Cathie Wood’s Ark purchasing Rocket Lab stock, an area SPAC

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Cathie Wood's Ark buying Rocket Lab stock, a space SPAC

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Rocket Lab

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest is dipping back into an area SPAC, with 2 of the company’s funds purchasing up stock in Rocket Lab the previous 2 days.

Ark’s exchange-traded funds ARKQ and ARKX– which concentrate on self-governing innovation and area expedition, respectively– purchased about 729,000 shares of Rocket Lab in trades on Monday and Tuesday, the company divulged.

While Ark’s Rocket Lab position is fairly little, worth about $3 million overall, the purchases mark the very first current area SPAC stock the company has actually owned given that offering its position in Virgin Galactic in May2021

Both ETFs likewise have substantial positions in Iridium, a satellite interactions business that went public through a SPAC handle September 2009– over a years prior to the craze of area SPACs.

The purchases by Wood’s company likewise follow Rocket Lab hosting a financier day in New York, where it provided updates on the development of its Electron and Neutron rockets, along with its area systems organization

Rocket Lab stock was up 3% in trading on Wednesday from its previous close of $4.19 a share. Like a number of its area SPAC peers, Rocket Lab shares have actually been struck hard lately, falling about 72% over the past 12 months.

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