Is the business good?
How good a business is IRDM?
Iridium Communications Inc. earns 55% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
55%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 46 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Cash conversion
- 3.09×
Cash conversion · 2.88× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +0.26%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.1% |
| FY2021 | 7.5% |
| FY2022 | 11% |
| FY2023 | 10% |
| FY2024 | 24% |
| FY2025 | 27% |
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- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $288M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $93M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 55%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.