SpaceX Adds $100B in One Day—That's More Than Two Rocket Labs
SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) gained about $100 billion in market value Wednesday. Two and a half times the market cap of Rocket Lab Corp. (NASDAQ:RKLB), which gained in a single session.
SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) gained about $100 billion in market value Wednesday. Two and a half times the market cap of Rocket Lab Corp. (NASDAQ:RKLB), which gained in a single session.
SpaceX, aka Space Exploration Technologies Corp., maintains a significant valuation premium post-IPO despite the recent post-lockup expiry, supported by resilient institutional confidence and a robust execution roadmap. Increasing vertical integration across Starship launch, Starlink, and AI infrastructure strengthens longer-term revenue scalability and operating leverage. This, alongside SpaceX's latest contract win promising $1.11 billion in monthly revenue, improves visibility into its $100 billion ARR target exiting 2026 and $1 trillion annual revenue target by 2030.
Three of the loudest voices in AI spent last week working the phones.
Early SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) investor Antonio Gracias is turning his private equity company's stake into profits for backers of the company through a donation of shares, a move that comes as the stock is soaring higher.
SpaceX is reaffirmed as a buy, with recent volatility presenting attractive entry points for long-term investors. Q2 revenue surged 92% y/y to $7.81 billion, far surpassing expectations and driven primarily by the Starlink connectivity segment. Starlink posted 66% y/y revenue growth and achieved its best quarter for net-new subscriber additions, highlighting accelerating traction.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares are trading higher Thursday, extending Wednesday's rally as SpaceX follows through on a busy launch schedule ahead of next week's high-profile Starship flight.
Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company, SpaceX (SPCX, Financials), is about to run a test that might validate several of its grandest dreams at once. Starship
Ron Baron has $25 billion in SpaceX shares and a projection that Starlink alone hits $1 trillion in revenue, but the math holding that forecast together rests on a single unproven assumption about AI that deserves far more scrutiny than
Anthropic founder Dario Amodei recently published a blog post calling for a slowdown in the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development. Anthropic has a contract to lease computing capacity from Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), worth a whopping $1.25 billion per month.
SpaceX doubled down on its goal of reaching $100 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by year's end. xAI has been doing the heavy lifting, adding more than $47 billion in ARR over the past four months alone.
Starship's 14th test flight, targeted for as soon as Tuesday, Sept. 22, is the program's first attempt to reach Earth orbit.
They quit their jobs and budgeted $25,000 a month for a year of fun.
VC firm Valor Equity Partners, founded by Antonio Gracias, a long-time Elon Musk backer and current SpaceX board member, has opted to simply give away a chunk of its SpaceX stock to its limited partner investors, according to an SEC filing spotted by Bloomberg.
SpaceX's CEO just made a sweeping promise about Starlink's next generation that would dwarf everything the constellation delivers today, but the gap between a capacity claim and actual revenue is where fortunes get made or lost.
The First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (MISL) offers diversified exposure to surging U.S. defense spending, especially amid escalating demand for munitions and advanced defense systems. FY 2027 defense procurement requests show unprecedented growth, with munitions up 185% and missile orders far exceeding historical averages, supporting robust industry backlogs.
Shares of SpaceX soared over 5% Wednesday on news Elon Musk's company has a new launch date for Starship -- a huge, fully-reusable rocket that's central to the firm's business plans.
Cathie Wood calls SpaceX a deep value play at a price-to-sales ratio of 85, while Scott Galloway sees the opposite staring at the same numbers. The case for each hinges on a single question neither side can fully answer yet.
Baron Capital founder and CEO Ron Baron is a long-time investor in both Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX). When it comes to a potential merger of the two companies, Baron says CEO Elon Musk knows best.
Starlink closed the second quarter with 12.0 million subscribers, double a year earlier and up 1.7 million over three months. Getting to 24 million by the end of 2027 would require about 2 million net additions a quarter for six straight quarters.
By cracking the code on rapid, full re-usability, Starship is rewriting the economics of space exploration.