Company: IONQ
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-037295
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Company: IonQ, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 424B5
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facilities of The Depository Trust Company or by such other means as we and the sales agents may agree upon. There is no arrangement for funds to be received in an escrow, trust or similar arrangement.

The sales agents will use their commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with their sales and trading practices, to solicit offers to purchase the common
stock under the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the equity distribution agreement. In connection with the sale of the common stock on our behalf, each sales agent will be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of
the Securities Act and the compensation of such sales agent will be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts. We have agreed to provide indemnification and contribution to the sales agents against certain civil liabilities, including
liabilities under the Securities Act.

The offering of shares of our common stock pursuant to the equity distribution agreement will terminate upon the
termination of the equity distribution agreement as permitted therein. We and the sales agents may each terminate the equity distribution agreement at any time upon ten days’ prior notice.

Some of the sales agents and their respective affiliates have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, investment banking, commercial banking and other
commercial dealings in the ordinary course of business with us and our affiliates. They have received, or may in the future receive, customary fees and commissions for these transactions.

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In addition, each of Morgan Stanley and Needham and their affiliates may in the future provide various
investment banking, commercial banking and other financial services for us and our affiliates, for which services they may in the future receive customary fees. In addition, in the ordinary course of their business activities, the sales agents and
their respective affiliates may make or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade securities and financial instruments for their own account and for the accounts of their customers. Such investments and securities may involve securities
of ours and our affiliates. The sales agents and their respective affiliates may also make investment recommendations and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such securities or financial instruments and may hold, or
recommend to clients that they acquire, long and/or short positions in such securities and instruments. To the extent required by Regulation M, the sales agents will not engage in any market making activities involving our common stock while the
offering is ongoing under this prospectus supplement.

This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may be made available in electronic
format on a website maintained by the sales agents, and the sales agents may