$ASTS
Recap of yesterday's quarterly update and management call. I haven't reviewed any of Spacemob's analysis yet so some of this may seem repetitive.
Overall progress of building + launching satellites looks solid. There has been some ambiguity about the design, build,
Kevin Mak
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- $ASTS Turn up the volume. ASTS is crankin' Overall very happy with the progress that they articulated on the call. They have $1B of liquidity and a ~$1B capex plan for the next 12-18 months. How's that for aggressive? This "burn the ships" strategy is, imo, absolutely the way
- Signing off for now spacemob🫡, I'll continue to tell you to eat your vegetables even if you keep throwing them back at me. I genuinely hope you all reach the generational wealth that you're aiming to achieve. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
- ASTS short interest has been completely obliterated. On the surface, 74m down to 36m is 38m shares covered. At a rough VWAP of $42/share, that's about $1.6 Billion dollars of ASTS shares that were purchased by short sellers over 4 weeks. Even if you take out the convert (9m) and$ASTS Short interest plummeting. This is kind of interesting because the share swap closed yesterday 7/1. For the most part, it takes a day or two for the "plumbing" to work and get shares issued, settled, returned to lender, and reported as disappearing from short float. On
- $ASTS Extremely impressive strength on the tape today, despite the ATM offering and the general malaise around retail/momo/growth stocks, AND the Scotia downgrade. I don't think it's short covering or momentum trading, I think it's catch-up buying on the fundamental/story side.
- ASTS headline is mostly benign- slightly positive. They have outstanding convertible debt. They worked out a deal with some debt holders to convert their debt into shares early (now instead of years from now). This cuts their annual cash interest, but they gave a sweetener
- $asts Fundamentally this convertible debt offering isn't bullish or bearish. The company needs $2-4B over the next 3 years to build out the constellation. They aren't going to get all of it via ExIm non-dilutive financing. Most of it will come from equity issuances, debt
- Short sellers had a one day break on ASTS, they’re not gonna like this mornings PR. Back to covering and running the price up. I like how they wait till 9:30am to start buying. Fun prediction: $44.63 high by 10am.
- $ASTS Okay seriously though, there's really nothing in the call that is particularly surprising, bullish or bearish. And this is the trend of my usual discussion posts. Both the bulls and bears are hanging onto every Semicolon in every FCC filing trying to pull a thread in




