Here's Why Intuitive Machines Stock Is a buy Before May 14

But that’s not all. In fact, it’s not even the most important reason why investors should want to own Intuitive Machines stock.

The most important reason to be optimistic about Intuitive Machines stock is the fact that NASA awarded the company a much bigger $4.8 billion contract to build and operate a space communications network between Earth and the Moon for the next 10 years. When that contract was first announced, it sparked a four-month stock-price run that lifted Intuitive shares as high as $23 a share, nearly three times what the stock sells for today.

And that contract has absolutely nothing to do with whether Intuitive’s landers land straight up or face-plant when they reach the Moon. It’s a completely different line of business and worth a lot more money to Intuitive than it will get from launching landers to the Moon at $100 million a pop.

Intuitive Machines reported first-quarter earnings more than a month ago, meaning investors still have a couple of months to wait before the next earnings report rolls around — probably on or about May 14. (In 2024, May 14 was the date the company reported Q2 earnings. Although Intuitive hasn’t announced a date for this year’s Q2 report, logically, it should arrive around about the same date as last year.)

Once that earnings report does come out, I’ll personally be very interested to hear what management has to say about any efforts it’s making to re-design Nova-C to ensure that the “third time’s the charm,” and its next landing attempt in 2026 will be more successful than its two previous tries. But I’ll be even more interested in hearing about the company’s timeline for rolling out its Near Space Network for NASA and starting to rake in revenue for providing communications between Earth and the Moon.

I won’t be the only one listening in, however, and my hunch is that, so long as management gives good answers to both questions, its stock will perform well even in the absence of profits (which no one is expecting Intuitive to report for another couple of years after all). In the meantime, I plan to spend the next couple of months waiting and watching for pullbacks in the stock, such as the big one we saw recently when the stock market panicked over President Trump’s tariffs plan.

It’s precisely because I expect Intuitive Machines stock to go up after earnings that I want to buy the stock on the cheap before those earnings come out.

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Rich Smith has positions in Intuitive Machines. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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