In the last trading session, 2.88 million Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.99. With the company’s per share price at $31.25 changed hands at -$0.64 or -2.01% during last session, the market valuation stood at $4.78B. KTOS’s last price was a discount, traded about -14.11% off its 52-week high of $35.66. The share price had its 52-week low at $16.78, which suggests the last value was 46.3% up since then. When we look at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.39 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.34 million.
Analysts gave the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.69. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended KTOS as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.09.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) trade information
Instantly KTOS was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 7.54%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 18.46%, with the 5-day performance at 7.54% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) is 15.06% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.09 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.3 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 27, meaning bulls need a downside of -15.74% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, KTOS’s forecast low is 26 with 35 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -12.0% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 16.8% for it to hit the projected low.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 12.83% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 12 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 292.25M. 12 analysts are of the opinion that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 313.37M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 277.2M and 300.1M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 5.43%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 4.42%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -1.16%. The 2025 estimates are for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc earnings to increase by 2.76%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 18.60% per year.
KTOS Dividends
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-25.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.85% of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares while 89.87% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 91.56%. There are 89.87% institutions holding the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.9495% of the shares, roughly 13.89 million KTOS shares worth $277.93 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.2252% or 12.88 million shares worth $257.7 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 4.79 shares estimated at $149.6 million under it, the former controlled 3.13% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.61% of the shares, roughly 3.99 shares worth around $124.59 million.
