Compare · IRDM vs LITE
IRDM vs LITE
Side-by-side comparison of Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both IRDM and LITE operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
- LITE is the larger of the two at $78.09B, about 15.7x IRDM ($4.98B).
- Over the past year, IRDM is up 90.5% and LITE is up 548.6% - LITE leads by 458.0 points.
- LITE has been more active in the news (43 items in the past 4 weeks vs 24 for IRDM).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 23 for IRDM).
- Company
- Iridium Communications Inc
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $46.98+0.48%
- $870.41+0.23%
- Market cap
- $4.98B
- $78.09B
- 1M return
- -5.32%
- +2.42%
- 1Y return
- +90.55%
- +548.60%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 24
- 43
- Recent ratings
- 23
- 25
Iridium Communications Inc
Iridium Communications Inc. provides mobile voice and data communications services and product to businesses, the United States and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and consumers worldwide. The company offers postpaid mobile voice and data satellite communications; prepaid mobile voice satellite communications; push-to-talk; broadband data; and Internet of Things (IoT) services. It also provides other services, such as inbound connections from the public switched telephone network, short message, subscriber identity module, activation, customer reactivation, and other peripheral services. In addition, the company offers voice and data solutions comprising personnel tracking devices; asset tracking devices for equipment, vehicles, and aircrafts; beyond-line-of-sight aircraft communications applications; maritime communications applications; specialized communications solutions for high-value individuals; mobile communications and data devices for the military and intelligence agencies, such as secure satellite handsets, as well as netted voice, messaging, and paging services; and maintenance services for the department of defense's dedicated gateway. Further, it provides satellite handsets, personal connectivity devices, voice and data modems, broadband data devices, and IoT data devices; various accessories for its devices that include batteries, holsters, earbud headphones, portable auxiliary antennas, antenna adaptors, USB data cables, charging units, and others; and engineering and support services. Iridium Communications Inc. sells its products and services to commercial end users through a wholesale distribution network that include service providers, and value-added resellers and manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Iridium Holdings LLC and changed its name to Iridium Communications Inc. in September 2009. Iridium Communications Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
Lumentum Holdings Inc.
Lumentum Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells optical and photonic products in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers). The OpComms segment offers components, modules, and subsystems that enable the transmission and transport of video, audio, and data over high-capacity fiber optic cables. It offers tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules; tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators; transport products, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors, as well as components, including 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; and switches, attenuators, photodetectors, gain flattening filters, isolators, wavelength-division multiplexing filters, arrayed waveguide gratings, multiplex/de-multiplexers, and integrated passive modules. This segment also provides Super Transport Blade, which integrates optical transport functions into a single-slot blade; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. It serves customers in telecommunications, data communications, and consumer and industrial markets. The Commercial Lasers segment offers diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers for use in original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves customers in markets and applications, such as sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, graphics and imaging, remote sensing, and precision machining. Lumentum Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest IRDM
- Chief Financial Officer O'Neill Vincent James covered exercise/tax liability with 1,461 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 126,944 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
- EVP, Sales & Marketing Last Timothy James covered exercise/tax liability with 1,501 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 91,912 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- Chief Operations Officer Mcbride Suzanne E. covered exercise/tax liability with 3,623 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 260,991 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- CAO Iridium Satellite LLC Kapalka Timothy covered exercise/tax liability with 693 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 35,038 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- EVP-Government Programs Scheimreif Scott covered exercise/tax liability with 2,207 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.85% to 257,552 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- Chief Executive Officer Desch Matthew J covered exercise/tax liability with 9,583 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.66% to 1,441,434 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Chief Legal Officer Morgan Kathleen A. covered exercise/tax liability with 2,053 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 122,818 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- Furuno Unveils New SOLION-100 Terminal for Iridium GMDSS
- SEC Form 425 filed by Iridium Communications Inc
- SEC Form DEFM14A filed by Iridium Communications Inc
Latest LITE
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen sold $1,368,495 worth of shares (1,500 units at $912.33) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 117,627 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Deutsche Bank initiated coverage on Lumentum with a new price target
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Evercore ISI initiated coverage on Lumentum with a new price target
- SEC Form 144 filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. was granted 7,941 shares and sold $525,346 worth of shares (548 units at $958.66) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 186,951 units (SEC Form 4)
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. was granted 66,764 shares, increasing direct ownership by 56% to 185,743 units (SEC Form 4)
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen was granted 5,138 shares and sold $479,330 worth of shares (500 units at $958.66) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 119,127 units (SEC Form 4)