# Anthropic moves toward a November roadshow for its Nasdaq listing with no price range filed yet

Its prospectus reports $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, 80% of it consumption-based, and an $80.7 billion net loss that includes a $72.4 billion non-cash charge.

- Published: 2026-11-06T10:11:19.661Z
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- Sources: [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/news/s1-sec), [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund), [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/live/anthropic-ipo-live-updates-frontier-ai-lab-discloses-revenue-and-risks-in-highly-anticipated-s-1-filing-141702607.html), [FinanceFeeds](https://financefeeds.com/anthropic-ipo-roadshow-looms-with-no-price-range/), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ipo-live-updates-ai-s-1-filing.html)

Anthropic, a public benefit corporation (PBC), [filed a Form S-1](https://www.anthropic.com/news/s1-sec) with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26 for an initial public offering of Class A common stock. It plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, [according to coverage of the filing](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/live/anthropic-ipo-live-updates-frontier-ai-lab-discloses-revenue-and-risks-in-highly-anticipated-s-1-filing-141702607.html). Bloomberg reported that the roadshow could start the week of November 9. As of November 5, [no price-range amendment had appeared](https://financefeeds.com/anthropic-ipo-roadshow-looms-with-no-price-range/) on EDGAR, the SEC's public filing database, and only that filing would confirm a schedule.

The prospectus shows revenue of $16.29 billion for the six months ended June 30, up from $1.16 billion a year earlier. Second-quarter revenue alone was $11.6 billion. Consumption-based revenue, mostly metered API and agent usage, accounted for $13.1 billion. Subscriptions accounted for $3.2 billion. International revenue was $4.5 billion. One analysis infers a gross margin of about 85% from $2.38 billion in cost of revenue. The company reported $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments.

The $80.7 billion first-half net loss includes a $72.4 billion non-cash charge. Coverage attributes most of it to changes in the fair value of convertible instruments. Anthropic booked $974 million of operating income in the second quarter. Coverage conflicts on several other figures, including the 2025 net loss ($12.9 billion in [CNBC-based reporting](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ipo-live-updates-ai-s-1-filing.html) and about $42 billion in a Reuters-based summary). The filing itself is the authority on those numbers.

A report by Implicator, [shared on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@marcus_sanfrancisco/post/Dd_qP5wjZEH/anthropic-is-pushing-its-ipo-roadshow-to-the-week-of-nov-about-a-month-later/), said investors were pricing the company at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. That figure is not in any filing. Anthropic's PBC structure and its October [public benefit fund](https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund) commitment will be part of the governance case it presents on the roadshow.

## What this means

The listing would create the first publicly traded pure-play frontier lab, and it would set a public price for assets that have so far been valued only in private rounds. Amazon and Alphabet, Anthropic's largest strategic investors, could see their stakes marked to a public price. Every private lab raising capital, OpenAI included, would face a public comparable. The revenue mix is the main risk that the headline growth figure hides. Consumption revenue scales with tokens, and Anthropic itself is cutting token cost, with Opus 5.5 billed as 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5. Growth therefore depends on usage volume rising faster than those price cuts reduce revenue per token, at a time when open weights such as Kimi K3.1 Pro offer near-parity at half the API price. The likelier sequence is a price-range amendment around the start of the roadshow, with pricing in the second half of November. CoinDesk's estimate is November 19 or 20, and that timing depends on equity markets staying receptive to large technology issues. A second delay past Thanksgiving, or a range well below the reported private valuation, would show that public investors are discounting the consumption-revenue model.

## What to watch

- The filing of a price-range amendment on EDGAR. It sets the valuation public investors are asked to pay and fixes the timetable.
- How the roadshow presents net revenue retention (how much revenue existing customers generate compared with a year earlier) and per-token pricing trends. These show whether growth comes from new volume or from customers who have not yet renegotiated their rates.
- Secondary-market prices for OpenAI shares after ANT prices. A gap would show how public investors value one lab against the other.