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Largest Satellite Communications Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
EchoStar, AST SpaceMobile, Planet Labs, Globalstar and Viasat.
 | Satellite television provides the bulk of EchoStar’s revenue. The firm serves about 5 million US satellite customers, about 10% of the traditional television market. It also serves 2 million customers under the Sling brand. EchoStar has also amassed an extensive portfolio of spectrum licenses and is building a nationwide wireless network. It acquired Sprint's prepaid business, serving approximately 7 million customers, primarily under the Boost brand. The firm has agreed to sell a portion of its wireless licenses to AT&T and SpaceX, and will rely heavily on the AT&T network to serve customers. EchoStar’s legacy businesses provide satellite telecom services and equipment to businesses and consumers, including about 800,000 internet customers. | $137 | +670% | $40B | $66B | 4.4x | 44.4x | ||
| AST SpaceMobile Inc is a satellite designer and manufacturer. The company is building a cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices, and off-the-shelf mobile phones based on extensive IP and patent portfolio. It has focused on eliminating the connectivity gaps faced by mobile subscribers. The Company's spaceMobile Service is being designed to provide cost-effective, high-speed Cellular Broadband services to end-users who are out of terrestrial cellular coverage using existing mobile devices. | $88 | +282% | $26B | $26B | 370.6x | (139.0x) | ||
| Planet Labs PBC is an Earth-imaging company. It uses space to help life on Earth by imaging the world every day and making change visible, accessible, and actionable. Its platform includes imagery, insights, and machine learning that empower companies, governments, and communities around the world to make timely decisions about the evolving world. Its solutions are Broad Area Management. Its products are Planet Monitoring, Planet Tasking, Planet Analytic Feeds, Planetary Variables, Planet Basemaps, Planet Insights, and Platform Pricing. The group provides solutions to the Agriculture Science Program, Energy & Infrastructure, Forestry & Land Use, Mapping, Sustainability, Maritime, Civil Government, U.S. State and Local, Europe, Planet Federal, Defense & Intelligence, and Armed Services. | $42 | +983% | $15B | $15B | 47.6x | 945.1x | ||
| Globalstar Inc is a telecommunications company that derives revenue from the provision of mobile satellite services. Mobile satellite services are typically used by customers where existing terrestrial wireline and wireless communications networks are impaired or do not exist. The company provides communications services such as two-way voice and data transmission. In addition, one-way data transmission is also offered. Both services are offered using mobile or fixed devices. The company is an owner of satellite assets. It has one reportable segment: MSS business. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue within the United States. | $82 | +343% | $11B | $11B | 39.2x | 78.6x | ||
| Viasat Inc provides bandwidth technologies and services in three segments: communication services and defense and advanced technologies. The communication services segment provides a wide range of broadband and narrowband communications solutions across government and commercial mobility markets, as well as for residential and enterprise fixed broadband customers: and the defense and advanced technologies segment develops and offers a diverse array of resilient, vertically integrated solutions to government and commercial customers, leveraging core technical competencies in encryption, cyber security, tactical gateways, modems and waveforms. A large majority of the firm's revenue is generated from communication services segment. | $71 | +713% | $10B | $15B | 3.3x | 9.7x | ||
| Loar Holdings Inc in the design, manufacture, and sale of niche aerospace and defense components that are essential for today’s aircraft and aerospace and defense systems. Its manufactured products includes auto throttles, lap-belt airbags, two- and three-point seat belts, water purification systems, fire barriers, polyimide washers and bushings, latches, hold-open and tie rods, temperature and fluid sensors and switches, carbon and metallic brake discs, fluid and pneumatic-based ice protection, RAM air components, sealing solutions and motion and actuation devices, among others. | $59 | -32% | $6B | $6B | 12.9x | 33.9x | ||
| Intuitive Machines Inc is a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company. It is a diversified space company focused on space exploration. It supplies space products and services to support sustained robotic and human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Its products and services are offered through its four business units: Lunar Access Services, Orbital Services, Lunar Data Services, and Space Products and Infrastructure. The Company operates in one operating segment and one reportable segment underpinned by three core pillars (delivery services, data transmission services, and infrastructure as a service) that have similar capabilities, customers, and economic characteristics. Revenue is from contracts with customers of orbital and lunar access services. | $32 | +184% | $5B | $5B | 25.8x | (84.2x) | ||
| Iridium Communications Inc is the commercial provider of communications services offering true globalised coverage, connecting people, organizations, and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. The company is a provider of mobile voice and data communications services through a constellation of low-earth-orbiting satellites. Iridium's solutions are ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation, and utilities. Iridium also provides service to subscribers from the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as other civil and government agencies world-wide. The Company operates in one business segment, providing satellite communications services and products. | $44 | +72% | $5B | $6B | 7.2x | 12.6x | ||
| BlackSky Technology Inc is a provider of real-time geospatial intelligence. The company delivers on-demand, high-frequency imagery, monitoring, and analytics of some of the critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events in the world. It designs, owns, and operates one of the industry’s low earth orbit (LEO) small satellite constellations, optimized to capture imagery cost-efficiently where and when its customers need it. its Spectra AI software platform processes data from BlackSky's constellation and other third-party sensors to develop the critical insights and analytics that provide its customers with the actionable intelligence. Geographically, the company operates in North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Others. | $45 | +304% | $2B | $2B | 16.6x | 1970.6x | ||
