RKLB Rocket Lab USA, Inc.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (RKLB) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Industrials. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Mid-channel, rising on both timeframes
Price is between the two trend lines. Nothing to act on yet.
Read from the last 12 months of history we hold: rising, drifting +50% a year. The target of US$81.55 is below the nearest ceiling (US$84.76), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$59.06 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 12 months read from
- US$59.07 β US$84.76 Rising channel, +50% a year
- Position in that channel
- 18% 0% at the floor, 100% at the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -61% from US$150.3027 May 2026 β 29 July 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company3 of 13 Aerospace & Defense peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Unsettled too close to a coin toss on the record to call
- Regained so far
- 6%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 50% of 6 comparable falls came back, typically in 253 days measured on its own peer group
The trend broke in May 2026: price fell 61% from 150.29 to 58.59 by July 2026, and has regained 6% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: βReported Earlier, Rocket Lab Secures $90M US Space Force Deal To Build Two Heimdall-Hosted GEO Satellites, Marking First GEO Satellite Production Programβ. What happens next is not settled: falls of about 61% here have come back to the old high 50% of the time (6 comparable falls), typically in 253 days, which is too close to a coin toss to price a recovery from.
Reported at the time: Reported Earlier, Rocket Lab Secures $90M US Space Force Deal To Build Two Heimdall-Hosted GEO Satellites, Marking First GEO Satellite Production Program β 22 May 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (12 months)
- Lower trend line (12 months)
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy now
US$63.71
last close Β· 16 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$67.96; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$81.55
by 6 Oct 2026
Projected move
28.0%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy β the best price available now.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 3 touches on the ceiling, 2 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 7 times so far, reaching target 71% of the time β too few to mean much on its own. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 21% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 20% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here β measured over 136 stretches of this stockβs own history, since the published entry itself is too rare here to size a target from, reached 74% of the time, typically in 21 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
- Upper line touches
- 3
- Lower line touches
- 2
- Fit confidence
- 62%
- Fitted
- 15 Sept 2026
About Rocket Lab USA, Inc.
Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a prominent aerospace firm established in 2006. This company delivers a comprehensive suite of space-related services and hardware, primarily catering to the space and defense industries. Their operations encompass orbital launch capabilities, advanced spacecraft engineering and construction, production of various spacecraft components, and sophisticated on-orbit management services, including full constellation management. Rocket Lab is known for developing and producing a range of launch vehicles, from small to medium-class rockets. Key products include the highly successful Electron small orbital launch vehicle and the versatile Photon satellite platforms, both of which they design, manufacture, and market. Furthermore, the company is actively developing the larger Neutron launch vehicle, capable of carrying 8-ton payloads. Beyond manufacturing, they also conduct remote launch operations and craft specialized components and subsystems for both their Photon spacecraft family and the broader commercial spacecraft market. Their diverse clientele spans commercial enterprises, major aerospace contractors, and governmental entities.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- CEO
- Sir Peter Beck
- Employees
- 2,600
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$36.44B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 2.61
- Avg volume
- 23.93M
- Revenue per share
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- 52-week range
- 37.57-151
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
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Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.