Scared to Buy SpaceX Shares? These 3 Stocks Give You a Back Door In.
Written by Micah Zimmerman for The Motley Fool -> SpaceX's expansion of Starlink, launch capacity, and space manufacturing is creating demand across the broader space economy. Intuitive Machines and AST SpaceMobile are direct beneficiaries: Both companies rely on SpaceX launche
SpaceX's expansion of Starlink, launch capacity, and space manufacturing is creating demand across the broader space economy.
Intuitive Machines and AST SpaceMobile are direct beneficiaries: Both companies rely on SpaceX launches and stand to benefit from increased investment in lunar missions and satellite connectivity.
Viasat's government and defense communications business could gain from growing demand for secure, diversified satellite networks despite competition from Starlink.
SpaceX's public debut is taking place right now and it has captured Wall Street's attention, but investors should remember that even great companies can be volatile stocks after an initial public offering (IPO). At a roughly $1.75 trillion valuation , expectations are already extraordinarily high, and history is full of highly anticipated offerings that experienced sharp swings as the market digested their valuations. For many investors, the better opportunity may not be buying SpaceX itself but investing in companies that stand to benefit from the growth of the broader space economy that SpaceX is helping to build.
Something gets overlooked in IPO frenzies like this. SpaceX is not only a company going public and teasing people to open a brokerage account. It is an infrastructure event. The build-out that follows its listing -- Starlink's constellation expansion, new ground stations, a growing commercial launch manifest, and the Terafab chip facility -- requires customers, partners, and payload operators who need to put things in orbit.
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Three publicly traded companies are already part of that ecosystem in ways the market hasn't fully priced in.
Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) sits in the most unusual position in all of commercial space: It has already landed on the lunar surface twice, holds a growing backlog of NASA and defense contracts, and is building out the infrastructure that any serious long-term lunar economy needs to function.
