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Two defense giants are betting on opposite sides of naval warfare, and one of them just posted negative free cash flow while the other is sitting on nearly two billion dollars of it. The question is whether a $3.45 billion sensor acquisition can close that gap before program charges do further damage.

Lockheed Martin acquired the naval defense firm Ultra Maritime from the private equity firm Advent International.

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Rocket Lab was supposed to ride the wave of the biggest space IPO in years, but it ended up getting swamped.

Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Market Domination to tackle today's top trending tickers, including the momentum driving SpaceX (SPCX) shares in Friday's session after the company's IPO, the impact it is having on other space stocks Virgin Galactic (SPCE) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), and how semiconductor stocks such as Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA) are moving on the historic public offering.

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You could buy all the aerospace companies in the S&P 500 and still have $300 billion left over for what investors are going to shell out for SpaceX.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is likely to get a $1.8 trillion price tag when it debuts on the Nasdaq next week, carries a host of superlatives. Part of the problem is SpaceX itself. The company combines Musk’s space, satellite, social media, and artificial intelligence divisions, and is expected to float 555 million shares next week with a share price of around $135.

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Investing.com -- A majority of SpaceX shareholders have approved a 5-for-1 stock split recommended by the company’s board of directors, according to a Bloomberg News report citing people familiar with the matter.

There are a bunch of space-themed ETFs, a mix of actively managed and index funds. But just one has access to SpaceX ahead of its eagerly awaited debut.