secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM)
CIK:        0001418819
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-04-18T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001418819-24-000022
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Iridium Q1 net income $19.7M; OEBITDA $115M; completes Satelles acquisition; raises dividend
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- Net income $19.7M ($0.16 diluted EPS) vs $9.8M ($0.08) YoY; OEBITDA $115M up 3%.
- Total revenue $203.9M, down 1% YoY; service revenue $148.6M up 7%.
- Commercial IoT revenue $39.4M (+23% YoY); subscribers up 18% to 1.77M.
- Completed acquisition of Satelles on April 1; funded with $125M from term loan increase.
- Board raises quarterly dividend to $0.14 (5.8% increase) from $0.13; $56.6M spent on 1.9M share repurchases in Q1.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000141881924000022/0001418819-24-000022-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000141881924000022/irdm-20240418.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001418819-24-000022

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