5 Best Space Stocks to Buy Now

1. The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 59   

The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) is ranked first on our list of 10 best space stocks to buy now. The company makes and sells military aircraft, satellites, human space flight and launch systems, and related services. It is headquartered in Illinois. 

On August 19, investment advisory Cowen maintained an Outperform rating on The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) stock with a price target of $290, noting the shares were attractively priced keeping in mind the expected cash flow yield for the firm in 2022. 

At the end of the second quarter of 2021, 59 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $1.3 billion in The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), the same as in the preceding quarter worth $1.4 billion.

In its Q1 2020 investor letter, Miller Value Partners, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“We’ve known Boeing for a long time. It’s always been a high quality company that’s traded for a premium valuation owing to its position as a global duopoly. We’d looked at it recently after weakness due to its highly publicized Max 737 issues, but it never got cheap enough for us to pull the trigger. After the pandemic, the stock went into freefall as its customer bases’ business dried up and people worried about its liquidity. The stock fell from $338 on February 19th when the S&P hit its high to a low of $89. We bought the stock after the new CEO Dave Calhoun said publicly that it would not take government capital if it required equity dilution because it had many other options. Our average price is just above $120 where it was trading for less than 7x what it earned in 2018. It will likely take a while to normalize to those earnings levels, but this business will survive and ultimately we will own a leader in a global duopoly. Even on depressed forecasts, the company currently has about a 10-15% free cash flow yield. If and when the economy normalizes, we think Boeing could be worth more than double its current price.”

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