On September 17, Rocket Lab USA, Inc. rose 5.09% in regular trading, trading at $67.52/share, with turnover of $326 million, as US-listed space concept stocks rallied broadly.
The sector-wide surge saw Redwire Corp up over 8%, Intuitive Machines and Sidus Space up over 7%, and AST SpaceMobile up over 5%, with Rocket Lab USA, Inc. among the notable gainers. The rally comes amid a string of positive catalysts for Rocket Lab, most notably the completion of a $1.944 billion at-the-market equity offering on September 15, issuing 29.3 million shares to fund its approximately $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications. The company successfully terminated its $3.6 billion high-cost bridge loan commitment, establishing a more cost-effective long-term capital structure.
Rocket Lab's CFO stated during World Space Business Week that the Iridium deal would double the company's scale overnight and fill a critical gap in its transformation into a fully integrated end-to-end space operator. Additionally, the company recently completed its 16th Electron launch of the year and received an Outperform initiation from Raymond James with an $80 price target, while the analyst consensus target stands at $113.77.
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