Up 500% in the Past Year: Why Investors Are Falling in Love With This Hypergrowth SpaceX Competitor [Yahoo! Finance]
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (RKLB)
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Source: Yahoo! Finance
It has been an incredible run for the stock, led by its increasing performance in space launches and satellite manufacturing, helping it compete with the dominant player in the sector: SpaceX. Here's why investors are uber-optimistic about SpaceX competitor Rocket Lab, and why the stock is up around 500% in the last year. Are You Missing The Morning Scoop? Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day. Sign Up For Free » SpaceX has a dominant position in private commercial rocket launches. In fact, just a few years ago, the Elon Musk-led company was virtually the only Western company able to reliably launch rockets into orbit. What happened a few years ago? Rocket Lab began competing for contracts. In order to enter the market, Rocket Lab targeted rocket launches with much smaller payloads (i.e., the mass on board) compared to SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. This led it to produce the Electron rocket, which can take small and experimental payloads to orbit. El
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- Rocket Lab (RKLB) Takes Off 25.3% on Rocket Developments [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Mission Success: Rocket Lab Deploys First Dedicated Launch for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)GlobeNewswire
- Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) Announces Successful Qualification Testing for its Hungry Hippo [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) was downgraded by analysts at <a style="font-weight:bold" href="https://www.wallstreetzen.com/newsletters/zen-ratings?ticker=RKLB&utm_campaign=getratings&utm_medium=online&utm_source=MarketBeat">Wall Street Zen</MarketBeat
- Rocket Lab (RKLB) Soars 10.45% Ahead of New Mission Launch [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
RKLB
Earnings
- 11/10/25 - Beat
RKLB
Sec Filings
- 12/12/25 - Form 144
- 12/5/25 - Form 4
- 12/4/25 - Form 144
- RKLB's page on the SEC website