Top Space Stocks To Watch Now - October 18th

Key Points

• Boeing, AST SpaceMobile, GE Aerospace, Rocket Lab, and Lockheed Martin are highlighted as the top space stocks to watch, reflecting a high trading volume in the sector.
• Space stocks are considered high-growth but volatile investments with risks related to development timelines and regulatory hurdles.
• Each featured company specializes in distinct areas within the space industry, such as satellite manufacturing or launch services, indicating diverse opportunities for investors.

Boeing, AST SpaceMobile, GE Aerospace, Rocket Lab, and Lockheed Martin are the five Space stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Space stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business activities support or derive significant revenue from space-related technologies and services—such as rocket launch providers, satellite manufacturers and operators, space infrastructure and logistics, and firms offering space-enabled data and communications. Investors view space stocks as a thematic, potentially high-growth but capital-intensive and volatile segment with long development timelines, regulatory and execution risks, and often speculative price behavior. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Space stocks within the last several days.

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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AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)

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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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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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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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