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Robert H Niehaus bought $525k of IRDM

director at Iridium Communications Inc.. 30,000 shares at an average of $17.49, traded Oct 28, 2025, filed Oct 29, 2025.

Conviction score
62
Value
$525k
30,000 shares
Holdings after
297,363
+11% from before
From 52-week low
+0%
low $16.93, close $16.97
From 52-week high
-46%
high $31.50, as of Oct 28, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $525k at market
    +18
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 11%
    +3
  • Price context
    0% above the 52-week low; 46% below the 52-week high
    +18
  • Cluster
    2 insiders buying within 14 days
    +8
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

This signal so far: 1m -3.1%, 3m +26.2%, 6m +118.0%.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

IRDMOct 12, 2026 · close 47.07
Since filing Oct 29, 2025: +183.8%SPY +14.4% · excess +169.4%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001123292-25-000595, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Oct 28, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+30,000$17.49$525k297,363Oct 29, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at Iridium Communications Inc. and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
28Weak
IRDMsell
Iridium Communications Inc.
Timothy James Last
EVP, Sales & Marketing
$267k
5,769 shares
-6%
25Weak
IRDMsell
Iridium Communications Inc.
Timothy James Last
EVP, Sales & Marketing
$95k
2,013 shares
-2%
75Notable
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Chief Financial Officer
$11M
224,279 shares
-84%
46Moderate
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Eric T Olson
director
$405k
8,000 shares
-5%
60Notable
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Kathleen A. Morgan
Chief Legal Officer
$1.7M
33,192 shares
-21%
65Notable
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Suzanne E. McBride
Chief Operations Officer
$4.3M
85,454 shares
-23%
61Notable
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Timothy Kapalka
CAO Iridium Satellite LLC
$681k
13,473 shares
-27%
60Notable
IRDMsell 6
Iridium Communications Inc.
Timothy James Last
EVP, Sales & Marketing
$983k
19,521 shares
-17%
12Weak
IRDMsell10b5-1
Iridium Communications Inc.
Timothy Kapalka
CAO Iridium Satellite LLC
$185k
5,833 shares
-11%
66Notable
IRDMbuy 2
Iridium Communications Inc.
Matthew J Desch
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
$347k
20,000 shares
+2%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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