Searching for Financial Bubble in the Private Space Sector

This article is related to financial analysis of the space sector of economy. The aim of this project is to find out whether there is a bubble in the private segment of the global space economy or not. Different approaches to the definition of the financial bubble are overviewed. Depending on these definitions several criteria were singled out as symptoms of the bubble appearance. The main part of the research grounds on the analysis of the dynamics of share prices of the companies which activity is related to space exploration and commercialization. Buffett`s approach to calculation of the intrinsic value was used to define over- or undervalued companies in the target sector. The research also concerns the analysis of frequency of new companies appearing on the market.