SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies)
Industrials · Aerospace & Defense
Structural read: the IPO is the event, but the business is a two-sided monopoly-ish franchise: launch (where reusability gave SpaceX a cost structure no competitor has matched) and Starlink (a vertically-integrated LEO broadband network that the launch business builds for free).
77T valuation prices SpaceX above all but a handful of public companies on day one. The retail wave will be enormous; the question is whether the valuation already capitalizes Starship + Starlink success that has not fully arrived.
- Launch dominance: reusable Falcon flies the majority of global orbital mass; cost-per-kg advantage compounds into share and margin.
- Starlink is the asset: a scaled LEO broadband network with millions of subscribers and growing enterprise / government / aviation / maritime revenue; the launch arm builds it at internal cost.
- Starship optionality: if heavy-lift reusability works at scale, it resets the cost curve again (constellation refresh, lunar / Mars cargo, point-to-point).
- Government anchor: NASA + US Space Force + DoD demand is sticky and strategic.
- Valuation: ~$1.77T capitalizes a lot of Starship + Starlink success that is still partly ahead. Day-one multiple leaves little margin for a program slip.
- Key-person and governance: Musk concentration, dual-class control, and attention split across his other ventures.
- Starship execution + regulatory (launch cadence, environmental) risk on the next-gen program the bull case leans on.
- Capital intensity: launch + constellation is a heavy-capex business; competition in LEO broadband (Kuiper, others) is arriving.
- De-listing-day mechanics: a fixed-price mega-IPO with a huge retail bid can gap and round-trip; index inclusion timing adds flow distortion.
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