Our Stock of the Week is Planet Labs (PL). Planet Labs was founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists. The company has hundreds of satellites that scan the Earth’s surface on a daily basis and create over three million images per day. It currently has over 700 customers in agriculture, government, finance, etc. A recent article in Financial Times about the Ukraine situation uses images created by PL.
Plant Labs does have competition, but Needham recently set a $10.50 target on the stock and noted that it is the only company with a daily scan of the entire Earth, and it has a 5-year lead on its nearest competition. The analyst expects revenue to grow 39% in 2023 and 55% in 2024.
The stock has been under pressure like other de-SPACs but has found support at $5 and has made one push up to $6.75, which is the 50-day simple moving average.
As always, we would not chase strength in the stock to start the week but will look to aggressively trade it on a pullback to $5.50 support or on a move over recent highs around $6.50.
With the instability in the global political situation, services like PL will be in great demand.
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