EchoStar Corporation (ECHO)

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EchoStar Corporation's filings since 2017 show 6 warning events of 2 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, the latest 2026-08-03); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 5 times, the latest 2026-08-03) (its current reports).

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EchoStar Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $15 billion in fiscal 2025, up 26.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 24% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, EchoStar Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 1% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 40 sales (29 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $158 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, EchoStar Corporation lost about 250 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 86 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 4.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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EchoStar Corporation's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 3% by size; a net margin of -96.7% ranks in the bottom 24%; revenue growth of -7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 24% (its annual reports).

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EchoStar Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Ergen, Charles W (CHAIRMAN, PRES and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-12-02, 11 months (bottom 13% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.6 years (top 46%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 43%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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EchoStar Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.9 billion against debt of $19 billion leaves -39% of its assets as net cash, bottom 29% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -7.1% of revenue (top 42%); research spending of 0.5% of revenue (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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EchoStar Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -7% a year over the last three filed years against 26.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 3% of its family); the newest year grew -5.2% (bottom 32%); research spending grew -14.8% a year (bottom 46%); capital spending grew -31.8% a year (bottom 9%) (its annual reports). EchoStar Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Service at $14 billion (94%), Equipment Sales and Other Revenue at $981 million (7%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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EchoStar Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.9% above the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $15 billion against a prior three-year average of $259 million (bottom 12%); a net margin of -96.7% against 1.1% before (bottom 9%) (its annual reports).