Rocket Lab
End-to-end space company providing launch, spacecraft, and on-orbit management services. Agreed June 2026 to acquire Iridium (IRDM) for about $8B, closing expected mid-2027 Visit website
CONVICTION SCORE
WHY THIS SCORE
Methodology- Wins in the Feed: not measured: 1 win and 1 setback among 9 sourced items about this company in the Feed in 90 days, fewer than the 3 wins or setbacks this lens needs to mean anything
- Orbital launches: 84, 22 orbital attempts, 22 succeeded, in 365 days as Rocket Lab; 40 a year is a full lens
- Revenue growth: 69, +53% a year, trailing twelve months (lower than the quarter)
- Ladder 18: on 2 rungs (1 done, 0 in progress, 1 pending): A product made in orbit returns to Earth (part); Something launched from Mars returns to Earth (part)
- Own timelines 90: execution velocity On Track, editorial and ledgered
- Feed: 1 positive, 7 neutral, 1 negative in 90 days (+10)
- Form 4: 0 open-market purchases, 0 sales outside a 10b5-1 plan, in 90 days (+0)
- Breadth 50: 1 sector
- Scarcity 0: Launch & Transport has 11 covered names
No editorial adjustment. A reviewer may move a computed score by up to 10 points with a reason, recorded on the scorecard.
Inputs frozen Oct 23, 2026 from the site's own feeds: the Feed and Form 4 over 90 days, launches over 365 days, revenue over the trailing year. Next review by Jan 21, 2027. The share price and analyst ratings are not inputs.
DETAILS
SECTORS
LAUNCHES
Every Rocket Lab launchRocket Lab, orbital launches in the last 12 months: 22 attempts, 22 successes, 0 failures. Last on Oct 23, 2026.
Launch Library 2, updated Oct 30. The conviction score's launch measure reads this record as frozen at its last re-score.
PEERS
Launch & TransportScore, then day change (live quotes). Nearest by sector, then by score.
HISTORY
ScorecardRescored on Oct 23, 2026 from the site's own feeds. Strongest: what it has done (77). Weakest: how much of the space economy it covers (30). Methodology ↗
Set from the live market cap of $37.4B on 2026-09-02; the February seed had drifted. Finnhub via fundamentals.json ↗
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