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As Wall Street works its way through second-quarter earnings reports, investors are getting a closer look at first-half performance from the space sector — and setting expectations for the second half of the year.
Wall Street continues to be jazzed about the opportunity in the direct-to-device satellite market, but Iridium cautioned that it will take time for the nascent vertical to mature.
Most of the other space stocks will report results over the first two weeks of August (aside from Planet , which follows a fiscal year calendar, and Mynaric , Satellogic , Intuitive Machines and Sidus Space ).
As a guide for the upcoming Q2 space results, I'm roughly separating companies into two groups: No surprises wanted, and good surprises needed.
Persons:
CNBC's Michael Sheetz, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman
Organizations:
Boeing, Northrop, Iridium, Barclays, Fed