Rocket Lab Corporation RKLB Chief Executive

What Peter Beck says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Peter Beck

Peter Beck

Founder, President, CEO & Chairman · Rocket Lab Corporation

New Zealand engineer who founded Rocket Lab in 2006 and built Electron into the second-most-launched US orbital rocket. Knighted in 2024. Runs the company as a vertically integrated manufacturer rather than a launch provider, and the Neutron programme and the Iridium acquisition are both his calls. The most quotable operator in the sector after Musk, and the one who publicly ate his hat over reusability.

Peter_J_Beck
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
23/ 70
Level 2Aligned

Beck owns about 8% of Rocket Lab Corporation, worth $3.70B at the last close.

SEC filings
23
Stake 53.2M reported shares ≈ 8.3% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 26/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Sold 7.2M shares ($499.6M) — more than a tenth of the stake — in the last year -10/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 23 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 53.2M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Jul 8, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $82.1M Jul 8, 2026 · 990,960 shares at $82.86 avg · under a 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2025-11-15 grant or award in Rocket Lab Corp was filed 2025-11-25, 7 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported Rocket Lab Corporation shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-07-08
050M100M150M 202120222023202420252026 Jul 2026: net −3.3M shares across 3 movements (largest: sale −1.3M)May 2026: net +4.6M shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +5.0M)Mar 2026: net −18,857 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −18,857)Dec 2025: net −2.5M shares across 2 movements (largest: sale −1.6M)Nov 2025: net +113,569 shares across 2 movements (largest: award +132,426)Sep 2025: net −2.5M shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −1.4M) 53.2M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockEquatorial Trust50,951,250
Common Stockby Trust1,724,221
Common StockDirect491,930
Reported as of 2026-07-0853,167,401
Held directly
1%
Vehicles
2 trusts or entities
Last filing
Jul 8, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 56 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Jul 8, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 6 lots, $81.59–$86.12 −990,960 $82.86 avg $82.1M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Jul 7, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 8 lots, $83.58–$90.26 −1,298,622 $84.92 avg $110.3M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Jul 6, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 10 lots, $92.81–$101.57 −986,197 $95.33 avg $94.0M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
May 26, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative +5,000,000 — — Through by Trust
Mar 2, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 5 lots, $66.83–$70.62 −18,857 $69.59 avg $1.3M under a 10b5-1 plan
Dec 16, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 4 lots, $53.21–$56.00 −939,746 $54.73 avg $51.4M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Dec 15, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 10 lots, $55.64–$64.31 −1,560,254 $57.47 avg $89.7M Through by Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Nov 24, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 3 lots, $40.02–$41.35 −18,857 $40.65 avg $767K no 10b5-1 plan
Nov 15, 2025 Award Grant or award +132,426 — — Filed Nov 25, 2025, outside the two-day window
Sep 16, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 5 lots, $48.04–$51.81 −1,436,442 $48.75 avg $70.0M Through Trust · under a 10b5-1 plan
Every issuer Peter Beck files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
RKLB Rocket Lab Corp This page CEO 53M
2026-07-08		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

23 filings under CIK 0001881842 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Aug 10, 2026 Beck's argument was that Rocket Lab has just stopped being a supplier to the space economy and started being a participant in it. He framed the business as three verticals — access to space, the hardware you fly, and the applications that are the reason for going in the first place — and said the pending Iridium acquisition is what finally gives Rocket Lab the third one, on a constellation of 66 satellites with 2.5 million subscribers and $870 million of annual revenue that would take a decade to build from scratch. Underneath that, his operating case was scarcity: launch is more constrained than he has ever seen it, rival capacity coming to market is largely spoken for by its owners' own programmes, and so the discipline on Neutron is not to rush flight one but to protect flight ten — and to keep enough of the vehicle's early capacity for Rocket Lab's own constellation rather than sell it all forward. Read the call · 9 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

3 recorded appearances

2026

Interview CNBC · Jul 1, 2026 · 5 min

Rocket Lab CEO on company's $8 billion deal to buy satellite communications provider Iridium

Beck argued the value in Iridium is the globally harmonised L-band spectrum and an operating network, and said Rocket Lab does not intend to take Starlink on directly - the target is emergency, defence and safety-of-life traffic rather than consumer broadband.

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