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Iridium Communications Inc. IRDM
Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) earns a Piotroski F-score of 7/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. It pays a dividend yielding 1.37% (safety: moderate). FY2025 revenue was $871.7M at a 13.1% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | Morgan Stanley | Equal-Weight (main) |
| 2026-06-03 | Oppenheimer | Outperform (main) |
| 2026-04-27 | BWS Financial | Sell (main) |
| 2026-04-24 | Raymond James | Market Perform (down) |
| 2026-04-15 | BWS Financial | Sell (main) |
| 2026-04-09 | Barclays | Overweight (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Transportation & Utilities · percentile among 348 companies
Percentile vs other Transportation & Utilities companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 7/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · distress zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.065 |
| Retained earnings / assets | -0.165 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.093 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.224 |
Sector peers · similar-size Transportation & Utilities companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRDM | Iridium Communications Inc. | 7/9 | 0.75 | 40.2 | +4.9% |
| GOGO | Gogo Inc. | 5/9 | -1.47 | 33.3 | +104.7% |
| CCOI | COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC. | 3/9 | -0.5 | — | -5.8% |
| CALX | CALIX, INC | 6/9 | 6.79 | 126.9 | +20.3% |
| KORE | KORE Group Holdings, Inc. | 4/9 | -5.24 | — | +-0% |
| GSAT | Globalstar, Inc. | 4/9 | -1.96 | — | +9% |
| BZFD | BuzzFeed, Inc. | 3/9 | -13.42 | — | -2.4% |
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About Iridium Communications Inc.
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 include 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.
FAQ
Is IRDM financially healthy?
Iridium Communications Inc.'s Piotroski F-score is 7/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the distress zone.
Does IRDM pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. Iridium Communications Inc. pays a dividend yielding about 1.37% with a 55.0% payout ratio, rated “moderate” for safety.
How profitable is IRDM?
In FY2025, Iridium Communications Inc. had a net margin of 13.1% and a return on equity of 24.7%.
Is IRDM overvalued or undervalued?
Iridium Communications Inc. trades at about 46.8× trailing earnings — above its 10-year norm (10-year range 7.0×–854.9×, median 14.3×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for IRDM?
The average Wall-Street price target for Iridium Communications Inc. is $45.00, about 9.4% below the recent price, from 6 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is IRDM a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Iridium Communications Inc.: a Piotroski F-score of 7/9, an Altman Z″ in the distress zone, a P/E of about 40.2×, a dividend yield of 1.37%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.