{"id":14884,"date":"2026-08-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:39","slug":"spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14884","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    George Hammond, Financial Times<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 5, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk\u2019s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX surpassed analysts\u2019 expectations in Tuesday\u2019s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts\u2019 estimates of $6.82 billion and up 92 percent from a year earlier. It posted a net loss of about $541 million, better than estimates of $2.12 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But shares in SpaceX fell 10 percent in early trading after it reported capital expenditure of almost $16 billion on AI, double the previous quarter and well above Wall Street\u2019s expectations. It said spending would persist at current levels for at least two more quarters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hammond, Financial Times &bull; August 5, 2026 SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk\u2019s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors. SpaceX surpassed analysts\u2019 expectations in Tuesday\u2019s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts\u2019 estimates of $6.82<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=14884\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}