| Satellogic Inc is a vertically integrated Earth observation company that designs, manufactures, and operates satellite systems, delivering decision-grade insights at scale to government and commercial customers. Through an end-to-end production and operations model, it provides governments with flexible options across their journey toward sovereign Earth observation. From access to high-frequency imagery and managed space systems to full satellite ownership, to supporting autonomous data availability and long-term technological independence. It has monitoring and alert-driven workflows that help defense and intelligence agencies, civil governments, and commercial operators transition from reactive tasking to proactive decision-making, providing mission-critical data when needed. | $10 | +162% | $1B | $1B | 82.4x | 400.7x | ||
| Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd is a provider of satellite-based broadband communications. The company designs and manufactures ground-based satellite communications equipment and provides comprehensive solutions and end-to-end services. Its portfolio includes a cloud-based satellite network platform, very small aperture terminals (VSATs), amplifiers, high-speed modems, on-the-move antennas and high-power solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs), block-up converters (BUCs), and Transceivers. The company's solutions support multiple applications with a full portfolio of products to address key applications including broadband access, cellular backhaul, enterprise, in-flight connectivity, maritime, trains, defense, and public safety. | $15 | +169% | $1B | $968M | 2.1x | 18.2x | ||
| Spire Global Inc is a provider of space-based data, analytics, and Space Services, offering datasets and powerful insights about Earth from the ultimate vantage point of space so that organizations can make decisions with confidence, accuracy, and speed. It generates revenue from four solutions: Maritime, Aviation, Weather, and Space Services. It offers the following three data solutions to customers; Maritime-precise space-based data used for accurate ship monitoring, ship safety, and route optimization, Aviation-precise space-based data used for accurate aircraft monitoring, aircraft safety, and route optimization, and Weather-precise space-based data used for accurate weather forecasting. | $19 | +84% | $741M | $703M | 9.8x | 9.0x | ||
| Gemini Space Station Inc is engaged on unlocking the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. It envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging crypto economy, It is providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure. Its core exchange product has expanded over time to become a comprehensive platform for its users to engage with the crypto economy, including a derivatives exchange, staking services, an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk, institutional-grade custody, and others. | $5 | -- | $625M | $615M | 3.4x | (2.5x) | ||
| Gogo Inc is a broadband connectivity service for the business aviation market. It provides a customizable suite of smart cabin systems for integrated connectivity, inflight entertainment, and voice solutions. Its business segment includes Gogo BA and Satcom Direct. It generates two types of revenue: service revenue consists of monthly subscription and usage fees paid by aircraft owners and operators for telecommunication, data, and in-flight entertainment services, and equipment revenue consists of proceeds from the sale of ATG and narrowband satellite connectivity equipment and is recognized when control of the equipment is transferred to OEMs and dealers, which generally occurs when the equipment is shipped. | $4 | -62% | $552M | $1B | 1.5x | 6.2x | ||
| KVH Industries Inc provides integrated, end-to-end services, software, and hardware that support its customers' need for access to the Internet, VoIP, operations content, and entertainment services. It offers high-speed Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services via satellite and integrated 5G/LTE cellular communications to mobile users at sea and on land. The company also provides commercially licensed entertainment, including news, sports, music, and movies, to commercial and leisure customers in the maritime, hotel, and retail markets. It operates in several geographic areas, including internationally. Revenues are generated from international locations, mainly consisting of Singapore, Canada, South America, European Union and other European countries, and other regions. | $10 | +90% | $201M | $146M | 1.3x | 18.0x | ||
| Comtech Telecommunications Corp is a provider of communications technology and solutions. It operates in two reportable business segments: Satellite and Space Communications and Allerium. The company's Satellite and Space Communications segment, which generates maximum revenue, is organized into four technology areas: satellite modem and amplifier technologies, troposcatter technologies, cybersecurity training, and space components. This segment designs and manufactures modems, amplifiers, traveling wave tube amplifiers, frequency converters, and offers other associated software and services. The Allerium segment provides next-generation 911 (NG-911) infrastructure and solutions for state and local governments and carriers. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from the USA. | $4 | +78% | $110M | $530M | 1.1x | 56.4x | ||
| Vislink Technologies Inc is a technology business specializing in collecting, delivering, and managing high-quality, live video and associated data from the scene of the action to the viewing screen. The company provides RF and 5G solutions for collecting live news, sports, entertainment, and news events for the broadcast, surveillance, and defense markets with real-time video intelligence using a range of transmission products. The company provides professional and technical services utilizing a staff of technology experts with decades of applied knowledge and real-world experience in terrestrial microwave, satellite, fiber optic, surveillance, and wireless communications systems, delivering a broad spectrum of customer solutions. | $3 | +9% | $7M | $2M | — | — | ||
| Airborne Wireless Network is an early stage company with the principal business of developing, marketing and licensing a fully meshed, high-speed broadband airborne wireless network by linking commercial aircraft in flight. It calls this network the Infinitus Super Highway. | -- | -- | $2M | $4M | — | — | ||
| Median | $32 | +165% | $2B | $2B | 8.5x | 18.1x |
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