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Credo Technology (CRDO): SpaceX’s Worst-Kept Secret Is Now 51% Off, Initiating at Overweight

Initiating at Overweight with a Dec-27 price target of $187. The purple cables in a still from SpaceX’s earnings call are Credo’s active electrical cables, and they are not hidden. What is new is the price: Credo closed at $147.29, 51% below its June high and ~20x our NTM non-GAAP EPS.

By K2 Research TeamOct 27, 2026PDF · 9 pages

Initiating at Overweight with a Dec-27 price target of $187. The purple cables in a still from SpaceX’s earnings call are Credo’s active electrical cables, and they are not hidden. What is new is the price: Credo closed at $147.29, 51% below its June high and ~20x our NTM non-GAAP EPS.

What’s inside

  1. Initiating at Overweight, Dec-27 PT $187
  2. The price already assumes the share loss
  3. The SpaceX “leak”, corrected
  4. Summary investment thesis and valuation
  5. Customers and product mix
  6. Capacity, capital and M&A update
  7. 1Q27 (Aug-26) summary
  8. Credo Technology Dec-27 PT methodology
  9. Credo Technology earnings trends
  10. The leak that wasn’t: a public secret since 2025
  11. The 95% problem is already in the price
  12. What the price already discounts
  13. Risks to rating and price target
  14. What would make us wrong?
  15. Signposts