim figures are unaudited. *Q3 cash flow is 9M less H1. Adjusted operating income is company-defined. At conversion, affected notes can stop generating fair-value changes. The timing and treatment of remaining instruments can differ. The GAAP net loss and operating cash flow describe different parts of the business. 0405

Customers, usage and retention

Anthropic reports these measures as of September 30. NRR compares the same eligible cohort’s quarterly revenue with its revenue a year earlier, excluding Pro and Max subscribers. Remaining performance obligations rose from $10.8B in June to $13.8B in September, with roughly 75% expected to be recognized over the next 12 months. More than half of the Fortune 500 were customers at the company’s $100K annual revenue threshold. A total active-user series is unavailable in the filing. 0405

The AI long tail · top-line growth

Compound growth factors

Scenario model

AI’s top-line opportunity compounds through more customers × more work per customer. Adoption expands the customer base. Reasoning, coding, images, video and agents expand usage within each account. The curves below show how those growth factors multiply into a larger volume of AI work. Market share and realized pricing determine how that workload translates into Anthropic’s revenue.

Adoption index×Useful work / user=Compound AI workload

Definitions: work per user is measured in constant-2023 task equivalents. Its historical and future values are best guesses. Adoption uses dated ChatGPT milestones as a market proxy. The compound workload curve multiplies those two factors; a company revenue forecast also requires paid conversion, market share and pricing.

Compound growth curves

2023 = 100 · milestone snapshots through 2026; scenarios to 2033

Scale

Log10

ConservativeBaseAggressiveBest guesses · adoption and workload per user

Inspect year

2033

Customer growth × usage per customer = top-line growth

All growth factors cover 2026 → 2033. Paid conversion, market share and revenue per unit of usage are held constant, so the two factors multiply into implied revenue growth.

Seven-year growth multiples · annualized rates shown below

Scenario	Customer growthMarket proxy	× Usage per customer	= Implied top-line growth

Customer growth uses the ChatGPT weekly-user adoption proxy. Usage growth divides the 2033 usage assumption by the 2026 assumption. These are scenarios for the market revenue opportunity; an Anthropic revenue forecast also needs company-specific customer, share and pricing assumptions. Totals use unrounded factors.

Edit customer growth and usage assumptions

These inputs set the two growth factors for 2026 → 2033. Usage per customer is indexed to 2023. The table converts it into growth from the selected 2026 baseline.

2033 customer proxy · billions 2033 usage per customer · × 2023 2026 usage per customer · × 2023

Capacity and efficiency assumptions

2033 data-center electricity · TWh Installed compute proxy · annual growth % AI-serving share of electricity · end / start Hardware / electrical efficiency gain · × Model / algorithmic efficiency gain · ×

Required work / kWh = D ÷ P_AIP_AI = total data-center electricity growth × change in the AI-serving share

P assumes electricity can be delivered and used in the right places. Holding the AI-serving share constant makes P equal total data-center electricity growth. A rising share eases the efficiency requirement. That share includes allocation between conventional workloads, AI training and AI serving; it remains unknown. The IEA electricity outlook is a conditional consumption forecast, with no guarantee that connections or power arrive. The chart does not multiply installed compute by electricity, which would count hardware expansion twice.

Evidence, interpolation and the limits of this estimate

Component	Public evidence	Model treatment
Adoption	ChatGPT: ~100M weekly users (Nov 2023), >250M (Oct 2024), >700M (Jul 2025), 1.2B (Sep 2026). 144145146	Rounded milestone anchors, placed in annual bins. They are snapshots with differing dates and scope, rather than annual averages or deduplicated people. Future user equivalents extrapolate this proxy. Other providers are never added.
Depth	OpenAI: +30% messages per enterprise worker in 2025; recent consumer cohorts sent 50% more messages after six months. Anthropic’s research system used ~4× chat tokens for agents and ~15× for multi-agent work. 147148149	Different cohorts, time windows and tasks. These demonstrate mechanisms; none establishes global useful work per user. Assumed intensity: 1× / 1.35× / 2× / 3× in 2023–26, then 15× / 60× / 180× in the three 2033 cases.
Installed compute	Epoch AI estimates deliveries and peak dense 8-bit compute in H100 equivalents. 151	NVIDIA 2022+ covered vintages only; exclude incomplete quarters; assume 90 days from quarter-end delivery to installation and five-year service life. Estimated stock: ~0.94M / 3.5M / 10.7M / 21.0M H100e at end-2023/24/25 and Sep 2026. Network, memory, utilization, other chips and older vintages limit comparability. Future growth defaults to 50% yearly; this is separate from an efficiency forecast.
Electricity	IEA: ~415 TWh in 2024, 485 TWh in 2025 and 950 TWh forecast for 2030. AI-focused electricity is projected to triple over 2025–30. 152153	All-data-center scope is broader than AI. Backcast 2023 at ~371 TWh using assumed 12% growth; geometrically interpolate 2025–30; 2033 defaults to 1,200 TWh. AI power share and deliverable serving capacity remain unknown.

