The media scoreboard
sbfindex.com2.9×too high
The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Benzinga all multiplied FTX's 2024 stake (7.8% to 8%) by a later valuation. Anthropic kept issuing shares, so the stake kept shrinking.1 Nobody did it on purpose. Dilution is easy to miss.
What they saidThe record, same valuation
All 9 articles
- The Wall Street JournalOct 12, 2026Said $75B at a $965B valuation. The record: $26.2B. 2.9×
- ForbesMay 5, 2026Said $80B at a $1T valuation. The record: $30.4B. 2.6×
- Forbes (contributor)Mar 18, 2026Said $30.4B at a $380B valuation. The record: $11.5B. 2.6×
- TheStreet, on Yahoo FinanceOct 12, 2026Said $75B at a $965B valuation. The record: $26.2B. 2.9×
- Moneywise, on Yahoo FinanceOct 1, 2026Said $75B at a $965B valuation. The record: $26.2B. 2.9×
- BenzingaApr 23, 2026Said $64B at a $800B valuation. The record: $24.3B. 2.6×
- CCN, on Yahoo FinanceApr 23, 2026Said $82.3B at an implied $1T valuation. The record: $31.2B. 2.6×
- BenzingaApr 2, 2026Said $28.8B at a $380B valuation. The record: $11.5B. 2.5×
- BenzingaSep 4, 2025Said $14.64B at a $183B valuation. The record: $6.28B. 2.3×
The record prices FTX's 44,539,240 shares at each article's own valuation, using Anthropic's share count at the time.2 Archived copies of every article are in our research files.
