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Polymarket traders price a 65 percent chance that Anthropic lists under the ANT stock ticker

Anthropic’s stock ticker is projected to be $ANT, per Polymarket, with traders giving it a 65% chance. Anthropic is reportedly aiming to go public in November, after the midterms.

Polymarket chart showing a 65 percent probability that Anthropic will use the public stock ticker ANT, up 33 percentage points over the past week on 139,372 dollars in volume.

Context

Why it matters

Prediction market activity around Anthropic's prospective stock ticker and post midterm IPO window reflects surging investor anticipation for the first standalone public listing by a frontier AI model lab.

Anthropic has raised tens of billions of dollars in private capital from Amazon, Google, and institutional investors as enterprise adoption of Claude and Claude Code accelerated through 2026. Prediction markets on Polymarket have tracked both Anthropic's projected public valuation and its potential stock exchange ticker symbol.

Deep dive

On October 24, financial news account Unusual Whales highlighted Polymarket prediction market data showing traders pricing a 65 percent probability that Anthropic will list under the stock ticker ANT. The underlying Polymarket contract, shared earlier by Polymarket Money, jumped 33 percentage points over the past week on roughly 139,372 dollars in trading volume.

Unusual Whales also noted unconfirmed market reports suggesting that Anthropic is aiming to go public in November 2026 following the United States midterm elections. Separate Polymarket contracts tracked during the week priced a 94 percent probability that Anthropic reaches at least a 1.5 trillion dollar valuation by December 31, 2026, alongside a 9 percent probability that the company files an initial public offering before year end.

These figures represent prediction market odds and secondhand media speculation rather than an official public filing or confirmation from Anthropic. The company has not publicly announced an S1 registration statement, an official listing timeline, or a reserved stock exchange ticker symbol.

What to expect next

Whether Anthropic files publicly before year end or remains private into 2027, a public listing by a pure play frontier AI model lab will force standard quarterly disclosure of compute capital expenditures, gross margins on token inference, model training depreciation schedules, and enterprise subscription retention across public equity markets for the first time in the generative AI wave, setting valuation benchmarks for the entire sector.