Revenue sensitivities. Adoption, paid conversion, workload per customer, market share and realized prices determine how compound workload growth becomes revenue. The model uses an adoption proxy and assumed work per user; those inputs retain their own evidence limits.

Growth in the customer base

More people, teams and organizations adopting AI expand the potential customer base. The chart uses dated ChatGPT milestones as a market adoption proxy. Anthropic’s disclosed customer cohorts supply company-level evidence. 14414514606

Growth within each customer

Coding, reasoning, multimodal tasks and agentic workflows expand the work done within an account. One objective can trigger many model calls, tool uses and hours of execution. More paid work per customer can increase revenue per account as the customer base grows. 147149

Anthropic’s top-line growth. Revenue compounds through customers × paid workload per customer × realized revenue per unit of work. Customer growth and deeper usage can reinforce each other over time. Anthropic’s market share determines how much of the expanding AI workload it captures. The curves show the market-level growth factors; a company revenue projection also needs paid-conversion, share and pricing assumptions.

Who can change the mission?

The mission is in the charter. Under the filed post-IPO charter and Delaware’s ordinary amendment process, an Article III change generally starts with board approval and then goes to the stockholders entitled to vote, subject to any applicable class or transaction approvals. Article XI lists special voting rules for specified charter sections and leaves Article III outside that list. Inference from those provisions: the trust can influence the board decision through its directors, and Class F can dominate the ordinary stockholder vote. A change to the trust or its Class T powers is a separate question. 1131

Share classes, authorization and issuance

Authorization is the charter ceiling. September share counts precede the October fund issuance and IPO conversions. The November 10 pro forma bridge now supplies legal A and N outstanding totals and an expanded diluted basis at the $74 midpoint. 0611

Environmental, social and governance considerations

Explore the share-supply timeline alongside the IPO pricing and demand models.

Summary of the prospectus and underwriting sections. Earnings release definitions, exceptions, and underwriter waivers can affect timing. 06

Who has an economic stake?

What about SoftBank? It is a Japanese listed investment group. Its announced 2026 $30B follow-on investment concerns OpenAI. SoftBank is absent from Anthropic’s named concurrent-placement buyers; an Anthropic investment or public-IPO allocation was not verified in the reviewed sources. 11506

Investor	Disclosed position / commitment	Estimated economic share	Value or new funding
Amazon / AWS	About 1.9B Class N after closing, plus about 1.6B N equivalents from rollover notes.	14.7% on the basic midpoint basis. Rollover shares enter broader dilution.	About $134B–$150B for the initial N holding at $70–$78.
Alphabet / Google	About 1.8B N after the $10B private purchase at $74.	13.7% on the basic midpoint basis.	About $125B–$140B at $70–$78, holding midpoint shares fixed.
NVIDIA	$10B concurrent purchase	About 1.0%–1.1% incremental	$10B new funding
AMD	$2.5B concurrent purchase	About 0.25%–0.27% incremental	$2.5B new funding
Broadcom	$1B concurrent purchase; infrastructure and financing arrangements separately disclosed.	About 0.10%–0.11% incremental	$1B new funding
Microsoft	$1B concurrent purchase; Azure hosting is a separate commercial relationship.	About 0.10%–0.11% incremental	$1B new funding
Micron	$1B concurrent purchase	About 0.10%–0.11% incremental	$1B new funding
TSMC	$0.5B concurrent purchase	About 0.05% incremental	$0.5B new funding
Spark Capital	The related-party tables disclose about $777M invested across six rounds from Series C through H, including $440M in H.	Total current shareholding is undisclosed. Historical purchases can be affected by transfers and later financing.	$777M of disclosed purchases; reported stake value below.

