IRDMIridium Communications Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~2% a year FCF growth. The price bakes in little to no growth.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 54.0 vs a 18.9 median over 18 quarters (+186% vs median).
Sector median 16.8× across 43 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What IRDM's price assumes
Iridium Communications Inc. trades at 54.0× earnings against 13.3× for the median Telecom Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Telecom Services median 13.3 · 4.05× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 5.07
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- Free cash flow yield
- 6.5%
Free cash flow yield · Telecom Services median 9.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +2.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +2.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +4.9% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 9.56
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 25.8
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 6.98
- Communication Services median P/E140 names
- 16.1
- Telecom Services median P/E36 names
- 13.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $288M
- Market capitalisation
- $4.42B
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +4.9%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 54.0× today against a 18.9× median |
| 52-week range | $15.57 – $51.90 |
| Today | $47.48 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.