Introducing Sector Classifications for the Space Industry April 15, 2021
By Micah Walter-Range, Founder, Space Investment Services LLC; Stacey Morris, CFA, Director of Research, Alerian and S-Network Global Indexes
The burgeoning global space economy has a wide range of participants across sectors and geographies. These companies are focused on various space-related activities from manufacturing or operating satellites to producing the equipment used on Earth to leverage systems in space. Given the diversity of activities and participants, a classification system tailored to the space industry can be a helpful resource for investors, allowing them to quickly assess the role a company plays in the space industry. This piece introduces the four sector classifications for constituents of the S-Network Space Index (SPACE), which serves as the benchmark index for the global space industry (read more). SPACE is also the underlying index for the Procure Space ETF (UFO), which is celeb