alt Hacker News> SpaceX is trading at a whopping 94x revenue. This deal increases SpaceX's revenue by $11 billion per year. If SpaceX maintains this revenue multiplier, then the single deal boosts SpaceX's valuation by 94 x 11 billion = $1 trillion dollars.
That final number doesn't make sense: if you're trading shares at $X revenue, increasing the revenue by $Y multiplier doesn't increase the share price by the same multiplier.
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IshKebab • today at 1:52 PM
You're right. Share price isn't based purely on a multiplier of current revenue.
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Sure it might not stay at 94x. But as long as SpaceX trades above 20x revenue, Google makes money from this deal.
And the bigger play is this deal pushes SpaceX over the finish line for S&P 500 inclusion. That's worth tens of billions for everyone involved.