Musk Taunts SpaceX Bears Ahead Of Earnings: "I Tried To Warn Them, But They Just Double Down"

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Musk Comments On ZH X Post 

Elon Musk has delivered another reminder to bears piling into SPCX shorts that "doubling down" can be a very costly strategy.

The stock is being squeezed nearly 10% higher in the afternoon trading hours in New York, with SpaceX set to report its first earnings as a publicly traded company in just a few hours.

"I try to warn them, but they just double down...," Musk wrote in an X post responding to our earlier report citing proprietary data from S3 Partners.

That data shows 95% of SpaceX shares available to borrow are already out on loan, with short interest amounting to 34% of the float.

I try to warn them, but they just double down … 🤷‍♂️

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 4, 2026

Ahead of SpaceX earnings set to be released at 1600 ET (earnings call at 1630 ET), UBS analyst Christina Dwyer provided clients with color on what to look for ahead of earnings:

SpaceX (SPCX) reports after the closing bell on Tuesday and heads into its first major earnings report as a public company with investor focus increasingly shifting beyond the quarter itself. While revenue and EBITDA performance will mat