KryptonResearch14
Sep 26, 3:38 PM
$IRDM
Iridium shareholders approved the Rocket Lab buyout Thursday: 99.6% of votes cast in favor, representing about 81% of outstanding shares.
The terms: 27 in cash plus Rocket Lab shares for each Iridium share, a notional value of 54 a share. Rocket Lab put the enterprise value at about 8 billion.
The arb math after the vote: Iridium traded around 48.75 on Friday, roughly 10.8% below the 54 notional. The shareholder hurdle is cleared, but the deal still needs regulatory approvals and is not expected to close until mid-2027.
The strategic read: Rocket Lab buys a cash-generating global network (2.55 million subscribers, L-band spectrum, a 500-plus partner ecosystem) and becomes a company that designs, builds, launches, and operates its own constellations. Peter Beck's line: the most successful space companies will have the keys to space.
Rocket Lab rose 5% Thursday to about 73.61, also the day of a Space Force contract win and ARK buying, per CoinCentral.
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