Amazon and Google counts are from the ownership-risk disclosure, rather than the voting-stockholder table. Basic economic percentages use about 13.1B A+N shares at $74. Incremental-placement ranges divide the fixed cash ticket by the $70–$78 price and a corresponding basic denominator, holding other conversions fixed. They measure only the new purchase. Existing holdings can add exposure. Voting rights follow the share class. 06

Venture and sovereign stakes · reported estimates

Reported · October 23 Bloomberg estimates, before the latest offering terms. 102

Bloomberg cites unnamed sources. Implied stakes use the $965B private valuation. Post-IPO share reconciliation remains unavailable; strategic holdings above use a separate, filed basic-share basis. 102

The categories overlap. The 12-month and 2030 windows sit inside the total. The conditional portion cuts across payment years. The filing separately estimates $150B–$175B of potential variable arrangements outside the aggregate, based on delivery and other conditions. 06

Partner	Compute or distribution	Financing / equity context
Amazon / AWS	At least $110B over May 2026–April 2036. Bedrock distribution and Trainium capacity.	$6.2B principal of Amazon notes outstanding Sep 30. Closing conversion into N is subject to an ownership cap, with some amounts potentially rolling over. 0536
Alphabet / Google	At least $121.3B under amended hosting terms. Additional TPU arrangements are estimated at $125B–$150B and excluded from the fixed aggregate.	Preferred/economic exposure plus a financing arrangement. Its 14.99% contractual ownership limit under the specified NPA measures as-converted economic capitalization. Class N generally carries no general vote. 06
SpaceXAI	Up to $120.5B through 2029 under the disclosed GPU arrangements, with cancellation rights after initial periods.	Compute supplier exposure. The contract ceiling measures a purchase commitment. 0537
NVIDIA / Microsoft	NVIDIA GPU ecosystem and Azure/Foundry distribution. Microsoft hosting commitments rise to at least $47.2B under February and November 2026 amendments.	The concurrent placement specifies $10B from NVIDIA and $1B from Microsoft. These new share purchases have their own conditions. 06
Other partners	Anthropic Direct separates accelerator procurement from dedicated data center capacity. AMD, Broadcom and other vendors support hardware, leases, and deployment.	AMD's initial tranche could exceed $20B if fully procured. Leases, financing and delivery terms determine cash timing. 06

Partner amounts have different scopes and often sit inside company totals. Adding every announced contract risks double counting. Convertible note carrying value and principal measure different things. 06

Data centers · ownership, rent and lock-in

The compound growth factors show how a growing customer base and deeper usage within each account can expand the revenue opportunity.

Anthropic uses a mix of cloud capacity, equipment leases and dedicated facilities operated by partners. Under Anthropic Direct, it separates the purchase or lease of accelerators from data-center space and power. This gives it more control of the hardware and deployment stack while counterparties build or operate much of the physical infrastructure. 06

Layer	What Anthropic buys	How binding is it?	When economics improve or deteriorate
Cloud hosting	AWS minimum $110B over 2026–36; Google at least $121.3B through 2033; Microsoft $47.2B–$49.2B through 2033.	Minimum-spend obligations generally survive low usage. AWS and Google have shortfall true-ups, subject to contract exceptions.	Reserved capacity can support growth. Underutilization leaves spend obligations against less revenue.
Accelerator equipment	Five-year Broadcom equipment leases with about $161.2B of rent excluding interest.	Non-cancelable during the term except specified default rights. Payment normally starts when hardware is ready for service and can begin earlier if facilities are delayed.	High utilization spreads fixed cost. Idle or outdated hardware, power delays and faster rival hardware can weaken returns.
Equipment and facility leases awaiting start	About $451.2B of undiscounted lease obligations, primarily compute and infrastructure, had yet to commence at September 30. This includes more than real estate.	Expected starts are 2026–28; terms range up to 20 years, averaging about ten. Counterparty delivery conditions vary.	Site control and predictable power can help at scale. Long terms expose Anthropic to demand and technology changes.
Flexible third-party compute	Shorter contracts and the SpaceXAI capacity arrangements, alongside Lambda, Nscale and other suppliers.	Some SpaceXAI commitments can be canceled after initial periods. Other supplier contracts limit cancellation to breach or missed delivery conditions.	Flexibility helps absorb bursts and bridge supply. Short-term capacity can cost more per unit.

The $451.2B total for leases awaiting commencement covers compute and infrastructure. Equipment can overlap broader infrastructure arrangements, so these rows should be read alongside the aggregate commitment totals. 06

Which valuation denominator?

The expanded bridge adds rollover notes, acquisitions and holdbacks, matching obligations and benefit-fund shares, and applies a treasury-stock adjustment to options. Consolidated accounting excludes the fund’s 846.8M shares while held by the wholly owned subsidiary. T, F and E carry governance rights and contribute no economic shares. The sensitivity at $70 and $78 holds the midpoint bridge fixed; final conversions, option adjustments and private share counts can change. 0609

Compare the selected valuation with public companies and historical IPOs in the Comparisons chapter.

