Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
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.
Sector: Communication Services · Industry: Telecom Services · United States · 975 employees · iridium.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) had a market capitalization of $5.00B, a trailing P/E of 54.3 (forward 27.5), a dividend yield of 1.28% and a beta of 0.88; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $15.65 – $57.18 (119.5% over the year).
- Market cap
- $5.00B
- Enterprise value
- $6.61B
- Trailing P/E
- 54.3
- Forward P/E
- 27.5
- PEG ratio
- 1.82
- Price / book
- 10.59
- EPS (trailing)
- $0.87
- EPS (forward)
- $1.72
- Dividend yield
- 1.28%
- Payout ratio
- 69.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-09-15
- 52-week range
- $15.65 – $57.18
- 52-week change
- 119.5%
- Beta
- 0.88
- Average volume
- 2.0M
- Shares outstanding
- 106.0M
- Short % of float
- 3.17%
- Profit margin
- 10.5%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) last closed at $47.03 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 45 (neutral territory), price -1.8% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -1.0%, MACD histogram -0.07.
Sentiment inputs: 67% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 64% bullish; analyst consensus score 66/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 19 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of IRDM; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 10 sells (6 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-09-04). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Timothy James Last (0B/3S), Thomas Fitzpatrick (0B/2S), Kathleen A. Morgan (0B/2S), Suzanne E. Mcbride (0B/1S), Eric T. Olson (0B/1S), Timothy Kapalka (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
IRDM has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell IRDM.
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