We recently published 10 Market Stars Behind Millionaire-Making in 2025. EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) is one of the top performers. EchoStar surged by 374.67 percent in 2025, an impressive recovery from what could be a turbulent year that almost put the company into bankruptcy, thanks to a series of billion-dollar deals with technology giants that regained investor confidence. It can be recalled that EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) in May this year announced that it intentionally did not settle worth $326 million of interest payments for one of its senior notes following the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) initiation of review to probe into the former’s compliance obligations to provide 5G services in the US.
According to EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS), the review froze its ability to make decisions on the interest payments. President Donald Trump later intervened and directed the two parties to resolve their dispute. Late in August, EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) said that it officially sold licenses amounting to $23 billion to AT&T as part of its efforts to resolve the dispute. In separate transactions in September and November, the company also sold its remaining AWS-3 and AWS-4 licenses to Elon Musk-led Space X for a total of $19.6 billion, in exchange for a combination of cash and SpaceX shares. The transaction effectively made EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) one of the significant shareholders of SpaceX. Lastly, the company’s surge to new records last month was boosted by news about SpaceX’s plan to list publicly in a bid to raise as much as $30 billion in fresh funds, a transaction which could bolster the company’s IPO valuation to $1.5 trillion. While we acknowledge the potential of SATS as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an extremely cheap AI stock that is also a major beneficiary of Trump tariffs and onshoring, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 30 Stocks That Should Double in 3 Years and 11 Hidden AI Stocks to Buy Right Now. Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
