Needham raised the firm’s price target on Rocket Lab (RKLB) to $90 from $63 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares after the Space Development Agency announced contracts for its Tracking Layer Tranche 3, for which the company was awarded $805M. This award, the largest in company history, “strongly validates” Rocket Lab as a defense prime, its burgeoning Space Systems segment, and more than doubles segment backlog, the analyst tells investors.
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