@garp1991@GWYMoe5959@LeoCapital_01 It's going to be a trillion dollar plus company. Go chase tiny pumps and when you look at the stock in 5 years you'll wish you'd just sat on your hands.
4x oversubscribed means 75% of institutional demand goes unfilled. Hundreds of fund managers who spent two weeks learning about D2D from the roadshow won't get their SpaceX allocation. That money needs to go somewhere. They'll look for public market D2D exposure. There's only one pure-play carrier-aligned D2D company trading publicly at $35B instead of $1.75T.
The SpaceX IPO just created a pipeline of educated, allocated-out institutional buyers looking for the best D2D trade. They will all land at $ASTS .
Great commentary on the direct-to-cell market. However, it is worth pointing out that @Starlink's medium to long term goal with Starlink Mobile is NOT partnering with the terrestrial MNOs and instead is to compete directly against them, going direct to consumer.
SpaceX CFO describes "attacking terrestrial markets" from space in a recent interview linked below, and both Gwynne Shotwell and David Goldman's responses to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile's D2D joint venture are very competitive in nature.
The D2D operator partner of choice is and always will be @AST_SpaceMobile ($ASTS).
https://t.co/WLekgAWCTu
"When a dementia patient cannot walk straight, it usually indicates brain damage in the areas controlling coordination, balance, and spatial awareness. It is a common symptom of disease progression."
"I've seen drunks taking a DUI test walk a straighter line..."
No MAGA, you only have Elon Musk and Donald Trump to blame for the return of the screwworm.
The screwworm was eradicated from the US back in 1966, but due directly to DOGE cuts and staffing reductions, the deadly bugs have returned for the first time in 60 years
The Trump Administration literally cut funding for the screwworm monitoring program and the USDA animal disease program.
DOGE also laid off over a thousand employees from the USDA's animal and plant health inspection service.
And worse yet, these cuts happened just before the US lifted restrictions of Mexican cattle imports, which reversed Biden era import bans on bison, horse and cattle after an outbreak of the parasite occurred in central America.
That outbreak prompted a state of emergency in Panama and cases began spreading north through Mexico.
$ASTS: AT&T FirstNet AVP Matt Walsh discusses the importance of AST SpaceMobile’s broadband satellite coverage to America’s First Responder Network
Rollins literally asked "where are all the sterile flies?" on national television.
DOGE cut the USDA screwworm monitoring program. DOGE cut USAID's border parasite prevention program. Both happened after she was sworn in.
The sterile flies were in the budget she let get gutted. That's where they went
$ASTS yup. The market is completely asleep at the wheel not seeing TMobile is about to make a partnership with ASTS, especially after yesterday's video of SpaceX's CFO discussing going directly to the consumer and competing with MNOs, just weeks after TMobile joined ATT and Verizon in a proposed joint venture specifically for D2D connectivity. The signs couldn't be any clearer.
ASTS is on pace to have a monopoly with US MNOs, the most valuable mobile market in the world. Yet, Starlink has an implied market cap of $1T-$1.3T while ASTS is trading at $0.035T.
Yes, Starlink's implied market cap is heavily driven by their fixed broadband business, but the CFO said yesterday that connectivity's TAM is $1.6T a year or $0.740T a year for D2D/D2C.
There are only two dominant players in the D2D landscape: Starlink who is ultimately wanting to go directly to the consumer and will need low band spectrum to achieve that, and AST SpaceMobile who is working with MNOs. Effectively, a global duopoly is being made in a $740B TAM. Investors that want exposure can either pay $1T-$1.3T for Starlink Mobile or $35B for AST SpaceMobile.
It's really that simple.
*NFA
Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.
The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.
Leaving this here, in case anyone is wondering why we have screwworm in the US for the first time since the 1960s.
The DOGE stupidity from Trump and Rollins will end up COSTING taxpayers money.