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Wall Street just joined the SpaceX fan club
Goldman Sachs kicked off coverage of SpaceX with a Buy and a $205 price target, which is banker-speak for: this thing still has room to run. The stock closed at $160.42 on July 6, so Goldman is basically betting on about 28% upside from here.
Not just rockets anymore
Here’s the twist: Goldman doesn’t see SpaceX as a one-trick launch company anymore. After merging with xAI in February and folding in the X platform, the firm says the company now has three engines:
- Space: launch and reusable rockets
- Connectivity: Starlink broadband and mobile
- AI: compute, Grok, and advertising
That matters because investors usually pay up for a company when it stops behaving like a single-product science project and starts acting like a platform. Same brand, different vibes.
The bull case is basically “scale, baby”
Goldman’s math is the kind of thing that makes your coffee go cold: it sees revenue jumping from $18.7 billion in 2025 to $474.3 billion by 2030. It also thinks margins could swing from negative 13.9% to around 50% by then, helped by higher-margin Starlink and AI revenue.
The bank is betting that SpaceX’s launch dominance gives it a nasty cost advantage, which lets it deploy satellites, build out connectivity, and even host compute deals with customers like Alphabet. In other words, the company wants to be the infrastructure layer for space and AI. Casual little ambition.
The catch: this isn’t cheap, and it won’t be pretty on the way there
Goldman also says SpaceX may need about $270 billion of debt from 2026 through 2030 and doesn’t expect positive free cash flow until Q4 2030. So yes, the upside story is huge — but so is the bill.
Big picture: Wall Street seems willing to treat SpaceX like a future platform giant instead of a capital-hungry rocket company. If the buildout works, the valuation could look genius. If it stalls, it’s a very expensive trip to orbit.