Company: IONQ
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-037295
Chunk: 9

Company: IonQ, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 424B5
Chunk 9
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, the sales agents after our instruction will fluctuate based on a number of factors, including the market price of our common stock during the sales period, the limits we set with the sales agents in any instruction to sell shares,
and the demand for our common stock during the sales period. Because the price per share of each share sold, if any, will fluctuate during this offering, it is not currently possible to predict the number of shares that will be sold or the gross
proceeds to be raised in connection with those sales.

The common stock offered hereby will be sold in “at the market” offerings, and investors who buy shares at different times will likely pay different prices.

Investors who purchase shares in this offering at different times
will likely pay different prices, and so may experience different outcomes in their investment results. We will have discretion, subject to market demand, to vary the timing, prices, and numbers of shares sold, and there is no predetermined minimum
or maximum sales price. Investors may experience a decline in the value of their shares as a result of share sales made at prices lower than the prices they paid.

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus, and the documents incorporated by reference herein and therein contain certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance, business strategy, timing and likelihood of success, as well as plans and objectives of management for future operations. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “potentially,” “likely,” and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Those statements appear in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and the documents incorporated herein and therein by reference, particularly in the sections titled “ Business,” “ Risk Factors” and “ Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of our management that are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus include, but are not limited to, statements about:

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