On August 19, Intuitive Machines declined 8.8% in regular trading, trading at $17.76/share, with turnover of $52.66 million. The stock remains under pressure from its Q2 earnings report released last week, compounded by broad weakness across the aerospace sector.
The company reported a Q2 loss of $0.29 per diluted share, significantly wider than the analyst consensus estimate of a $0.07 loss — a miss of over 300%. Revenue came in at $206.2 million, below the Street estimate of approximately $220.8 million, though it represented a 310% year-over-year increase. The company maintained full-year revenue guidance of $900 million to $1 billion. Backlog reached a record $1.8 billion at quarter-end, with IM-4 mission costs contributing to the wider loss.
Despite a series of positive catalysts — including authorization for a $600 million-plus multi-satellite communications infrastructure program, a NASA EAGLE-VSWIR earth science mission contract, a $148.3 million NASA lunar lander award, and a Stifel upgrade to Buy with a $26 target — the magnitude of the Q2 earnings miss continues to weigh on sentiment. The broader aerospace sector also traded lower, with Rocket Lab declining 6.01% on the same session.
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