Echostar (SATS)
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Rating:46Neutral
Price Target:
$131.00
▼(-1.66% Downside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:03/20/26
The score is held down primarily by sharply deteriorated financial performance (large losses, higher leverage, and negative free cash flow). Technical signals are mildly weak/neutral, while earnings-call and corporate-event updates provide some offset via potential cash inflows and deleveraging actions, though regulatory and litigation risks remain meaningful.
Positive Factors
Debt Restructuring
A formal restructuring agreement and the $1.6B prepayment directly reduce expensive near-term obligations and interest burden. This materially improves capital structure durability, lowers refinancing risk, and increases financial flexibility to fund operations or invest over the next 2–6 months.
Negative Factors
Extremely High Leverage
A debt-to-equity ratio near 9.5x signals acute solvency stress and limited loss-absorbing capacity. Even with restructuring, the heavy leverage increases default and covenant risk, constrains strategic choices, and raises the company's sensitivity to cash-flow volatility over coming quarters.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Debt Restructuring
A formal restructuring agreement and the $1.6B prepayment directly reduce expensive near-term obligations and interest burden. This materially improves capital structure durability, lowers refinancing risk, and increases financial flexibility to fund operations or invest over the next 2–6 months.
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Echostar (SATS) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Market Cap
$37.96B
Dividend YieldN/A
Average Volume (3M)7.42M
Price to Earnings (P/E)―
Beta (1Y)0.97
Revenue Growth-44.95%
EPS Growth-430.47%
CountryUS
Employees13,700
SectorCommunication Services
Sector Strength97
IndustryCommunication Equipment
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)-4.27
Shares Outstanding157,527,390
10 Day Avg. Volume5,148,830
30 Day Avg. Volume7,424,737
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio>-0.01
Price to Book (P/B)5.42
Price to Sales (P/S)2.08
P/FCF Ratio-29.35
Enterprise Value/Market Cap1.78
Enterprise Value/Revenue4.49
Enterprise Value/Gross Profit12.13
Enterprise Value/Ebitda-4.27
Forecast
1Y Price Target
$125.67Price Target Upside-5.66% Downside
Rating ConsensusModerate Buy
Number of Analyst Covering3
EPS Forecast (FY)-1.69
Revenue Forecast (FY)$14.41B
Echostar Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
EchoStar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides networking technologies and services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Hughes and EchoStar Satellite Services (ESS). The Hughes segment offers broadband network technolo...
How the Company Makes Money
EchoStar primarily makes money by selling satellite communications capacity and delivering managed connectivity services built on that capacity. Key revenue streams typically include: (1) Satellite services/capacity: leasing transponder or bandwid...
Echostar Earnings Call Summary
Earnings Call Date:Mar 02, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:May 07, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Neutral
Mixed: the company articulated clear strategic positives — an expected inflow from a spectrum sale, a pragmatic capital-allocation framework, an operational partnership with SpaceX/Starlink, and management's view that DISH Wireless is nearing profitability — but these are balanced by material negatives including a roughly $16 billion decommissioning write-off, ongoing tower litigation after payment suspension, regulatory uncertainty from FCC actions, and significant valuation/timing uncertainty around the SpaceX equity. Management narrowed expected cash liabilities to ~$5–7 billion and highlighted progress on settlements, but near-term legal, regulatory, and valuation risks leave the situation balanced between opportunity and downside.Positive Updates
Pending Spectrum Sale and Expected Capital Influx
EchoStar Capital is awaiting final regulatory approvals for a spectrum sale with proceeds expected in the first half of the year; management plans to allocate proceeds across paying down expensive or maturing debt, tax liabilities, investments, and potential shareholder returns.
Negative Updates
Tower Payment Suspension and Ongoing Litigation
EchoStar (through its DISH Wireless entity) stopped making tower payments after declaring a force majeure following FCC action; several tower companies have initiated litigation, which management expects could be protracted, increasing legal and operational uncertainty.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Positive
Negative
Pending Spectrum Sale and Expected Capital Influx
EchoStar Capital is awaiting final regulatory approvals for a spectrum sale with proceeds expected in the first half of the year; management plans to allocate proceeds across paying down expensive or maturing debt, tax liabilities, investments, and potential shareholder returns.
