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Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) stock is at $74.52, up 6% in Thursday afternoon trading. The move is part of a broad bid across the pure-play space names rather than a Rocket Lab story on its own. That framing matters, because the group is trading together and the read on today changes if it’s treated as a […]

A volatile week saw AI regulation fears hit chip stocks before a recovery, with MarketBeat writers covering Micron, Nike, Tesla, Rocket Lab, Adobe, SpaceX and other stocks ahead of key inflation and jobs data.

Investors must weigh if the stock's price is a buying opportunity.

Shares of earth imaging satellite company Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) jumped 7% in the afternoon session after an industry report addressing satellite hardware lifecycles and post-quantum cryptographic security highlighted the company as an active space sector participant with developments, according to the company’s press release. The report emphasized that satellites must be engineered to outlive the encryption systems protecting them over their operational lifecycles. Post-quantum cryptographic sec

After losing some value lately, a hammer chart pattern has been formed for Planet Labs PBC (PL), indicating that the stock has found support. This, combined with an upward trend in earnings estimate revisions, could lead to a trend reversal for the stock in the near term.

Rocket Lab (RKLB) stock has traded between $39.48 and $150.23 over the past 52 weeks. It now sits about 58% below its 52-week high, and anyone who bought twelve months ago is still up about 19%. None of that tells you what you would be buying today. Rocket Lab sells two quite different things, and the one its name points at is the smaller of them.

Planet Labs PBC (PL) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

Today, Sept. 4, 2026, the satellite imagery provider's earnings beat, lifting the full-year outlook to $430M–$441M, though mixed analyst moves kept gains in check.

AST SpaceMobile shares jumped nearly 12% after Berenberg initiated coverage with a Buy rating and $92 price target, even as regulatory hurdles and cash burn remain key challenges.

Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) stock is rallying 10% to $20.10 in early Friday trading after the Earth-observation company posted a record Q2 FY2027 revenue beat that overshadowed a softer third-quarter revenue outlook. The reversal stands out because the stock closed at $18.35 on Thursday, falling 8% into the report. Planet Labs stock was up 185% over […]

Planet Labs reported fiscal second-quarter sales of $116.1 million Thursday afternoon. Wall Street was looking for $104.5 million.

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL) shares rose 14. 1% in pre-market trading after the company reported fiscal second-quarter 2027 results that exceeded analyst expectations for revenue and adjusted earnings.

Both companies are unprofitable with sky-high valuations, but they are now seeing more than 30% year-over-year sales growth.

Record quarterly revenue and strong earnings helped PL beat Wall Street estimates, while softer near-term guidance could test the rally.

Planet Labs PBC (PL) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +200.00% and +10.67%, respectively, for the quarter ended July 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Earth imaging satellite company Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) reported Q2 CY2026 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with sales up 58.1% year on year to $116.1 million. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $103 million was less impressive, coming in 10.5% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.02 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.

A new European defense contract and a fresh analyst Buy rating landed for Planet Labs on Thursday, yet the stock cratered anyway while the broader market rallied. Something specific to this sector is spooking investors ahead of a closely watched earnings release tonight.

Berenberg has initiated coverage on four major space companies with optimistic ‘Buy’ recommendations, igniting a significant market rebound led by a double-digit surge in AST SpaceMobile stock.

Space stock euphoria peaked ahead of SpaceX’s record-setting initial public stock offering, before the sector fell back to Earth. The broker launched coverage of four space stocks on Wednesday, all with Buy ratings: AST, Rocket Lab Planet Labs and HawkEye 360 HawkEye 360 according to ratings aggregators. Berenberg didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Berenberg just handed two beaten-down space stocks their biggest single-session pops in weeks, but the reason one name surged twice as hard as the other reveals a fault line in how the market is pricing the entire sector.

Investing.com -- Berenberg launched coverage of the U.S. and European space sector, initiating Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, Planet Labs, and HawkEye 360 at Buy, and Avio SpA at Hold. The new coverage joins Berenberg’s existing Buy rating on OHB SE.

The multiple rests on a launch vehicle that has yet to fly and an acquisition that has yet to close, while most of the revenue arriving today comes from satellites.

The stocks in this article have caught Wall Street’s attention in a big way, with price targets implying returns above 20%. But investors should take these forecasts with a grain of salt because analysts typically say nice things about companies so their firms can win business in other product lines like M&A advisory.

The defense launch demand behind Rocket Lab stock's run was visible in the company's own contract announcements months before the market paid for it.

Its correlation to the index is only moderate, and the behavior that is genuinely its own runs on defense programs and a rocket that has yet to fly.

SpaceX delivered a blockbuster revenue beat in its first public earnings report, yet shares are cratering while every other space stock barely flinches. What spooked investors has nothing to do with rockets and everything to do with a number buried deep in the capex line.

Space stocks are surging ahead of SpaceX's first-ever public earnings report, but with prediction markets flagging a 70% chance of a miss and a 911-million-share lockup expiry days away, traders face a tense setup that could cut either way.

Globalstar rose nearly 3% in July, outperforming a space sector in which several peers lost more than one-third of their value.

Marvell is profitable with fortress-like balance sheet strength, while Planet Labs burns cash despite satellite growth. One carries far less financial risk.

Both companies are unprofitable but growing rapidly, though one carries significantly lower valuation multiples and less reliance on government contracts.