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 $67.19B, about 13.4x IRDM ($5.01B).
- Over the past year, IRDM is up 65.8% and LITE is up 951.7% - LITE leads by 885.9 points.
- LITE has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 10 for IRDM).
- LITE has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 22 for IRDM).
- Company
- Iridium Communications Inc
- Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Price
- $47.37-9.02%
- $863.26-8.66%
- Market cap
- $5.01B
- $67.19B
- 1M return
- +16.62%
- -8.66%
- 1Y return
- +65.79%
- +951.73%
- Industry
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Telecommunications Equipment
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 10
- 14
- Recent ratings
- 22
- 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 1,459 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 128,405 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- CAO Iridium Satellite LLC Kapalka Timothy was granted 4,175 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 692 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 49,204 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- EVP, Sales & Marketing Last Timothy James covered exercise/tax liability with 1,498 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 112,934 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- EVP-Government Programs Scheimreif Scott covered exercise/tax liability with 2,205 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.84% to 259,759 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- Chief Executive Officer Desch Matthew J covered exercise/tax liability with 9,583 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.66% to 1,451,017 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Chief Legal Officer Morgan Kathleen A. covered exercise/tax liability with 2,052 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 158,063 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
- Chief Operations Officer Mcbride Suzanne E. covered exercise/tax liability with 3,622 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.98% to 367,471 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Director Canfield Thomas C returned 136 shares to the company, decreasing direct ownership by 0.06% to 233,655 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Iridium Communications Inc
- Iridium Communications Inc filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits
Latest LITE
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $1,416,115 worth of shares (1,416 units at $1,000.08) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 6,984 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Harris Isaac Hosojiro sold $3,440,000 worth of shares (4,000 units at $860.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 32% to 8,400 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- SEC Form 8-K filed by Lumentum Holdings Inc.
- Director Small Ian sold $4,300,419 worth of shares (4,954 units at $868.07), decreasing direct ownership by 19% to 21,008 units (SEC Form 4)
- REX Shares Launches T-REX 2X ASTS (ASUP) & 2X LITE (LITU) ETFs
- PRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS Wupen Yuen covered exercise/tax liability with 3,741 shares and sold $3,062,180 worth of shares (3,210 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 81,488 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- Officer Retort Vincent covered exercise/tax liability with 3,299 shares and sold $3,036,423 worth of shares (3,183 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 89,563 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL Kim Jae covered exercise/tax liability with 1,416 shares and sold $1,356,517 worth of shares (1,422 units at $953.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 32,333 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- President and CEO Hurlston Michael E. covered exercise/tax liability with 5,438 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 124,417 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax