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Iridium Communications $IRDM

🫧 Edgar looked up Iridium Communications Inc. ($IRDM). Last filing: 8-K (8.01 Other Events), 2026-09-18. 14 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $871.7M (FY2025), total debt $1.8B. Experience: revenue up 4.9% on the year, up 9.1% a year over 4 years; operating margin 27.1%, up from 24.1%. Soundness: equity 18.3% of assets, return on equity 24.7%, payout 55.0% of profit. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $727.0M and $1.2B next year (method v3, set from 4,309 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (11 filers, $50M+ revenue, communications services, nec): operating margin 27.1% against a -4.4% median; growth 4.9% against -0.1%.

Iridium Communications Inc. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median -4.4%27.1%Revenue, on the yearPeer median -0.1%4.9%Equity of assetsPeer median 18.3%18.3%Return on equityPeer median -0.8%24.7%Payout of profit55.0%Gold tick: the median of 9–11 peers with $50M+ revenue in communications services, nec
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit55.0% paid out45.0% keptHanded back per share$0.13Growth its own profit can fund11.1%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed4.9%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-12-31
Revenue$872M
Revenue, on the year4.9%
Revenue, a year over the record9.1%
Operating margin27.1%
Operating margin, prior year24.1%
Net margin13.1%
Research and development$20M · 2.3% of revenue
Free cash flow$300M
Cash$97M
Total debt$1.8B
Equity of assets18.3%
Return on equity24.7%
Payout of profit55.0%
Dividend per share$0.13
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 11 filers with $50M+ revenue in communications services, nec.

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