Iridium Communications has retired 21.1% of its shares since 2020, from 134,279,633 to 105,960,383.
At $43.76 a share, a market value of $4.6B. FCF yield 6.2%, P/E 49.7, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2010-03-12 | 70,247,701 | 10-K | cover page |
| 2010 | 2010-12-31 | 70,254,000 | 10-K/A | |
| 2011 | 2012-03-01 | 73,205,008 | 10-K/A | |
| 2012 | 2013-02-27 | 76,462,045 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-02-27 | 76,689,814 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-23 | 93,978,398 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-02-22 | 95,129,867 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-02-17 | 95,901,504 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-02-15 | 98,211,433 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-02-22 | 112,239,417 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2019-12-31 | 131,731,125 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-05 | 134,279,633 | 10-K/A | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-15 | 128,373,452 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-10 | 125,966,723 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-09 | 122,446,386 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-07 | 108,839,159 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-06 | 104,956,759 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Iridium Communications on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $43.76.
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Not on a net basis. Iridium Communications has 1.2% more shares outstanding than twelve months ago. Whatever it bought back did not cover the new shares it issued. Over five years the share count is down 19.8%.
Net of every new share it issued, Iridium Communications has 28.3 million fewer shares than at its 2020 peak. That is 21.1% of the company.
105,960,383 shares, as of July 15, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2020 peak it had 134,279,633.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Iridium Communications stock in 2020 owns 1.3 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Iridium Communications ranks No. 359 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: IMAX (21.3%), Snap-on (21.1%), Rave Restaurant Group (21.1%), Johnson & Johnson (20.9%).
Every answer is computed from Iridium Communications' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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