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$RKLB — Q2 2026 Revenue $234M, up 62% YoY and $34M above last quarter’s record GAAP EPS –$0.08 Backlog $2.36B, up 137% YoY I said watch two things. Both landed. Neutron held its date. First-flight hardware is moving through assembly and testing, and Stage 1 tank production is still aligned with getting the rocket to the launch pad in Q4 2026. No slip. Margins beat, not compressed. Non-GAAP gross margin came in at 41.5% against a 38–40% guide. Management had warned the shift toward satellite parts would squeeze margins. It didn’t happen but Q3 is now guided to 35–37%. The compression didn’t cancel. It moved a quarter to the right. @Peter_J_Beck says Rocket Lab has already signed over $1B of new contracts in Q3. For scale, the company’s entire revenue for all of 2025 was $ 602M. They’re now booking work faster than they can build it. Backlog at $2.36B against $234M of quarterly output means roughly two and a half years of production already sold. And the thing no estimate priced One day before this quarter closed, Rocket Lab agreed to buy Iridium for $8B. Satellite phones, aircraft tracking, 66 satellites, 2.5M paying subscribers. $27 a share cash plus stock, closing mid-2027, part-funded by a $3.6B bridge loan. Rocket Lab today has almost no recurring revenue. Iridium is almost entirely recurring revenue. If it closes, this stops being a company that sells launches and becomes one that also collects subscriptions every month. The read The execution risk everyone was pricing came back clean. What replaced it is bigger: an $8B acquisition that doesn’t close for a year, billions in new debt, two rockets and a phone network and Q3 guided to thinner margins on record revenue. Information, not advice.

$RKLB — Q2 2026 Estimate Rocket Lab launches its Electron rocket almost weekly, is building a bigger reusable rocket (Neutron), and has spent the last couple years buying up companies that make satellite parts. They report tonight after the close. Estimate: Consensus: $231.6M revenue, –$0.03 to –$0.06 EPS A year ago: $144.5M revenue, –$0.13 EPS So the Street expects roughly 60% YoY growth and the loss cut by more than half. Worth noting the company guided $225–240M back in May. Consensus landed at $ 231.6M. The Street has essentially repeated management back to itself. Recent form: Revenue has beaten estimates 8 quarters straight. EPS is spottier, only 3 of the last 8. Last quarter was $200.3M, up 63.5%, with $2.2B of backlog and over $2B of liquidity behind it. Where the money actually sits: Market cap is $50.6B, about 73x trailing sales. At that price you're not paying for the rockets they're launching now, you're paying for Neutron working, flying often, and making money. Electron is the reliable part, the one generating the beats every quarter. Neutron hasn't shipped a single dollar of revenue yet, but it's carrying almost the entire valuation. So the headline number tonight probably beats again, like it usually does. What actually matters is what management says about Neutron's timeline, and whether Space Systems margins are heading somewhere that justifies the price. That side of the business just took a $397M Space Force contract in early August, which is a different animal to building satellite parts. The margin trend there is the thing to read closely. Information, not advice.

$OKLO - Q2 2026 Oklo builds fast-fission reactors the size of a house and sells the electricity rather than the reactor. Has never sold a commercial megawatt-hour. Revenue $1.21M EPS –$0.28 (vs –$0.18 a year ago; loss per share widened ~56%) Street had $91k revenue and –$0.17 EPS 2026 guidance Operating cash burn: $120–150M Capex: $400–500M Total: $520–650M out the door this year The read Oklo is spending roughly 400x its quarterly revenue on plant and equipment. This isn't an earnings stream, it's a reactor buildout, and the bet is that the Aurora units get to grid before the balance sheet gets uncomfortable. Which is why the capex line carries more signal than EPS here. EPS at this stage is an accounting artifact of a company that hasn't switched anything on yet. The numbers doing the work are how long the cash lasts against a +$500M annual run rate, and whether NRC licensing milestones land on schedule. Risk in one line: pre-revenue infrastructure with a decade-long payback, priced on a story. Information, not advice.

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