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SpaceX's revenue ambitions look implausible against current sales and the risk of overbuilding chips. Revenue is $14 billion this quarter, and even the Street's $120 billion forecast for next year looks aggressive. Its costs are within its control, leaving the risk heavily skewed against investors. x.comÂ
SpaceX's extensive spending plans would lean heavily on its stock and balance sheet, making dilution harder to dismiss at a $1.4 trillion valuation. The list includes a 6-8 GW buildout by 2028 and a possible purchase of Tesla for $1.7 trillion. Betting against a company like SpaceX is challenging, so the trade needs tactical timing when markets turn risk-off. x.com x.com x.comÂ
SpaceX's addressable market cannot expand without limit because global income bounds customer spending. Even after a roughly $2B revenue beat, its $2T valuation is 17x revenue even if the annualized figure is doubled. x.comÂ
SpaceX's roughly $2T valuation is hard to justify while it burns $10B in cash annually and the market expects it to put hundreds of billions of dollars of chips into space next year. x.comÂ
SpaceX's revenue growth and raised guidance make its double beat and raise worth liking. Revenue grew 161% year over year, Q1 guidance was raised 67%, and its SI arm is growing extremely fast. Talk of $500 billion to $1 trillion in revenue by 2028 should not get investors too excited. x.comÂ
SpaceX's earnings are nothing phenomenal against its $2 trillion valuation. Its P/E is 2,000 and P/S is 170, with $4.4 billion in profits after losing that much in Q1 2026; another $2 trillion company makes $50-60 billion in net profit. x.comÂ
SpaceX's projected 2027 revenue relies on effectively unlimited demand for data-center rentals at $50 per watt per year, though a data center costs less than $50 per watt to build. Elon Musk assumes 10-20 GW at that rental rate would bring in $500 billion-$1 trillion. Setting that expectation for shareholders is irresponsible at best and hard to distinguish from a scam at worst. x.comÂ
SpaceX's projected growth is challenging the earlier overvaluation case, though the reassessment is still in progress. A VJN.ai chart projects revenue 273.3% higher by Q4 2027, even as the company is valued at $2 trillion. x.com x.comÂ
SpaceX's capital-intensive super-intelligence business makes its $2 trillion valuation hard to justify. At a reported 6% SI margin, even doubling that margin would require roughly $1 trillion in annual revenue to make the math work, about 18 times current quarterly revenue annualized. The extraordinary outcome is already priced in. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.comÂ
SpaceX faces near-term selling risk from an insider-share unlock despite a remarkably strong quarter. Tomorrow, 28% of its insider lockup pool, nearly 10% of all shares, becomes eligible for sale. Revenue reached $14.6 billion, up 161%, with $4.4 billion in net profit; $7.6 billion in AI revenue now exceeds Starlink and other connectivity revenue combined. x.comÂ
SpaceX looks extremely cheap because management's new revenue outlook could shrink its lofty sales multiple if ambitions become lasting profits. CFO Bret Johnsen guided $33-37B in Q1 2027 revenue, and roughly $42B of a $63B backlog is expected to be recognized within a year. At a fixed $1.95T enterprise value, today's 61x trailing sales would fall to about 13-15x on annualized Q1 guidance; Elon Musk's $500B-$1T end-2027 ARR outlook implies 2-4x. The targets still need to be delivered. x.com … Show more
SpaceX's AI-cloud ambitions face a severe two-sided constraint: finding 12 GW of Rubin capacity in one year looks implausible, and even that buildout would need customers willing to rent roughly $50B of compute annually. The scale of both the supply and demand challenges makes the plan highly skeptical. x.comÂ
