Should You Consider Buying Iridium Communications (IRDM) Shares?

Baron Funds, an asset management firm, published its “Baron Growth Fund” fourth quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 6.56% was delivered by the fund’s institutional shares for the fourth quarter of 2021 and 15.84% for the year. This exceeded the Fund’s primary benchmark, the Russell 2000 Growth Index (the “Benchmark”), which gained 0.01%. The S&P 500 Index, which measures the performance of publicly-traded large-cap U.S. companies, gained 11.03% during the period. For the full year, the Fund gained 20.15%, meaningfully exceeding its Benchmark, which gained 2.83%. Spare some time to check the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a clue about their top bets for 2022.

Baron Growth Fund, in its Q4 2021 investor letter, mentioned Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) and discussed its stance on the firm. Iridium Communications Inc. is a McLean, Virginia-based global satellite communications company with a $4.5 billion market capitalization. IRDM delivered a -17.05% return since the beginning of the year, while its 12-month returns are down by -27.93%. The stock closed at $34.25 per share on February 11, 2022.

Here is what Baron Growth Fund has to say about Iridium Communications Inc. in its Q4 2021 investor letter:

“Our Disruptive Growth investments are pursuing idiosyncratic opportunities across the entirety of the global economy. Iridium Communications Inc. is disrupting traditional satellite-based communication with its Iridium Next constellation. Iridium can leverage its fixed cost structure and unique technology to enable inexpensive near-universal satellite connectivity for devices and equipment even into the most remote corners of the earth.”

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Our calculations show that Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) failed to obtain a mark on our list of the 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. IRDM was in 24 hedge fund portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2021, compared to 18 funds in the previous quarter. Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) delivered a -18.51% return in the past 3 months.

In March 2021, we also shared another hedge fund’s views on IRDM in another article. You can find other letters from hedge funds and prominent investors on our hedge fund investor letters 2021 Q4 page.

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