On September 24, Rocket Lab USA, Inc. rose 5.41% in regular trading, trading at $74.33 per share, with turnover of $843 million. The rally was driven by a combination of a major institutional purchase and bullish commentary from the company's CEO regarding its pending Iridium Communications acquisition.
ARK Invest disclosed its latest portfolio adjustments, revealing purchases of approximately 359,612 shares of Rocket Lab across three ETFs — ARK Innovation ETF, ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF, and ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF — totaling roughly $25.13 million. This marked ARK's largest single-day buy and follows an earlier addition of 505,000 shares in early September, underscoring its sustained conviction in the commercial space sector.
Simultaneously, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck publicly highlighted Iridium's L-band spectrum as the critical asset behind the proposed approximately $8 billion acquisition, noting its signal strength is up to 1,000 times that of GPS and far more resistant to interference — attributes he described as highly valuable for defense and secure communications. The company recently completed a $1.944 billion equity raise and terminated its $3.6 billion bridge loan, establishing a more cost-effective capital structure to fund the deal.
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