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Not enough cash-flow history to value this one with our method.
Fundamentals snapshot
SATL · NCM · Industrials · Aerospace & Defense
Current price
$6.17
52-week range
$1.25 - $12.00
Market cap
$948.58M
One-glance verdict
Not enough cash-flow history to value this one with our method.
Balance sheet
Net cash $16.32M. Interest coverage shows how many times profit covers the interest bill.
What stands out
What this company does
Satellogic builds and operates its own network of satellites that take high-resolution pictures of Earth from space. The company makes money selling this imagery and data analysis to governments and large businesses, which use the information to make important decisions about things like national security, energy supplies, and food security.
Satellogic was started in 2010 by Emiliano Kargieman and Gerardo Richarte with the goal of making information from space more accessible. The company spent its first several years developing and launching its initial satellites, proving it could build and operate its own fleet. A major turning point came in 2022 when it became a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq stock exchange, which provided significant funding to expand its constellation (a group of satellites working together). More recently, the company officially relocated to the United States to better serve government and defense customers.
Satellogic designs, builds, and operates a large fleet of small satellites that take high-resolution pictures of the Earth. Think of it as a company that owns very powerful cameras in space, which it can point at almost any location on the planet. It then sells this imagery and data analysis to governments and businesses who need to monitor specific assets, track changes over time, or gain insights into things like agriculture, infrastructure, and environmental conditions. Because Satellogic builds its own satellites, it can do this at a lower cost than many competitors.
This is the company's primary and more established business, where customers buy access to satellite imagery and data insights. Clients, such as a government monitoring its borders or an agricultural company checking crop health, pay for images of specific locations or subscribe to services that provide regular updates. This part of the business focuses on selling information as a service, and it has been the largest source of the company's sales.
This is a newer and rapidly growing part of the business where Satellogic sells entire satellites or dedicated use of its satellite network directly to governments. This is often called a "sovereign" capability, meaning a country can own and control its own space-based intelligence assets without sharing them. Instead of just buying data, the customer, typically a national government, pays Satellogic a much larger amount to have its own dedicated "eye in the sky." This segment is becoming a significant driver of revenue growth for the company.
The company's main focus is on expanding its "sovereign" offerings, providing entire satellite systems to allied governments who want direct control over their own intelligence gathering. Management believes this is a major growth area as more countries seek independent space capabilities. At the same time, Satellogic is investing heavily in its next-generation "Merlin" constellation, which aims to remap the entire planet daily. This would allow for a shift from taking pictures on request to providing a continuously updated, searchable map of the world for monitoring global activities in near real-time.
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Is it cheap or expensive?
We couldn't calculate a fair value right now.
Is it drowning in debt?
Net cash $16.3M - more cash than debt. Interest coverage -2386.1x.
Satellogic Inc.'s profit covers its interest bill about 0.0 times over. which is weaker than most peers shown here and 4 peers sit below 1x, which is the danger zone where profit does not fully cover the interest bill.
Total debt $96.49M Interest coverage -2,386.08x This is the baseline the peer rows are being compared against.
Total debt $498.62M Interest coverage -27.67x Neither company has much profit cushion over interest right now.
Total debt $221.33M Interest coverage -3.14x Neither company has much profit cushion over interest right now.
Total debt $9.69M Interest coverage -11.71x Neither company has much profit cushion over interest right now.
Total debt $133.69M Interest coverage -8.64x Neither company has much profit cushion over interest right now.
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