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Rocket Lab CFO: Iridium acquisition doubles company size, adds 'hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow' at close
“Essentially, if you took those two businesses today, you're doubling the size of the company, generating hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow... I think they don't quite understand the leverage that business is going to bring to us.”
Why it matters
Management explicitly claims the market has not priced in the immediate financial transformation from Iridium — margin uplift and immediate FCF rather than a multi-year organic build.
Investment implication
Directly relevant to RKLB valuation models post-close; the claim that positive adjusted EBITDA flips the quarter after Neutron's first launch, independent of Iridium, gives a concrete profitability timeline.