On August 24, AST SpaceMobile, Inc. declined 5.14% in regular trading, trading at $65.675/share, with turnover of approximately $82.05 million.

On the news front, Elon Musk stated on social media that reports of SpaceX planning to acquire approximately $6 billion worth of 800 MHz spectrum held by Grain Management were inaccurate, cooling market optimism around the competitive bidding process. Previously on August 21, reports had surfaced that both SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile expressed interest in acquiring the spectrum — which is strategically valuable for providing direct-to-phone wireless services from space — lifting ASTS shares by 5.53% that day. Grain had solicited initial bids by the first week of September.

Additionally, the Alternative Carriers sector faced broad-based selling pressure. SpaceX fell 1.88%, Anterix declined 3.73%, Iridium dropped 2.49%, and Lumen Technologies slid 2.95%, creating sector-wide drag. The overhang from the company's Q2 earnings miss — adjusted EPS of -$0.35 versus estimates of -$0.28 and revenue of $31.52 million below the $34.98 million consensus — continued to weigh on sentiment.

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