SpaceX's earnings beat runs into a $116bn problem

SpaceX Corp (NASDAQ:SPCX) did almost everything investors had asked of it in its first quarterly report as a public company, and the shares fell anyway. Revenue of $7.8 billion for the April to June quarter came in ahead of the $6.81 billion analysts had pencilled in, and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $3.5 billion beat a $2 billion consensus.