Barron's reverses its bearish call on SpaceX stock

Sep 14, 2026

Wall Street has flipped from bearish to bullish on SpaceX as its AI compute business grows far faster than anyone expected — good news for long-term holders, less so for anyone who bought near the post-IPO highs.

  • Barron's publicly admitted it was wrong to call SpaceX worth $90 a share shortly before the IPO.
  • What changed: instead of burning cash chasing the best AI models, SpaceX now rents out data center compute and sells AI apps like Grokbot — and the contracts keep piling up.
  • Profit forecasts for 2030 have exploded roughly fivefold, with most of that coming from AI infrastructure rather than rockets or Starlink.
  • Renting compute to others while owning the app layer is the smarter bet, since cutting-edge AI models are turning into a cheap commodity.
  • The stock still looks cheap on those new numbers, trading below its growth rate — though buyers from the post-IPO run-up are underwater today.

Outlook: If the compute contracts and fat margins hold, the stock has a long runway into 2030, but anything near current levels only pays off for investors willing to wait years.

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