IRDM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Iridium Communications | NASDAQ:IRDM)

Iridium Communications Inc is the commercial provider of communications services offering true globalised coverage, connecting people, organizations, and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. The company is a provider of mobile voice and data communications services through a constellation of low-earth-orbiting satellites. Iridium's solutions are ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation, and utilities. Iridium also provides service to subscribers from the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as other civil and government agencies world-wide. The Company operates in one business segment, providing satellite communications services and products.

Iridium Communications trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol IRDM.

As of November 9, 2026, IRDM stock price climbed to $45.08 with 1,220,041 million shares trading.

IRDM has a beta of 1.66, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. IRDM has a correlation of 0.16 to the broad based SPY ETF.

IRDM has a market cap of $4.78 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Iridium Communications reported $246 million in Revenue and $.98 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-1 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.59.

In the last 3 years, IRDM traded as high as $57.18 and as low as $15.65.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that IRDM belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, AVUV, VTI, VB, VXF.

IRDM has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +170.3% while the SPY ETF gained +13.4%. However, in the short term, IRDM had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -6.4% vs -1.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, IRDM shares have fared better than the market returning +1.5% compared to SPY -1.0%.

IRDM support price is $43.17 and resistance is $44.91 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that IRDM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.