Iridium CommunicationsIRDM

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4 good· Earnings beat
5 to watch· Fewer buy ratings

$46.37−0.92 (−1.95%)

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NYSE · Communication Services · Mid-size company

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From the 10-Q for the quarter to Sep 30, reported Oct 20
Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11

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Shrinking
sales

Compared with the S&P 500

5 points
worse in one day
12 points
worse in five trading days

+183% in a yearsince Nov 11, 2025

Earnings report

The news behind our call

written Sep 22, 10:07 AM ETSep 22, 10:07 AM ET · 2 articles · 2 sources

Iridium’s established satellite network produces strong operating profits and shareholder returns.
Iridium is among the leading names in a recovering communications group.

What changed

From Rocket Lab USA, Inc. via Yahoo Finance, marketbeat.com, Morgan Stanley via Yahoo Finance and 1 more

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Today
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Monday
Rocket Lab announces Third quarter 2026 Financial results: Posts record revenue, $1.2 billion or 52% Sequential quarterly backlog growth, Positive GAAP operating cash Flow, and Guides to record revenue and Gross margin expansion in Q4 2026
Monday
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Nov 3
Analyst ratings shifted: 2 fewer buy
2 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell, against 4 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell the month before.
Analysts · Last month
IRDM reported earnings
Earnings · Oct 20
Iridium Communications (IRDM) stock price, news & Analysis $IRDM
Sep 21
Went ex-dividend: $0.15 a share
Paid Sep 30.
Dividend · Sep 15

Overview

In plain numbers

Revenue grew 3.6% from a year earlier, to $903.0M in the last twelve months.
It keeps 19 cents of every revenue dollar as operating profit, up from 8 cents in FY 2021.
It turned 31% of revenue into free cash flow: $277.6M in the last twelve months.
It owes $2.2B and holds $97.8M in cash and investments, so net debt is $2.1B.

Key figures

Revenue (TTM): $903M
Revenue growth, 1 year: +3.6%
Net income: $163M
EPS (diluted): $1.52
Gross margin: 71.5%
Operating margin: 19.0%

Return on equity: 31.7%
Return on capital: 6.4%
Debt / equity: 3.78
Current ratio: 0.91
Dividend yield: 1.29%
Buyback yield: 2.72%

Key facts

Company value: $4.7B
Price / last year's earnings: 47.7×
Today's range: 46.2247.31
Past year's range: 15.5255.54

Yesterday's close: $47.29
Swings vs the market: 0.9×about the same
Dividend yield: 1.29%$0.60 a year