It's Still Early In The New Space Race
Summary
- We've specialized in the space sector since 2017, which is more or less the Dawn of Time in space investing.
- We've had our wins along the way, in Maxar ($MAXR), Aerojet Rocketdyne ($AJRD), Virgin Galactic ($SPCE) and most recently RocketLab ($RKLB).
- The sector remains in its early days, with plenty of growth ahead.
- We lay out some investment ideas for you below.
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We'll Keep This One Brief
In our long investment careers we have learned many things, some a result of successes and some a result of, er, not-successes. And one thing we have learned as a result of both is that when you see long-run secular growth available in a new market, there can be decades of gains ahead.
We feel that way about a couple topics right now.
In tech, we think that metaverse names are going to drive the next phase of internet evolution. We'll have more to say to you about that later this month.
In space, we think that the new commercial vendors are just getting started and though their stock prices are mainly still depressed after SPACs got a bad name, we think this will be receding in the rear view mirror over the course of the next twelve months or so.
If you want a list of space names to consider investing in, we suggest you take a look at:
- RocketLab (RKLB) - SpaceX junior right now, Mars-venturer in the future
- Spire Global (SPIR) - low cost Earth observation player in the RF spectrum
- Planet Labs (DMYQ) - low cost Earth observation player in the optical spectrum
- Maxar Technologies (MAXR) - high end Earth observation player in the optical spectrum
- Redwire (RDW) - grab-bag of actual real-world businesses selling actual products to space customers - their new solar arrays are being deployed on the International Space Station for instance.
We could go on.
You can see from the above that the space looks crowded and it would be easy to conclude that there are a lot of vendors here and it's too hard to work out which are most likely to be long run winners.
We respectfully disagree.
Our low cost space sector research service, Cestrian Space Select, helps you sort out the black holes from the supernovae, the low-earth-orbiters from the deep-space-explorers. Why, for instance, in our view, all three of MAXR, SPIR and DMYQ are all compelling long-term holds despite them apparently competing (clue: they don't). Why SPIR, though it seems boring just watching ships and weather all day, is a far more valuable business model long term than is RKLB, despite the latter's ability to generate heat and light.
Oh, and why SPIR's $160m acquisition announced today is a great move by the company in our view.
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Cestrian Capital Research, Inc - 14 September 2021.
Analyst's Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of RDW, SPIR, SPIR.WS, RKLB, DMYQ either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives.
Cestrian Capital Research, Inc staff personal accounts hold long positions in each of the above instruments.
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