SpaceX Announces Q3 Results, but Figures Are Not in Transcript

SpaceX’s third-quarter financial results were announced on Oct. 20, but the available earnings-call transcript excerpt does not include the company’s revenue, earnings or spending figures. That leaves the results themselves unreported in the material available here, despite a scheduled webcast and several published forecasts ahead of the release. SpaceX had scheduled its results for after the U.S. market close, with an earnings webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET. At the start of the call, investor-relations head Andrea Williams said the results had been announced shortly after 3 p.m. Texas time and that related materials were on the company’s investor-relations website. The excerpt ends before executives’ prepared remarks or financial details. Before the release, an analyst estimate cited by Reuters and attributed to LSEG put quarterly revenue at about $12.74 billion and earnings at 14 cents per share. Another article gave a different consensus estimate: $13.02 billion in revenue and 17 cents in normalized earnings per share. These were estimates from different sources and measures, not SpaceX-reported results. The main focus for investors was how the company’s rapidly growing...