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Space Stocks Worth Watching - October 17th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat identifies seven notable space stocks to watch, including AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, and Boeing, highlighting their potential for high growth despite risks related to capital expenditure and regulatory challenges.
  • Rocket Lab offers a range of launch and spacecraft solutions for both the space and defense industries, while GE Aerospace focuses on manufacturing aerospace products, including jet engines and defense technologies.
  • Investors are encouraged to keep an eye on these stocks due to their substantial recent trading volumes and the broader implications of their operations within the evolving space economy.
  • Interested in AST SpaceMobile? Here are five stocks we like better.

AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, GE Aerospace, Boeing, Honeywell International, RTX, and Lockheed Martin are the seven Space stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. "Space stocks" are publicly traded companies whose primary business involves the space economy — including rocket and satellite manufacturers, launch service providers, space infrastructure and data companies, and related suppliers and defense contractors. For investors, these stocks often offer high growth potential tied to long-term technology cycles and government contracts but come with elevated risks from heavy capital expenditure, regulatory uncertainty, and execution and technological challenges. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Space stocks within the last several days.

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)

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Rocket Lab (RKLB)

Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a space company, provides launch services and space systems solutions for the space and defense industries. The company provides launch services, spacecraft design services, spacecraft components, spacecraft manufacturing, and other spacecraft and on-orbit management solutions; and constellation management services, as well as designs and manufactures small and medium-class rockets.

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GE Aerospace (GE)

GE Aerospace (also known as General Electric) is a company that specializes in providing aerospace products and services. It operates through two reportable segments: Commercial Engines and Services and Defense and Propulsion Technologies. It offers jet and turboprop engines, as well as integrated systems for commercial, military, business, and general aviation aircraft.

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Boeing (BA)

The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and launch systems, and services worldwide. The company operates through Commercial Airplanes; Defense, Space & Security; and Global Services segments.

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Honeywell International (HON)

Honeywell International Inc. engages in the aerospace technologies, building automation, energy and sustainable solutions, and industrial automation businesses in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company's Aerospace segment offers auxiliary power units, propulsion engines, integrated avionics, environmental control and electric power systems, engine controls, flight safety, communications, navigation hardware, data and software applications, radar and surveillance systems, aircraft lighting, advanced systems and instruments, satellite and space components, and aircraft wheels and brakes; spare parts; repair, overhaul, and maintenance services; and thermal systems, as well as wireless connectivity services.

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RTX (RTX)

RTX Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, provides systems and services for the commercial, military, and government customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. The Collins Aerospace Systems segment offers aerospace and defense products, and aftermarket service solutions for civil and military aircraft manufacturers and commercial airlines, as well as regional, business, and general aviation, defense, and commercial space operations.

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Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Lockheed Martin Corporation, a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of technology systems, products, and services worldwide. The company operates through Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space segments.

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