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Company Guidance
The company provided limited forward guidance: it expects the cash inflow from a pending spectrum sale to arrive in the first half of the year and will consider allocations including paying down maturing/expensive debt, addressing tax liabilities, making investments, and potential returns to shareholders; EchoStar reiterated it is in a quiet period for FCC Auction 113 and will not comment on auction matters. Management noted the previously discussed ~2.8% SpaceX stake (initially cited at roughly $400 billion) remains unclosed and valuation/structure is uncertain (the Starlink/xAI merger was described publicly as roughly 80/20). On costs and decommissioning, the company said it has written off about $16 billion related to network decommissioning and now estimates cash decommissioning/tax payments of roughly $5–7 billion (down from prior $7–10 billion). All customers were moved off the network in Q4, DISH Wireless’s network assets sit in the “Other” segment (antennas, servers, radios), and management expects connectivity/decommissioning expenses in the Other segment to decline substantially in Q1–Q2 (an analyst estimated ~70% reduction in Q4), noting that roughly half of remaining expense is non‑cash accretion of lease liabilities. Management said DISH Wireless is “very, very, very close” to break‑even, and referenced OIBDA and free cash flow metrics with GAAP reconciliations in the earnings release/Form 10‑K.Echostar Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
12
Very Negative
Balance Sheet
18
Very Negative
Cash Flow
22
Negative
| Breakdown | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 | Dec 2022 | Dec 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | |||||
| Total Revenue | 15.00B | 15.83B | 17.02B | 18.63B | 19.82B |
| Gross Profit | 5.56B | 5.69B | 5.07B | 6.42B | 7.32B |
| EBITDA | -15.79B | 2.34B | -247.35M | 4.59B | 4.67B |
| Net Income | -23.28B | -119.55M | -1.70B | 2.48B | 2.49B |
Balance Sheet | |||||
| Total Assets | 43.02B | 60.94B | 57.11B | 58.75B | 6.05B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 2.06B | 5.55B | 2.44B | 4.31B | 1.55B |
| Total Debt | 31.01B | 29.81B | 25.89B | 25.72B | 1.65B |
| Total Liabilities | 37.20B | 40.69B | 36.72B | 36.70B | 2.63B |
| Stockholders Equity | 5.77B | 20.19B | 19.88B | 21.49B | 3.35B |
Cash Flow | |||||
| Free Cash Flow | -1.07B | -292.18M | -668.27M | 570.72M | 160.25M |
| Operating Cash Flow | -99.37M | 1.25B | 2.43B | 3.62B | 632.23M |
| Investing Cash Flow | -1.40B | -3.05B | -2.81B | -9.06B | 168.81M |
| Financing Cash Flow | -910.31M | 4.48B | -277.12M | -274.45M | -1.16B |
Echostar Technical Analysis
Positive
133.21
Price Trends
115.37
Positive
110.26
Positive
83.04
Positive
Market Momentum
5.05
Negative
64.09
Neutral
80.89
Negative
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For SATS, the sentiment is Positive. The current price of 133.21 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 121.54, above the 50-day MA of 115.37, and above the 200-day MA of 83.04, indicating a bullish trend. The MACD of 5.05 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 64.09 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 80.89 is Negative, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Positive sentiment for SATS.
Echostar Risk Analysis
Echostar disclosed 55 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Echostar reported the most risks in the "Finance & Corporate" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
Latest Risks Added 0 New Risks
Echostar Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (60)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
67 Neutral | $1.39B | 37.11 | 5.50% | ― | 29.67% | 41.90% | |
61 Neutral | $8.14B | 44.93 | -7.45% | ― | 1.23% | -31.80% | |
60 Neutral | $48.67B | 4.58 | -11.27% | 4.14% | 2.83% | -41.78% | |
59 Neutral | $33.20B | -54.37 | -30.27% | ― | 641.24% | 41.70% | |
48 Neutral | $111.50M | ― | 4.39% | ― | -1.89% | 76.61% | |
47 Neutral | $52.69M | -8.96 | -19.98% | ― | 93.47% | 37.19% | |
46 Neutral | $37.96B | -1.34 | -177.50% | ― | -44.95% | -430.47% |
* Communication Services Sector Average
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Echostar Corporate Events
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
EchoStar Launches Major Debt Restructuring and Deleveraging Plan
Positive
Mar 19, 2026
On March 19, 2026, EchoStar Corporation, DISH Network Corporation, DISH DBS Corporation and certain subsidiaries entered into a Restructuring Support Agreement with an ad hoc group representing more than 82% of holders of DDBS debt securities. The...
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