With $1,000, at SpaceX’s closing price earlier this week, you could buy six shares of the famous space company and have a bit of change left over. The question is, of course, whether you would want to own SpaceX<\/a>. <\/p>\n Those six shares would confer very minor ownership of a very massive company active in a cluster of pushing-the-envelope activities. In fact, its name is somewhat misleading, since, in addition to space exploration, it also builds data centers, operates a satellite broadband\/telecom network, manages a high-profile social media network (X, formerly Twitter), and develops artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> models. <\/p>\n This makes SpaceX rather sprawling and not a little ungainly. In a way, it’s a company that’s a bit all over the place, reflecting the frequently mercurial personality of its founder, CEO, and north star, Elon Musk. <\/p>\n That said, all those activities are at the forefront of current consumer tastes and desires. Only one, though, makes a profit. <\/p>\n The company divides its business not all that cleanly into three reporting units. Connectivity (containing the Starlink satellite network) earned nearly $11.4 billion in revenue in 2025. It did so by providing its around-the-Earth telecom services and necessary hardware to a broad range of clients willing to pay up for constant connectivity. Operating profitability was also high, at $4.4 billion. <\/p>\n The other two company divisions were deep in the red, though. The capital-intensive space segment generated nearly $4.1 billion in revenue but, due to heavy investments, posted an operating loss of $657 million. The AI unit is spending buckets of capital to build next-generation data centers. Although it brought in $3.2 billion in revenue, its operating loss was chasm-deep at almost $6.4 billion. <\/p>\n All told, SpaceX as a whole earned just under $18.7 billion in 2025. Glancing below the operating profit\/loss line on the income statement, the annual net loss was more than $4.9 billion. <\/p>\n Big spender <\/p>\n Investors should bear in mind, though, that relatively early-stage companies habitually post steep operating and\/or net losses as they spend capital to build presence and scale. <\/p>\n So should you part with most of that $1,000 to own six shares of SpaceX? Despite the roaring success of Starlink and the AI unit’s recent signing of a $1.25 billion-per-month contract to supply processing power from two of its data centers to AI developer Anthropic, the company’s capital expenditures will likely remain immense for quite some time. <\/p>\n With that, impatient investors will likely start bailing in the coming years. That’s reason enough for me to sit on the sidelines for now. <\/p>\n Should you buy stock in Space Exploration Technologies right now? <\/p>\n Before you buy stock in Space Exploration Technologies, consider this: <\/p>\n The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the\u00a010 best stocks<\/a> for investors to buy now\u2026 and Space Exploration Technologies wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. <\/p>\n Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation,\u00a0you’d have $418,761!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,195,804!* <\/p>\n Now, it’s worth noting\u00a0Stock Advisor’s total average return is 918% \u2014 a market-crushing outperformance compared to 208% for the S&P 500.\u00a0Don’t miss the latest top 10 list, available with\u00a0Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors. <\/p>\n See the 10 stocks \u00bb<\/a> <\/p>\n *Stock Advisor returns as of July 3, 2026. <\/p>\n Eric Volkman<\/a> has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/a> Image source: Getty Images. Holding a half-dozen <\/p>\n