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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-018711"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IRDM"
cik: "0001418819"
company_name: "Iridium Communications Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T09:11:31.246534+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Iridium Q1 net income $30.4M ($0.27 EPS), revenue up 5% YoY, reaffirms 2025 outlook

## Summary
- Total revenue $214.9M (+5% YoY); service revenue $154.3M (+4%); OEBITDA $122.1M (+6%).
- Total billable subscribers 2,443,000 (+5% YoY); commercial IoT subscribers up 7% to 1,885,000.
- Board plans to raise quarterly dividend to $0.15/shr starting Q3 2025 (from $0.14).
- Repurchased 2.4M shares for $70M in Q1; $360.3M remaining under buyback through 2027.
- CEO warns incremental equipment costs from tariffs but reiterates full-year OEBITDA guidance of $490-500M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-018711
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IRDM
- cik: 0001418819
- company_name: Iridium Communications Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025018711/0001628280-25-018711-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025018711/irdm-20250422.htm

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