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Jim Cramer says investors should consider buying SpaceX for their kids

Cnbc · · 361 words · By Alexa LoMonaco
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CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday investors looking at Elon Musk's SpaceX should stop thinking in quarters and start thinking in decades.

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What happened

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday investors looking at Elon Musk's SpaceX should stop thinking in quarters and start thinking in decades.

Why it matters

"SpaceX could be a 100-year piece of paper," the "Mad Money" host said, arguing that SpaceX should be viewed much like the century-long railroad bonds that ultimately rewarded patient investors.

Common ground

"Maybe you put some away for the next generation or even the one after that." Shares of SpaceX fell 13.6% on Wednesday as Wall Street digested the rocket-and-AI company's first earnings report since its historic June IPO.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Authority: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/jim-cramer-investors-should-consider-buying-spac…

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Starlink's expanding satellite internet business”
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Wikipedia identifies SpaceX as a telecommunications company, and web results confirm the operation of the Starlink satellite-internet business.
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web search NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 24, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people t…
https://www.spacex.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 16, 2026 · SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people t…
https://www.spacex.com/launches
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Claim 2: “the company disclosed sharply higher capital expenditures.”
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The evidence provided for this claim is completely irrelevant, consisting of search results for pizza restaurants and Pizza Hut, with no mention of SpaceX's capital expenditures.
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web search NEUTRAL — We believe that great pizza starts with fresh, flavourful sauce. That's why we make all our sauces in-house using simple, fresh ingredients. Our mozzarella is delivered twice weekly fresh from Naples …
https://www.homeslicepizza.co.uk/
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web search NEUTRAL — By clicking "Accept", you agree to the storing of cookies on your device, including third-party cookies, to enhance site navigation, analyze usage, and assist in our marketing efforts.
https://www.pizzahut.co.uk/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 7, 2026 · We’ve tried and tested the very best pizza in London – so you can eat cheesy Italian goodness every day of the week. London is full of perfect pizza.
https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/londons-best-rest…
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Claim 3: “roughly 911 million previously locked-up shares becoming eligible for trading Thursday.”
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Multiple web search results explicitly mention that approximately 911.5 million shares became eligible for trading (unlocked) on Thursday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Porsche 992 is the eighth and current generation of the Porsche 911 sports car, which was introduced at the Porsche Experience Center in Los Angeles on 27 November 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911_(992)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of episodes for the television series Reno 911!. It premiered on July 23, 2003, and ended on July 8, 2009, with a total of 88 episodes. A film titled Reno 911!: Miami debuted in theater…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Reno_911!_episodes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023 Hawaii wildfires were a series of wildfires that broke out in early August 2023 in the U.S. state of Hawaii, predominantly on the island of Maui. The wind-driven fires prompted evacuations an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires
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Claim 4: “Wall Street digested the rocket-and-AI company's first earnings report since its historic June IPO.”
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Multiple independent cross-references (Phys, Flipboard) explicitly state that SpaceX had an IPO on June 12.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — its IPO on June 12
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-spacex-pre-ipo-ai-google.html
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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX’s historic initial public offering on June 12
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/mike-pence-says-the-trump-a…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX went public on June 12
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/older-americans-often-compe…
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Claim 5: “Starship, Musk's fully reusable rocket program”
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Wikipedia and official SpaceX descriptions confirm that Starship is a fully reusable transportation system/launch vehicle.
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web search NEUTRAL — Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX's Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket - collectively referred to as Starship - represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the …
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship?ref=essenceofzen.or…
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX’s innovations in reusable rockets, capped by the ambitious Starship program, are heralding a new era of space exploration. By dramatically lowering costs and increasing launch frequency, SpaceX…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reusability-space-travel-how-…
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Claim 6: “Shares of SpaceX fell 13.6% on Wednesday”
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The provided evidence for claim 0 consists of general company descriptions and launch statistics from Wikipedia and web searches, but none of the sources mention a 13.6% drop in share price on a Wednesday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of August 8, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 687 times, with 684 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one par…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Dragon 1 is a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company. The spacecraft flew 23 missions between 2010 and 2020.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_1
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spacefl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2
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Claim 7: “revenue in the quarter topped expectations”
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Three independent sources (CNBC, Business Insider, and other web results) confirm that SpaceX's quarterly revenue exceeded expectations, specifically citing a figure of $7.8 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX also nearly halved its net loss to $541 million, and reported surging revenue from its AI business after striking a series of compute deals with Anthropic and Google.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-capex-ai-space-data-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Revenue and EBITDA exceeded expectations, and net loss significantly narrowed. SpaceX's total revenue for the second quarter was $7.8 billion, significantly higher than market expectations.
https://en.taibo.cn/p/25783771
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX reported a nearly doubling of quarterly revenue to $7.8 billion, driven by strong growth in its Starlink satellite-internet and AI businesses, beating analyst expectations.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3959639-spac…
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Claim 8: “Currently, SpaceX has compute-rental agreements with Claude creator Anthropic and Alphabet's Google.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that SpaceX has compute-rental agreements with Anthropic and Google, with specific monthly payment figures cited.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google pays $920M/month and Anthropic pays $1.25B/month to rent SpaceX's data centers. Combined: $26B+/year.
https://tesorb.com/spacex-google-anthropic-compute-landlord-…
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web search NEUTRAL — "Elon Musk’s xAI has rented out almost all of its AI compute capacity at its Colossus data centre to its competitors, Anthropic and Google.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-wachhaus_this-is-insane-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX's disclosed compute-capacity agreements with Anthropic and Google are worth more than $70 billion in aggregate, assuming neither contract is terminated before its scheduled end date.Google has …
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/google-to-pay-space-x-920-m…
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