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Markets · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Anthropic sets a price range for the shares it wants to sell

The File desk · Nov. 11, 2026, 6:34 a.m. ET

Confirmed2 primary sourcesAdded 6:34 a.m. ET, Nov. 11

Status

Confirmed for what Amendment No. 2 to the registration statement says. Anthropic, PBC filed it on November 10, 2026. The offering has not priced or closed.
  • Confirmed
    The share count, the $70.00 to $78.00 range, the private placement, the governance terms, and the net-proceeds estimates are in the amendment filed November 10, 2026.
  • Confirmed
    The cover says the shares may not be sold until the registration statement is effective, and that the Commission has not approved or disapproved them. No pricing date is filled in.
Anthropic, PBC has put a price on the shares it wants to sell to the public, though the shares may not be sold yet. In a filing on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, the company estimated that price at between $70.00 and $78.00 a share.1 The filing, , lists 825,000,000 Class A shares.1
On Monday, October 26, 2026, this site reported the company's first registration statement, which is the paperwork a company files before it may sell shares to ordinary buyers. The price on that cover was blank. This amendment, filed under the , revises that paperwork and fills in a range. The range is the company's current estimate. It can change, and it is not a sale. The cover, dated November 10, 2026, is marked "Subject to Completion" and says the information is not complete and may be changed. It also says: "Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus."1
The company itself would sell most of the Class A shares. Existing holders would sell the rest, and Anthropic says it will not receive the money from that block. The firms handling the sale have an option to buy more Class A shares from the company.1
Seven companies have agreed to buy a combined $26.0 billion of a separate class of stock, Class N common stock, at the same price as the public offering. They would buy it in a private placement, a sale to named buyers arranged beside the public offering rather than an offer to everyone. The buyers are Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Broadcom Inc., Google LLC, Micron Technology, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and TSMC Partners, Ltd. The filing says Google LLC is funding a portion of an earlier commitment. That sale depends on the public offering being completed, and it is scheduled to close immediately afterward. The filing says Class N shares would share in the economics and would not be entitled to vote.2
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, a Delaware company required to balance profit with a purpose written into its charter. The filing states that purpose as "the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity." A Long-Term Benefit Trust would elect Class T directors, and those directors would be a majority of the board. A single Class F share, held by a company the co-founders organize, would carry 50.1% of the vote on ordinary stockholder matters, other than the directors the trust elects. The filing calls Anthropic a controlled company, which means a buyer of the public shares would not get an equal say.3
Why it matters (Estimate). Estimate. A reader cannot buy these shares from this paperwork. The registration statement is not effective, the cover does not name a pricing day, and the delivery line is blank. If a sale later closes, the people who buy the public shares would be buying into a company the filing says is controlled, with the trust's directors a majority of the board and the founders' special share holding the ordinary vote. The Class N buyers would get an economic stake the filing says does not vote. The net-proceeds figures under How we know are the filing's estimates at the midpoint of the range. They are not a price anyone has paid, and this desk does not compute a value for the whole company.
The cover says the shares would be delivered against payment in New York, New York, "on or about" a date it leaves blank.1
How we know

Notes

  1. 1.Anthropic, PBC, , filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 10, 2026, Registration No. 333-299633, accession 0001628280-26-072484. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026072484/anthropicpbc-sx1ax2.htm The cover: "Subject to Completion. Dated November 10, 2026." "825,000,000 Shares" of Class A common stock. "We are selling 801,351,354 shares of Class A common stock and the selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are selling an additional 23,648,646 shares of Class A common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of our Class A common stock by any of the selling stockholders." "It is currently estimated that the initial public offering price per share will be between $70.00 and $78.00." "The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell nor does it seek an offer to buy these securities." "Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense." The underwriters "have the option to purchase up to an additional 123,750,000 shares" from the company. "The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York, on or about" a date that is blank. The cover names Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays, Wells Fargo Securities, and BofA Securities on the underwriting line, and names further firms. This site's October 26 story: https://thefile.news/story/anthropic-s1-filing-oct26 Retrieved 6:15 a.m. ET, Nov. 11.
  2. 2.Same amendment. The company has entered into an agreement with each of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Broadcom Inc., Google LLC ("funding a portion of its previously committed investment obligations"), Micron Technology, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and TSMC Partners, Ltd., "to purchase an aggregate of $26.0 billion of our Class N common stock in a private placement at a price per share equal to the initial public offering price." "The private placement is contingent upon, and is scheduled to close immediately subsequent to, the completion of this offering." "Although our Class N common stock is not entitled to vote, it is entitled to economic rights equivalent to those of our Class A common stock." "Certain members of our board of directors and entities affiliated or associated with them have indicated an interest in purchasing shares of our Class A common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price at an aggregate purchase price of up to $303 million." "These indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase." Use of proceeds: net proceeds "will be approximately $84.6 billion (or approximately $93.7 billion if the underwriters option to purchase additional shares of our Class A common stock is exercised in full), based upon the assumed initial public offering price of $74.00 per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range," after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions, which apply only to the Class A shares sold in the offering and not to the Class N shares in the private placement, and estimated offering expenses. The company will not receive proceeds from the selling stockholders' Class A shares.
  3. 3.Same amendment. Public benefit corporation. The stated public benefit in the charter is "the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity." The Long-Term Benefit Trust, "through a special class of common stock, Class T common stock," "generally has the authority to elect and remove the Class T directors, who together will constitute a majority of the authorized members of our board of directors." Class T stock "has no economic rights." A single Class F share goes to "a limited liability company organized by our co-founders (the Founder LLC)." "Dario Amodei, our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors, and Daniela Amodei, our President and Chairperson of our board of directors, together with our five other co-founders, will initially be the sole members of the Founder LLC." The Class F share "will be entitled to an aggregate number of votes that equals 50.1% of the total voting power" on matters submitted to stockholders generally, "including the election of our directors other than the Class T directors," and "will not have any economic rights." "We are considered a controlled company" under the listing market's governance requirements. The filing names that market. This story does not print a trading symbol.

What is still unknown or disputed

  • The day the price is set. The cover does not state one.
  • The delivery date. The line after "on or about" is blank.
  • Whether the registration statement becomes effective, and whether the offering prices or closes.
  • A value for the whole company. The filing states net proceeds, not that figure, and this desk does not compute one.

Primary sources

Every claim in this story is drawn from the documents below. If a fetch failed, that is recorded on the card.

  1. Source 1

    Amendment No. 2 to Form S-1, Anthropic, PBC

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · November 10, 2026

    Filed November 10, 2026, Registration No. 333-299633. Estimated price $70.00 to $78.00 for 825,000,000 Class A shares. The cover says the shares may not be sold until the registration statement is effective.

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026072484/anthropicpbc-sx1ax2.htm

  2. Source 2

    Anthropic files to sell shares, and the price is blank

    The File · October 27, 2026

    The October 26 registration statement left the share price blank. This amendment is a later filing, not a rewrite of that story.

    https://thefile.news/story/anthropic-s1-filing-oct26