Barron’s Al Root says he got SpaceX’s xAI merger wrong

An excerpt shared on September 13, 2026, quotes Barron’s Al Root reconsidering his view of SpaceX’s February merger with xAI. “We said that SpaceX was the big loser,” he writes, but says shareholders now look like the winners. He attributes the reassessment to revenue accelerating faster than expected and acknowledges an “error in forecasting.”