AST stock is up 13x in four months. The smart move now is (for AST) to sell its stock.From an initial public offering (IPO) price near $10 in 2021 to its post-IPO nadir closer to $2 earlier this year, direct-to-cell (DTC) satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile (ASTS 1.27%) has taken investors on quite the wild ride these past few years.Thanks largely to support from big telecom names like AT&T (T 2.66%) and Verizon (VZ 2.75%), however, AST stock went parabolic in 2024. The company's gone from oper ...

There are 3.5 billion reasons to get to know AST SpaceMobile.Long-term investors shouldn't make decisions about buying or selling a stock based on a single event. Data from a quarterly earnings report, for example, should be monitored, reviewed, and added to an investor's mental database. But a quarterly report is just a single snapshot of the company's business.Yet in the case of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS -0.72%), there is one upcoming event to which investors looking for a growth opportunity should be paying ...

Can a fast-growing (but money-losing) start-up outcompete the biggest name in space?If you know anything at all about SpaceX and its Starlink program, you probably know that it's Elon Musk's master plan to bring satellite internet service to everyone on Earth -- and magnify SpaceX's profits in the process, so as to fund his plan to colonize Mars.If you know just a little more about Starlink, you know it's already evolved beyond this original plan. The U.S. military and others are already starting to throw m ...

You may recognize the name, but do you know what the company is trying to achieve?Share prices of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS -0.72%) have skyrocketed about 460% since the start of the year. To say that the growth stock has drawn considerable investor interest would be a gross understatement. But while onlookers may be impressed with the stock's meteoric rise, many still wonder what it is exactly that the company does.Let's take a closer look at AST SpaceMobile to see what has the market so excited.The ABCs of AS ...

Investors were willing to take a chance on this highly speculative telecom company.A significant price target increase from an analyst helped send AST SpaceMobile (ASTS 4.95%) well higher on the second-to-last trading day of the week. Bulls piled into the company, a unique operator that aims to establish a broadband cellular network in space, boosting its stock price by nearly 5% on the day. By contrast, the S&P 500 index only traded flat across the session.A significant price target increase from a punditT ...

This analyst thinks AST SpaceMobile will become the leading global wireless company.Excitement is growing for AST SpaceMobile's (ASTS -8.90%) initial commercial satellite launch in the first half of September. The stock has soared in anticipation of the launch of the company's five commercial BlueBird satellites, which are in Cape Canaveral awaiting the upcoming launch window.Scotiabank analyst Andres Coello thinks investors should own AST stock for several reasons and just raised his price target from $28 ...

Will SpaceX buy AST SpaceMobile stock? Should you?AST SpaceMobile (ASTS 2.44%) stock is on the move again Monday. Today's gain is about 2.3% as of 12:20 p.m., although the stock's bopping around quite a bit, and if you blink, it might just as easily go down as up.Credit for today's turbulence goes to Scotiabank analyst Andres Graham, who this morning lifted his price target on AST stock from $28 to $45.90 -- a very precise valuation on a stock that isn't particularly easy to value (because it has no profits ...

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Those who shot for the stars early on with this space stock have been rewarded for their ambition.For those with New Year's resolutions to scoop up shares of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS 24.40%), 2024 has been a delight. AST SpaceMobile is developing a space-based broadband network, and it has seen its stock skyrocket 540% since the start of the year.But have investors who have held on to the stock since it first debuted on public markets fared as well? Let's take a look at what has driven investor sentiment for t ...

AST SpaceMobile stock has rocketed higher by more than 75% in less than a week. Here's what investors need to know.AST SpaceMobile (ASTS 16.40%) stock has continued to soar since it announced its latest business update and second-quarter results last week. The march higher began after the company reaffirmed that plans for its most critical satellite launch ever are on track.On Friday, Bank of Nova Scotia, or Scotiabank, analyst Andres Coello raised his firm's price target on the space communications company ...