Mapping SpaceX's Lockup Expirations: HSBC Calculates When The Shares Could Hit The Market
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92% rise in revenue for the April-June quarter, buoyed by strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI businesses.
It reported revenue of US$7.8 billion, compared with US$4.1 billion a year earlier.
Starlink and SpaceX's broader connectivity operations, remain the company's primary financial engine, underpinning CEO Elon Musk's push to build an AI-first business that extends beyond renting compute capacity to developing frontier models, consumer and enterprise software and eventually, data centers in space.
The company's satellite-internet unit has continued to expand its global subscriber base, aided by launches of additional satellites and a growing range of consumer, enterprise, aviation, maritime and government services.
Investors are watching whether SpaceX can maintain growth while improving the economics of its network, particularly as it spends heavily to expand coverage, increase capacity and develop direct-to-device mobile services.
SpaceX's AI business, which includes xAI, Grok, and social-media platform X, and a rapidly expanding data center operation, has been its biggest area of investment. The business is generating revenue from compute contracts with Anthropic, Alphabet's Google and Reflection AI, though a portion of its recurring revenue has yet to be recognized.
Grok 4.7 could arrive within three to four weeks, while Grok 5 is expected before year-end.
Grok token volumes tripled after the release of Grok 4.5.
The second major catalyst is Starship Flight 14, which Morgan Stanley expects in early September.
A third catalyst is the potential for higher artificial intelligence computing prices. CoreWeave's roughly 25% price increase across its products suggests its SpaceX pricing assumptions could prove too conservative.
The fourth is a potential distributed inference cloud using robots and other connected devices. Morgan Stanley estimates 2.2 billion robots could be operating by 2040, with 500 watts of computing capacity each, equivalent to 1.1 terawatts of aggregate compute potentially connected through Starlink.
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