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Rocket Lab stock sentiment
Retail's favorite listed space stock, where every launch, contract win, and Neutron update is traded in real time.
How Quantral scores RKLB sentiment
Quantral reads the public conversation about Rocket Lab across finance X, Reddit, and Substack, then distills it into a single signal score from 0 to 100. It is not a vote count: a hundred low-quality posts can matter less than a handful from voices with a real track record.
The score weighs how much RKLB is being discussed against how strong and credible that discussion is. The sentiment behind it is broken out across positive, negative, and noise, and the people driving it are weighted by their own record, so the loudest take is not automatically the one that moves the number.
The live RKLB score, its sentiment split, and the most recent mentions update continuously in the app. The monthly counts on this page are a dated snapshot of what Quantral tracked, not the live feed.
@DeepValueBagger· Aug 10Rocket Lab Q2 Earnings is out. Meets expectation, but zoom out - the company is executing, high YoY growth, growing backlog. $RKLB
Why are people saying RKLB had a bad earnings report? They beat estimates everywhere besides EPS and it was off 0.01 cent
Chatter
Public posts about Rocket Lab across the sources Quantral reads, since May 2026.
As of 29 September 2026, see the latest feed in the app.
The RKLB conversation, month by month
Each month, Quantral turns the Rocket Lab chatter it tracks into a recap, highlighting what shaped the conversation and who argued each side. It's the same recap shown in the app.
Rocket Lab beat Q1 revenue estimates with $200.3M and guided higher for Q2 at $225-240M on May 7, sparking bragging on r/wallstreetbets about shares bought under $5 now hitting $96. Late in the month, posters celebrated news of an $816M government contract, with some predicting a push past $200.
Rocket Lab announced a definitive deal to acquire IRDM for $54/share in a cash-and-stock transaction on the 29th, after earlier that month delivering a Space Force launch in under 17 hours. On Reddit, traders bragged about loading up on 50 strike calls before the IRDM news and said the $8B deal would give Starlink and Amazon real competition.
Rocket Lab won a $266 million U.S. Air Force contract in late July, shifting chatter after a rough start. The stock had dropped nearly 50% from its highs, drawing bearish posts on r/wallstreetbets and X, but the contract and Neutron bookings sparked hopes of recovery.
Rocket Lab reported record Q2 revenue of $234M, up 62% year-over-year, and secured a dedicated Neutron launch contract from Kepler Communications. On r/wallstreetbets and X, posters debated entry points around earnings, with one user gambling 360K in calls while others discussed stop-losses and a dip recovery. The mix of profit-taking and adding positions at $67 kept chatter steady without euphoria.
Rocket Lab protested NASA's Mars contract award to Blue Origin; on Reddit, early losses on calls gave way to talk of a $12,000 target and a deal, while an X influencer named it a pick at $67.
This month's recap is building in the app
See all inside the appRKLB insider trading
| Insider | Title | Trade | 10b5-1 plan | Filed | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam C. Spice | Chief Financial Officer | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Sep 4, 2026 | $4.2M | |
| Adam C. Spice | Chief Financial Officer | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Sep 4, 2026 | $4.6M | |
| Arjun Kampani | SVP & General Counsel | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Aug 28, 2026 | $305,882 | |
| Arjun Kampani | SVP & General Counsel | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Aug 28, 2026 | $96,304 | |
| Frank Klein | Chief Operations Officer | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Aug 28, 2026 | $1.0M |
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab Corporation provides launch services and space systems, including launch vehicles, spacecraft components, and mission management for civil, defense, and commercial customers.
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The voices behind the RKLB conversation
The tracked accounts posting about Rocket Lab most since May 2026. Each one carries a public track record in the app, graded on how its past calls played out.
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The app has the live answer: a 0 to 100 RKLB score that updates as new posts come in, built from recent volume, the sentiment behind it, and the credibility of who is posting. The numbers on this page are dated snapshots.
Quantral does not publish price targets or forecasts. A high score means the RKLB conversation is loud and credible right now, nothing more. Quantral does grade the people who post RKLB price targets and predictions: every tracked voice carries a public record of how its past calls played out.
Between May 2026 and August 2026, $RKLB drew 1,076 tracked mentions across the curated finance voices Quantral reads on X, Reddit, and Substack. That total counts only the sources Quantral follows, not the whole internet.
Three inputs: how much Rocket Lab is being discussed, the sentiment of that discussion, and the track record of the accounts driving it. The sharpest swings come when the tracked voices have something to argue over: an earnings date, a product announcement, a sudden price move.
Quantral reads a curated set of finance voices on X, Reddit, and Substack. It scores every RKLB mention from those sources for sentiment and grades each account on how its past calls worked out, so a proven record counts for more than a loud one.
This page holds the dated trail: monthly recaps of the Rocket Lab conversation and the tracked voices posting about it most. The live RKLB feed is in the app, where Quantral scores each new mention as it lands.
In the last 12 months RKLB insiders filed 213 open-market sales worth $673.4 million and no purchases. 84% of those sales were pre-planned 10b5-1 sales. These are Form 4 filings with the SEC, open-market trades only: option exercises, grants and gifts are left out.
A 10b5-1 plan is a trading plan an insider sets up in advance, while not holding material nonpublic information, that schedules future trades by date, price or formula. Trades then run on the plan, so a planned sale says less about the insider's current view than a discretionary one. In the last 12 months, 84% of RKLB insider sales were made under one.
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