i'm not saying they will justify that market cap, but Tesla always hit market cap numbers years before they could possibly be justified and once they were justified the stock price would go right up again into nonsense territory
Right, I mean Tesla had generated lifetime revenue of 150mm, SpaceX did >18 billion last year. They have a monopoly on cheap space flight, just signed a big data center contract with a big user of compute (and built that data center quickly), have good internet service, etc etc
Seems worth at least 100x, and it doesn't seem surprising that it gets an extra 10x
Revenue is not a basis for valuation otherwise Walmart would be more valuable than Nvidia, Apple and Google combined. And I agree that SpaceX would be correctly valued at 180b.
Space TAM is not so large. Starlink ARPU is decreasing fast as well. And they rent the data center because Grok doesn't have enough usage, overall it's a bad usage of capital.
> Revenue is not a basis for valuation otherwise Walmart would be more valuable than Nvidia, Apple and Google
This is a confused take
Revenue is an excellent basis for comparison of valuations if the growth rates are similar. Nvidia is worth what it is because of its vertical growth rate
If company A makes a 100U this year and I think it's going to double by the end of the year (to 200U) I would rather hold shares of that than company B which makes 150U per year and it's growing 10% yoy.
Next year I'll have a company making 200U, whereas B will only be making 165U. So I would pay more for A today than I would for B.
As an aside, Apple and Google sum to more revenue than Walmart and have better growth. So your claim was correct five years ago and the growth rates have literally shown you why Apple and Google have higher market caps
I haven't even gotten to explain the space TAM, but suffice to say black car tam was small before Uber. (What % of black car cabs did Uber provide in their first year offering the service)
No you are missing the point. Walmart doesn't have the tech premium because Walmart has low margins, whereas Apple and Google have high ones. This is why unit economics matters.
Growth is important, but only if you can keep a high margin on the products you sell : it's not the case with Starlink (the main profitable activity), ARPU is down 23% yoy, at 66$ in 2026. Compare it to 99$ in 2023.
Last point, growth in market caps have diminishing returns, and it's obvious that it's easier to do a x100 if you start from 1b than 1750b. SpaceX runs the classic strategy of "high MC, low float" that has ruined many altcoins in crypto for the benefit of insiders who will want to sell to realize their gains.