---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-025557"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IRDM"
cik: "0001418819"
company_name: "Iridium Communications Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T08:16:07.730607+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Iridium declares $0.14/share dividend, approves equity plan increase to 38.1M shares

## Summary
- Quarterly cash dividend of $0.14 per share payable June 30, 2025 to holders of record June 13, 2025.
- Stockholders approved Amended 2015 Equity Plan, reserving 38,097,991 shares for issuance (includes 4.5M new shares).
- Certificate of Incorporation amended to limit officer monetary liability under Delaware law.
- All ten director nominees elected; advisory say-on-pay and KPMG ratification passed with >77% support.
- Over 83% of outstanding shares voted at the May 14, 2025 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-025557
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IRDM
- cik: 0001418819
- company_name: Iridium Communications Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025025557/0001628280-25-025557-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025025557/irdm-20250514.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Iridium Communications Inc.: Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to limit the monetary liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-05-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-14
  source text: On May 14, 2025, the Company filed the Certificate of Amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418819/000162828025025557/0001628280-25-025557-index.htm

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