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Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by MCFARLAND KATHARINA G., was filed 16 Jun 2022.
Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc.: what insiders have been doing
Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. has a thin disclosure history in our data (latest filing: 28 February 2023). New filings will appear here as soon as they are published. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
24
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€7,999
1 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
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Financial data
as of FY 2022FY ended December 2022 · cache
Income statement
RevenueUS$28.5M
Gross profit-US$45.3M-159% margin
Net income-US$164.6M-577.4% margin
Last declaration on 28 February 2023
Declarations24 total
12,486 shares@ US$1.32100.0% of flowCommon stockSEC:0001843388-23-000016:0
12,487 shares@ US$1.32100.0% of flowCommon stockSEC:0001843388-23-000014:0
12,270 shares@ US$1.34100.0% of flowCommon stockSEC:0001843388-23-000010:0
12,486 shares@ US$1.32100.0% of flowCommon stockSEC:0001843388-23-000012:0
28,986 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000042:0
28,986 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000044:0
100,000 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000028:0
100,000 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000024:0
100,000 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000026:0
100,000 shares0Common stockSEC:0001843388-22-000030:0
2,884 shares@ US$2.90100.0% of flowCommon stockSEC:0001628280-22-017372:0
Canonical exit: 13 Sept 2022 (T+90)
8,109 shares0Common stockSEC:0001628280-22-012811:0
8,109 shares0Common stockSEC:0001701825-22-000002:0
8,799,864 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000351:1
8,799,864 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000348:1
125,000 shares@ US$10.00100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000308:0
125,000 shares@ US$10.00100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000305:0
125,000 shares@ US$10.00100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000310:0
301,981,419 shares0Common StockSEC:0001213900-22-000352:0
301,981,419 shares0Common StockSEC:0001213900-22-000353:0
390,000 shares@ US$10.00100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000351:0
22,557 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000345:0
8,799,864 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000312:0
390,000 shares@ US$10.00100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001213900-22-000348:0
24 of 24 declarations
About Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc.
Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. was a United States aerospace company focused on orbital launch services for small satellites. The business was created in 2017 as a spin-off from Virgin Galactic to develop and commercialize LauncherOne, an air-launched rocket system designed to place small payloads into low Earth orbit. Historically, the company was headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States. Virgin Orbit became a public company on the Nasdaq through a SPAC transaction completed in late 2021 under the ticker VORB. For investors, the key point is that this is now primarily a restructuring-and-liquidation story rather than a normal growth equity story.
Operationally, Virgin Orbit targeted the small-launch segment of the space industry. Its core proposition was flexibility: instead of relying on a fixed ground-based launch pad, LauncherOne was carried to altitude by a modified Boeing 747 and then released for rocket ignition. In theory, this approach could offer greater scheduling agility and access to a wider range of launch trajectories. The company’s customer base was intended to include government agencies, institutional clients, and commercial satellite operators that needed dedicated launch capacity for small spacecraft. In that sense, Virgin Orbit competed in a niche but capital-intensive market, alongside other small-launch providers and, more broadly, against larger vertically integrated launch companies with stronger scale advantages.
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From a competitive standpoint, Virgin Orbit tried to differentiate itself through responsiveness, mobility, and a lighter infrastructure footprint. However, the launch market is unforgiving: it requires substantial R&D spending, high reliability, strong insurance coverage, and long-term funding visibility. Public disclosures and company announcements in 2023 show that Virgin Orbit entered Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States and that Nasdaq began delisting proceedings after the bankruptcy filing, underscoring severe financial distress. The company’s commercial promise was therefore overshadowed by liquidity pressures, execution risk, and the challenge of converting technical differentiation into a sustainable order book and recurring revenues.
Geographically, the company was rooted in California, but its market opportunity was global, as small-satellite launch demand can come from defense, civil space, and commercial customers worldwide. The most relevant recent fact pattern for investors is not product expansion but the company’s insolvency and collapse as a listed issuer. That makes Virgin Orbit an important reference case for analyzing public aerospace equities on Nasdaq in the United States: even with a compelling technical concept and a recognizable brand, the economics of the launch business can be highly punitive if reliability, fundraising, and backlog development do not line up. In short, Virgin Orbit is best understood as a former U.S.-listed small-launch specialist whose public-market chapter ended in financial distress.
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