Iridium Communications Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

April 2024 | 50 pages | ID: I8B8E161301BEN
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Abstracts

Iridium Communications Inc. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Iridium Communications Inc. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Iridium Communications Inc. position in the Communication Services Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Iridium Communications Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Iridium Communications Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The Iridium Communications Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes Iridium Communications Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Iridium Communications Inc. business.

About Iridium Communications Inc.

Iridium Communications Inc. provides mobile voice and data communications services through satellite. The company provides mobile satellite communications services.

The company offers voice and data communications services to businesses, the U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and consumers through its constellation of 66 in-orbit satellites, in-orbit spares and related ground infrastructure, including a primary commercial gateway. It utilizes interlinked mesh architecture to route traffic across its satellite constellation using radio frequency crosslinks between satellites.

The company’s voice and data products are used for various primary and backup communications solutions, including logistical, administrative, morale and welfare and emergency communications. In addition, its products and related applications are installed in ground vehicles, ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft and are used for command and control and situational awareness purposes.

The company sells its products and services to commercial end-users through a wholesale distribution network, encompassing approximately 65 service providers, 130 value-added resellers, or VARs, and 45 value-added manufacturers, or VAMs, which sell either directly to the end-user or indirectly through other service providers, VARs or dealers. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 369,000 subscribers worldwide.

Services and Products

Commercial Services

Post-paid Mobile Voice and Data Satellite Communications Services: The company sells its mobile voice and data services to service providers and resellers who in turn offer such services to end-users, either directly or indirectly through dealers, through various packaged solutions. In exchange for these services, it typically charge service providers and resellers a monthly access fee per subscriber, as well as usage fees for airtime minutes used by their respective subscribers.

Prepaid Mobile Voice Satellite Communications Services: The company also offers mobile voice services to service providers and resellers through prepaid plans. Service providers and resellers pay it in advance for blocks of airtime minutes with expiration periods in various configurations, typically one year.

High-Speed Data Services: The company offers high-speed data maritime service, Iridium OpenPort, which offers maritime end-users speeds of up to 128 kbps and up to three voice lines which can be used simultaneously without interference. It offers additional services that permit service providers and resellers to offer integrated solutions for ship-to-shore crew calling, e-mail and IP-based data communications. For its Iridium OpenPort service, the company typically charges service providers and resellers a monthly access fee per subscriber, as well as usage fees for airtime minutes used by the respective subscribers above their monthly quotas.

Machine-to-Machine Services: The company offers M2M services are designed to address the market need for sending and receiving data, such as location, from fixed and mobile assets in remote locations to a central monitoring station. It sells its M2M services to its distributors who in turn offer such services to end-users, such as various U.S. and international governmental agencies, including NOAA, as well as commercial and other entities, such as Schlumberger Limited, Continental Airlines and Conoco Phillips.

Other Services

The company offers ancillary services related to its core service offerings, such as inbound connections from the public switched telephone networks, or PSTN, short message services, or SMS, subscriber identity module, or SIM, activation, customer reactivation and other peripheral services. It also provides research and development services to assist customers in developing new technologies compatible with its system. The company provides research and development services to secondary payload customers.

U.S. Government Services: The company provides U.S. government customers bulk access to its services, including voice, netted voice, data, messaging and paging services, as well as maintenance services

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Iridium Communications Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Iridium Communications Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Iridium Communications Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Iridium Communications Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Communication Services Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Iridium Communications Inc. Industry Position Analysis

6. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Iridium Communications Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Iridium Communications Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
Iridium Communications Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
Iridium Communications Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Iridium Communications Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Iridium Communications Inc. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Iridium Communications Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Iridium Communications Inc. Key Executives
Iridium Communications Inc. Major Shareholders
Iridium Communications Inc. History
Iridium Communications Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Iridium Communications Inc. Offices and Representations
Iridium Communications Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Iridium Communications Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Iridium Communications Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
Iridium Communications Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Communication Services Industry Statistics
Iridium Communications Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Iridium Communications Inc. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?