Why OpenAI’s Delayed IPO Filing May Have Just Been the Death Knell for AI Stocks

AI stocks will crash, with many current leaders losing 50% of their value from their peaks.

The answer to "why?" requires us to go back a few weeks to June 8, 2026. That's when OpenAI announced it had confidentially filed its S-1 paperwork with the SEC. The hype machine was working overtime, with bankers floating an unprecedented public valuation target of up to $1 trillion.

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But before we could even get to the next calendar month, the news has completely flipped. According to reports on June 25, OpenAI's financial advisors are now blinking, actively urging the company to push its heavily anticipated IPO all the way back to 2027.

OpenAI's private funding rounds have been an ex

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/why-openai-delayed-ipo-filing-124501701.html)