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5 min readSpaceX held its first earnings call as a public company, and the stock dropped more than 7% after hours, briefly touching 8% down. The headline numbers looked decent—revenue doubled year over year, driven by Starlink growth and a big compute deal with Anthropic and Google. But investors sold anyway. The episode walks through why, focusing on the gap between the company's enormous market cap and the concrete, near-term business reality.
The revenue story and the AI pivot
SpaceX reported $4 billion in sales for the second quarter of 2025, up from $2 billion a year earlier, with nearly $2 billion of that growth coming from its AI division. Starlink revenue grew $1.7 billion. The company still lost $544 million in the quarter, though that was an improvement from a $1 billion loss the year before. CFO Brett Johnson said the company has an additional $6.7 billion of cloud services revenue under contract over a six-month period and believes that once it fully integrates AI startup Cursor, SpaceX will reach a $100 billion annualized revenue run rate.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Open: The SpaceX Earnings Surprise** - JJ introduces the first SpaceX earnings call as a public company and notes the stock dropped over 8% after-hours despite seemingly positive headlines.
- 2 (01:35) **Revenue Breakdown: AI Compute vs. Starlink** - SpaceX doubled revenue to $7.8 billion, driven by an AI compute deal with Anthropic/Google and Starlink growth, but the business model faces scrutiny.
- 3 (03:30) **The Valuation Problem: A $1.65 Trillion Market Cap** - Despite the revenue jump, the company still lost $544 million in the quarter, and its market cap remains astronomically high relative to current earnings.
- 4 (05:00) **Elon’s Grand Claims vs. Investor Skepticism** - Musk goes further than the CFO, claiming the $100 billion run rate is a given and the company will likely exceed it, while simultaneously revealing massive capital expenditures.
- 5 (06:26) **The Core Thesis: It’s All About AI and Orbital Data Centers** - The entire total addressable market for SpaceX relies on the unproven concept of orbital data centers and AI, which JJ calls "pie in the sky" and "sci-fi future."
- 6 (08:07) **Segment Analysis: The $47.5 Billion Backlog** - The company reported a massive backlog, which analysts believe is mostly driven by AI compute deals, but the most important deals (Anthropic, Google) were not captured in the print.
- 7 (09:02) **Elon’s Robotics and Connectivity Thesis** - Musk argues that the market is underestimating the connectivity demand from AI and robotics, framing satellites as "robots" in a larger ecosystem.
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Show Notes
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what happening with SpaceX Earnings and Space Earnings Call with Elon, for the stock to drop nearly 8% after hours. What did investors not like about SpaceX earnings?
Referenced video:
SpaceX crashes after Elon call | Chris Norlund: https://youtu.be/qm77VRKXdeY
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