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One rocket to rule them all
Pivotal Research came out swinging on SpaceX, starting coverage with a Buy rating and a $220 price target. That’s the kind of Wall Street thumbs-up that makes traders sit up a little straighter — but in this case, the whole argument comes with a massive asterisk attached.
The entire story is Starship reuse
Analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak basically said the bull case rests on one stubborn engineering problem: Starship has to be reusable, and not just in the ‘we landed it once for a nice photo op’ sense. He’s talking about 20 to 50 flights per vehicle, with fast and cheap refurbishment between launches.
That matters because if SpaceX can make that math work, launch costs could fall enough to open a much bigger market. If it can’t, the analyst’s own words suggest the company is a very different animal — and a much smaller one at that.
A binary bet, with a little supply drama on the side
The target isn’t even the most aggressive on the Street; Benzinga says the average analyst price target sits around $226. So this isn’t some moonshot call from a lone degenerate in the back of the room. It’s more like Wall Street saying, ‘We like the rocket, but please, for the love of gravity, make it reusable.’
There’s also an overhang to keep in mind: roughly 319 million SpaceX shares are set to unlock on Wednesday, which could add near-term supply pressure just as investors are re-pricing the stock around the Starship story.
Big picture
For SpaceX, this is the classic high-stakes growth-stock setup: one technical breakthrough can justify a jaw-dropping valuation, while one stubborn bottleneck can make the whole model wobble. Investors aren’t just buying rockets here — they’re buying the future version of the business.