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Cathie Wood is returning to one of her most familiar plays, in buying a high-conviction growth stock while other investors remain indecisive.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 22, ARK Invest scooped up Rocket Lab (RKLB) shares worth $25.13 million. The move came with the space stock near $70, roughly 53% below its $151 high.<\/p>\n
The steep drop has legitimate causes. <\/p>\n
Rocket Lab has softened its timeline for Neutron’s first flight, issued disappointing gross-margin guidance and committed to an ambitious $8 billion acquisition of Iridium that introduces financing and dilution risk.<\/p>\n
But Wood rarely waits for uncertainty to disappear.<\/p>\n
Her strategy is built around accumulating disruptive companies when near-term fear collides with a five-year investment thesis. <\/p>\n
ARK scooped up CrowdStrike during the 2024 outage selloff and has repeatedly trimmed soaring winners to finance beaten-down favorites. This time, it sold Alphabet while adding Rocket Lab across three ETFs.<\/p>\n
That approach flourished when the Federal Reserve cut rates near zero in 2020 and Washington unleashed $2.2 trillion through the CARES Act. Cheap money allowed investors to pay aggressively for distant profits, helping the Nasdaq-100 surge close to 48% that year.<\/p>\n
Today’s rate backdrop is far less forgiving.<\/p>\n
Rocket Lab must now convert its $2.36 billion backlog, Neutron program and Iridium strategy into profitable growth.<\/p>\n
Wood’s purchase signals she believes the selloff has discounted more execution risk than Rocket Lab’s expanding space platform deserves.<\/p>\n
Cathie Wood turns Rocket Lab’s collapse into conviction bet<\/p>\n
Cathie Wood is using Rocket Lab’s weakness to make one of ARK Invest’s clearest space bets.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 22, ARK scooped up 359,612 Rocket Lab shares worth $25.13 million. The flagship ARK Innovation ETF purchased 277,573 shares, while ARKQ added 59,746 and ARKX bought 22,293.<\/p>\n
The presence across ARKK, the autonomous-technology fund and the dedicated space fund shows Wood views it as a disruptive platform spanning launch, satellite manufacturing, defense and communications.<\/p>\n
More importantly, this hasn’t been a one-day wager. <\/p>\n
ARK bought 705,102 shares worth $44.4 million across two early-September sessions, followed by another smaller purchase. In July, it bought 62,497 shares while selling 184,670 shares of Rocket Lab’s acquisition target, Iridium.<\/p>\n
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Moreover, the wider rotation from her has become apparent over the past few weeks. ARK trimmed Alphabet, AMD and Palantir while directing capital toward beaten-down innovation companies. On September 22 alone, it sold $5.83 million of Alphabet.<\/p>\n
Rocket Lab gives Wood the pullback she typically wants. <\/p>\n
At $70.31 on September 23, the stock sat 53% behind its $151 high after Neutron delays, a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and disappointing gross-margin guidance.<\/p>\n
The $8 billion Iridium acquisition adds dilution, integration and financing risk. Rocket Lab secured a $3.6 billion bridge facility and completed a near-$2 billion equity raise.<\/p>\n
But the upside case is powerful. <\/p>\n
Q2 sales shot up 62% to a record $234 million, the backlog reached $2.36 billion and Electron completed its 96th launch in September. Iridium adds global spectrum, an operating satellite network and more than 2.5 million subscribers.<\/p>\n
Rocket Lab fits ARKK’s five-year disruption thesis. Still, Wood is buying future execution, not present profitability.<\/p>\n
Cathie Wood sees tech boom outlasting rate shock<\/p>\n
Wood’s Rocket Lab purchase suggests she believes investors are underestimating how profoundly the technology can effectively reshape economic growth.<\/p>\n
In her latest investor letter, Wood argued that the current technology revolution is “likely to dwarf the Industrial Revolution.” <\/p>\n
ARK expects innovation across AI, robotics, energy storage, genomics, and blockchain to push real GDP growth above 7%, while productivity could deliver “sustainable productivity gains in the 5-6% range.”<\/p>\n
That’s why Wood is relatively relaxed about higher interest rates. Her thesis is that rates could remain elevated because real economic growth is accelerating, not because inflation is becoming entrenched. <\/p>\n
Technology should simultaneously lower production costs, expand margins and create new markets.<\/p>\n
“The current Technology Revolution is impacting the global economy in many ways like the Industrial Revolution did,” Wood said this week, predicting growth will accelerate significantly beyond the historical 2% to 3% range.<\/p>\n
However, that isn’t an endorsement for every tech stock. <\/p>\n
ARK recently trimmed Alphabet, AMD and Palantir while buying Rocket Lab, Nvidia, Archer Aviation and other companies where Wood sees more asymmetric upside.<\/p>\n
The risk is timing. <\/p>\n
Higher yields punish long-duration stocks immediately, while productivity gains may take years to appear. Rocket Lab captures that tension perfectly, where there’s a ton of potential, demanding execution and considerable financial risk before the bigger vision becomes reality.<\/p>\n
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest buys $25 million of battered Rocket Lab shares.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Tesla leads ARKK’s top 10 holdings<\/p>\n
Tesla (TSLA): 9.38%.<\/p>\n
Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX (SPCX): 6.01%.<\/p>\n
Tempus AI (TEM): 5.58%.<\/p>\n
Circle Internet Group (CRCL): 5.04%.<\/p>\n
Coinbase Global (COIN): 4.62%.<\/p>\n
CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP): 4.44%.<\/p>\n
Robinhood Markets (HOOD): 4.16%.<\/p>\n
Twist Bioscience (TWST): 3.64%.<\/p>\n
10x Genomics (TXG): 3.25%.<\/p>\n
Shopify (SHOP): 3.07%.Source: ARK Invest’s daily ARK Innovation ETF holdings file, dated Sept. 24, 2026. <\/p>\n
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