Iridium Communications Inc (NASDAQ:IRDM) does about 1.13M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2014049 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.41B USD. Its current market price is $29.99, marking an increase of 2.01% compared to the previous close of $29.40. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $41.66 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $24.14.
Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) has a 20-day trading average at $29.24 and the current price is -28.01% off the 52-week high compared with 24.23% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $29.62 and its 200-day simple moving average is $28.25. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.02%, which decreases to 3.49% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 54.31 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $40.60, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 26.13% over the period.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 12 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 1 advise that it is a overweight. 11 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on February 16, 2024 when BWS Financial downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $30. Deutsche Bank upgraded its price target at $57.
The current price level is 2.58%, 1.26%, and 6.15% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the IRDM price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) stock is up 4.90% over the week and 3.31% over the past month. Its price is -27.14% year-to-date and -19.98% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.31 above consensus estimates by 0.22. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.22 and 1.01 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $207.35M, which analysts say will come at $821.74M for the current fiscal year and next year at $846.59M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $203.7M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 26.13 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 122.78M with insiders holding 11.36% of the shares and institutional holders owning 86.53% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 4.69% and return on equity of 14.41%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 31.84 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 29.32. The beta has a value of 0.65. Price to book ratio is 5.16 and price to sales ratio is 4.20.