Previous funding

Linear bars use separate scales for selected cash amounts and valuation references. Green valuations: company-announced E–H post-money figures. Copper valuations: Forge’s A–D estimates derived from corporate filings, with their own record dates. In particular, the B valuation reference is February 2023, later than the April 2022 $580M announcement. D cash aggregates the specified D-1/D-3 sales over January–May 2024; the valuation uses Forge’s March 2024 D-2/D-3 reference. Strategic notes and other financings are outside this selected cash series. 3940410642434445110

Still unknown: A fully reconciled, issuer-confirmed A–D post-money series on one consistent diluted-share basis was not verified. The chart preserves the source dates and estimation status. It should not be used to infer a split-adjusted investor return.

Earlier rounds and strategic tranches

Round / tranche	Date	Amount	Valuation context
Series A	May 2021	$124M	Company announcement gives the amount.
Series B	Apr 2022	$580M	Company announcement gives the amount.
Series C	May 2023	$450M	Spark led. Company announcement gives the amount.
Series D-1 and D-3 sales	Jan–May 2024	$1.2B	Prospectus discloses sale proceeds across the two series.
First Amazon note package	Sep 2023–Mar 2024	$4B total	Strategic convertible financing. Separate from preferred round pricing.

Series A–D post-money values are omitted where the cited primary source supplies no like-for-like number. The aggregate capital raised measure includes instruments beyond this selected round history. 39404105

Private marketplaces and current exposures

Route	What it holds	What to verify
Forge secondary market	Direct shares or a vehicle interest depending on the listing. Live Anthropic pricing requires platform access.	Class and split basis, matched trade versus quote, fees, transfer consent, and remaining lockup. May Series H is a disclosed financing mark. 5045
ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX)	Interval fund with Anthropic among portfolio holdings. The manager reported 6.40% at May 31, 2026 in its IPO-wave material.	Current holdings, mark, repurchase window and liquidity. The dated weight can move. 5152
Fundrise Innovation Fund (NYSE · VCX)	Listed closed-end fund. Its June 30 economic-issuer table put Anthropic at more than 20% of net assets, with some exposure held through co-investment vehicles.	Current NAV, holdings, fees and the market-price premium or discount. Buying VCX gives portfolio exposure, with its own pricing and liquidity. 8788
Amazon / Alphabet / Microsoft / NVIDIA	Listed shares with varying strategic exposure and diversified businesses.	Check the underlying stake, potential dilution, commercial obligations, and how material those are to each company. 053836
IPO order or Nasdaq purchase	Class A through an eligible broker allocation or open-market trade once the stock lists.	Final offer terms, broker eligibility, allocation, and opening price. 0515

Model price and capability reference

Provider / model	Typical use	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Coding FrontierSWE v2	Workflows AutomationBench
Anthropic · Fable 5.2	Demanding technical and research tasks	$8	$40	69.9%	51.4%
Anthropic · Opus 5.5	Complex coding and knowledge work	$4	$20	62.3%	42.5%
Anthropic · Sonnet 5.5	General work with speed and cost sensitivity	$2	$10	—	—
Anthropic · Haiku 5.5	High-volume extraction and routing	$0.10*	$0.50*	—	—
OpenAI · GPT-6 Astra	Demanding reasoning, coding and research	$10	$50	65.5%	41.4%
OpenAI · GPT-6.1 Sol	Complex work with lower token cost	$2	$10	—	—
Google · Gemini 4 Carbon	Reasoning and enterprise agents	$2†	$10†	61.2%	53.9%

Standard direct API prices checked November 12, USD per million tokens, before caching, batch and tool fees. *Haiku prices become $0.50 input / $2.50 output above 100K input tokens. †Google’s introductory prices run through November 30, then become $4 / $20. OpenAI applies higher rates above its long-input threshold. 539596

The two benchmark columns use Anthropic’s November 9 cross-vendor evaluation table. Its harness, effort and selection of tasks affect results. A dash means the cited table supplies no score for that model. Scores do not measure customer ROI or total task cost. 94

AI marketplace share

Economic Index · low penetration and the growth runway

The adoption figures come from the Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey, as cited in Anthropic’s September 15, 2025 report. They measure the share of firms reporting AI production use at that time. 108

Still unknown: These figures do not establish current business AI penetration, Claude’s penetration of all businesses, future spending per adopter or the duration of Anthropic’s recent growth rates.

There is no consistent global AI market-share denominator across these datasets. Size consumer subscriptions, enterprise tokens, and cloud distribution separately when building a market model.

