STMicroelectronics is a cheap way to play SpaceX, because it sits where satellite builders spend their money: if SpaceX has to make a million satellites, STMicroelectronics has to make a million ways to connect them. Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile and SpaceX are all in a land grab for spectrum and satellites, and all three may win, but each is oddly priced like a trillion-dollar startup. x.com 

STMicroelectronics is a cheap option on SpaceX taking off in both neocloud and space, since its LEO business, about 10% of sales, supplies all of Starlink. At under 30x 2027 estimated earnings, it also brings full analog and power-semiconductor exposure, and those power semis are its link to the neocloud side. x.com  x.com 

A SpaceX IPO should send the market chasing space supply-chain stocks next. Launch and spacecraft: Rocket Lab, Intuitive Machines, Redwire, York Space, Voyager, Firefly. Satellite internet and data: AST SpaceMobile, Iridium, Planet Labs, BlackSky, Spire, Amazon's Kuiper. Materials: MP Materials, Alcoa, Freeport, Teck, ATI, Hexcel, Park Aerospace, Carpenter, Corning, Materion. Chips and optics: Lumentum, Coherent, Applied Optoelectronics, Qorvo, Analog Devices, STMicro, Broadcom, Nvidia. x.com 

STMicroelectronics is a European growth stock for the long-term space trend as a chip supplier to SpaceX and Tesla. It delivers more than 5 million chips a day for Starlink, needed for the phased-array antennas in its terminals, and has over 40 years of expertise in chips that withstand cosmic radiation. x.com 

A stronger SpaceX could lift the wider space-stock basket, including AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, Redwire, Planet Labs, Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace and Voyager Technologies. Per DeItaone, JPMorgan raised its SpaceX price target from $240 to $500 while maintaining Overweight. The seven space stocks rose alongside SpaceX after hours. Their initial post-IPO selloff was followed by macro-driven weakness, not further weakness caused by SpaceX. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Space stocks could regain high-beta flows as SpaceX lockups end and a probable late-November Anthropic IPO threatens AI stocks, much as SpaceX's IPO hurt space names. Hedge funds are overexposed to the Magnificent Seven and underexposed or max short low-quality high beta; falling rates and toppy oil could make the rotation painful for them through 2027. AST SpaceMobile could benefit as intermittent service triggers agreements and Blue Origin possibly returns to the pad in six weeks. x.com  x.com 

SpaceX's $85 billion IPO raise has to be spent, and that money will flow through its whole value chain. For SpaceX and Starlink, beneficiaries include electronics suppliers STMicroelectronics, Filtronic, TE Connectivity, Amphenol and Texas Instruments; materials makers Hexcel, Velo3D, CPS Technologies, Constellium and ATI; and designer AECOM. For xAI's Colossus, they include Nvidia, Dell, Super Micro and Arista, plus GE Vernova, Vertiv, Caterpillar, Tesla and Bloom Energy in power and cooling. … Show more

STMicroelectronics has more upside than Infineon, though it is priced accordingly. It leads in space by selling RF chips for Starlink terminals, 60% of its data-center revenue comes from optics and microcontrollers rather than power chips, and it makes its own substrate wafers in Sicily while Infineon outsources. Infineon is the safer play: STM's margins fell to zero in the last trough versus Infineon's steady 10%, and competitors may take some of its Starlink business. x.com  x.com 

The space economy is set to be fully ignited by SpaceX's IPO. If SpaceX's valuation reaches a trillion dollars, asset pricing across the whole space industry chain will be rewritten, from launch and space systems such as Rocket Lab and Firefly to satellite communications, space imaging, specialty materials, and defense and aerospace suppliers. What matters now is not debating whether it is a bubble but already having a seat at the table. x.com 

AST SpaceMobile and Rocket Lab are setting up for potential breakouts on news of the SpaceX IPO. x.com