Rocket Lab (RKLB) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- -$0.12
- Estimate
- -$0.07
- Surprise
- -80.6%
- Revenue (period 2026-09-30)
- $267.8M
- Score today
- 5.3/10
Revenue source: xbrl.
How the report landed
Rocket Lab (RKLB) reported a wider loss than forecast — adjusted EPS of -$0.12 against the -$0.07 estimate (a 80.6% shortfall).
Coverage in the report window
- Space Stock Tracker: Moon Contracts, Earnings and Midterms Rock the Sector — benzinga, 2026-11-10
- Barclays Maintains Overweight on Rocket Lab, Lowers Price Target to $82 — benzinga, 2026-11-10
- IonQ Shares Fall With Space Stocks: What's Going On? — benzinga, 2026-11-10
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates RKLB Sell at 5.3/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
1 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's -80.6% surprise compares with a -4.2% four-quarter average.
What argues against it
- Concentration risk — Supplier: single vendor composites and inertial measurement units
- Quality below floor (2.7 < 4.0)
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $58.93
- Price target
- $91.94
- Stop
- $54.80
- Upside to target
- +56.0%
- Reward-to-risk
- 3.7:1
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-11-10 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
RKLB at TrendMatrix's latest read
Industrial quarters are order-book stories — backlog and book-to-bill color how the market reads the reported number.
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Market cap
- $37.64B
- P/E (fwd)
- 1023.8
- 52-week range
- $37.57–$151.00
- Off 52-week high
- 61.0%
- RSI (14)
- 56
- Volume vs avg
- 0.79×
- Score today
- 5.3/10