Kalshi and Robinhood event contracts

Route	Verified product or access	What the holder receives
Kalshi	An Anthropic IPO-announcement market exists, with contracts on confirmation before specified dates.	A binary event payout under the market rules. The contract can resolve on SEC effectiveness, IPO pricing or an exchange assigning a ticker. It can therefore settle before the stock’s first trade. 100
Robinhood Derivatives	Its event-contract disclosure describes access to contracts cleared through ForecastEx or Kalshi. An Anthropic-specific Robinhood listing was not confirmed in reviewed public pages.	Access depends on the contract offered in the account. Robinhood’s disclosure describes these CFTC-regulated products as cleared swaps. Read the selected contract’s settlement rule. 101
Exposure to ANT itself	IPO shares, listed stock, equity options when introduced, or a separately listed single-stock future.	These instruments have returns tied to the security or its price. An IPO-date event contract pays on its defined event and conveys no equity ownership. 069965100

• A strong IPO. I expect broad investor demand and the relative scarcity of listed AI pure plays to support a strong debut.
• Extraordinary growth. In my judgment, this is the most extraordinary revenue growth story of all time: from $41M in 2023 to $35.3B of trailing revenue through September 2026. 06
• A long runway for margin expansion. I see the GPU and data-center buildout, higher utilization and incremental training efficiency putting Anthropic on a path toward sustained margin expansion. The outcome depends on capacity arriving economically and profitable demand keeping pace.
• The AI long tail. I believe the expanding range of useful AI tasks can sustain significant, durable growth and allow Anthropic to earn its high multiple over time. The compound growth factors link customer adoption and deeper usage to the revenue opportunity. Alphabet and Meta illustrate how a large, expanding opportunity can sustain growth for years. This is an analogy and a forecast.
• Market-share peak by the end of 2027. I expect Anthropic’s share of AI revenue to peak by then. My thesis therefore depends on growth in the overall revenue pool continuing to support the company as competition broadens. The market-share datasets above have different denominators, so this forecast needs a consistent measure to be tested.
• Attention and customer lock-in. In my experience as an AI fintech operator, Claude models are strong, while their pricing may prove unsustainable against competing offers. Firms must keep customer attention and control useful workflows to retain pricing power. Anthropic is especially exposed if customers can shift those workflows or route workloads elsewhere.
• Contribution-margin risk beneath the growth. I expect frontier labs to navigate most of the attention and lock-in challenges. As the stakes rise, customer acquisition, retention and competitive pricing can still pressure revenue left after direct serving costs. I believe that risk sits near the heart of Anthropic’s 2026 revenue power, even alongside my longer-term margin-expansion thesis.

The forecasts and assessments in this section are James Damschroder’s views as of the last edit date. The preceding chapters provide the disclosed facts, dated third-party observations and explicit scenarios on which readers can assess them. 06107106

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60. 60Menlo Ventures · 2025 enterprise AI market study
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62. 62Cboe BZX · options on newly IPO'd equities rule filing
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63. 63OCC · series search
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64. 64CME Group · single-stock futures launch
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65. 65CME Group · listed single-stock futures
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68. 68Alphabet · trailing sales data
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69. 69Amazon · trailing sales data
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90. 90SpaceX · market value and total shares reference
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91. 91Salesforce · trailing revenue and July 2026 period
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93. 93Oracle · trailing revenue
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99. 99Nasdaq ISE · approved rule permitting large IPO options from second business day
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100. 100Kalshi · Anthropic IPO event contract and settlement rules
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107. 107James Damschroder · author biography
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109. 109Anthropic Economic Index · Cadences, June 26, 2026
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110. 110Forge · estimated historical valuations and dated financing records, reviewed November 12
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112. 112S&P Global · 2024 survey, exchange-traded / other funds / derivatives / benchmarked assets
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113. 113FTSE Russell · December 2025 paper, 2024 active/passive AUM and size segments
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114. 114FTSE Russell · $658B ETF reference, September 2024
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116. 116GIC · Series F investment and Series G lead role, February 12, 2026; individual check undisclosed
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119. 119Interactive Brokers · account platform and client types; general context, no Anthropic allocation established
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120. 120Fidelity · Q2 2026 business update, assets under administration
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121. 121Fidelity Capital Markets · 57 million customers as of December 31, 2025
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123. 123Interactive Brokers · October 2026 client equity, accounts and credit balances
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124. 124Robinhood · Q3 2026 10-Q, platform assets, accounts, customers and cash
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125. 125Morgan Stanley · Q3 2026 financial supplement, self-directed channel assets and households
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