IRDM

Iridium Communications Inc.

NASDAQ· Communication Services· Telecom Services

$46.60-2.18%

Key metrics

Market cap: $4.94B
P/E: 54.8x
Forward P/E: 27.2x
P/B: 10.4x
Dividend yield: 1.29%
EPS: $0.85
ROE: 19.71%
Profit margin: 10.55%
Revenue growth: +3.80%
Beta: 0.88
52-week high: $57.18
52-week low: $15.65

History

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Revenue4 years

Net debtDebt minus cash — below zero means more cash than debt

Dividend per share4 years

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About the company

Iridium Communications Inc. provides mobile voice and data communications services and products to businesses, the United States and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and consumers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers mobile satellite communications services for land mobile end users and aviation sectors; broadband terminals, embedded devices, and handsets for merchant shipping, fishing, leisure and research vessels, and specialized watercraft; satellite-based IoT services; hosted payload and other data services; and other data services and engineering services. It also provides postpaid mobile voice and data satellite communications; prepaid mobile voice satellite communications; push-to-talk; broadband data; Internet of Things (IoT); and satellite time and location services. In addition, the company offers personnel tracking devices; asset tracking devices for equipment, vehicles, and aircrafts; beyond-line-of-sight aircraft communications applications; maritime communications applications; specialized communications solutions for high-value individuals; and mobile communications and data devices for the military and other government agencies, such as secure satellite handsets; and maintenance services for the U.S. government's dedicated gateway. Further, it provides satellite handsets, voice and data modems, broadband data devices, and IoT data devices; and various accessories for its devices that include batteries, holsters, earbud headphones, portable auxiliary antennas, antenna adaptors, USB data cables, and charging units. The company sells its products and services to commercial end users through a wholesale distribution network that includes service providers, and value-added resellers and value-added manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Iridium Holdings LLC and changed its name to Iridium Communications Inc. in September 2009. Iridium Communications Inc. is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Employees: 975
Headquarters: McLean, United States
Website: iridium.com

Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.