Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s traded shares stood at 0.62 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.99. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $31.12, to imply a decrease of -1.81% or -$0.58 in intraday trading. The KTOS share’s 52-week high remains $35.66, putting it -14.59% down since that peak but still an impressive 45.21% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $17.05. The company has a valuation of $4.76B, with an average of 3.54 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.40 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS), translating to a mean rating of 1.69. Of 6 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give KTOS a Sell rating. 1 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 3 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.09.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) trade information
After registering a -1.81% downside in the latest session, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 2.28%, and 19.76% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 17.99%. Short interest in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) saw shorts transact 5.09 million shares and set a 2.3 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $26 and $35 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, KTOS has been trading -12.47% off suggested target high and 16.45% from its likely low.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 12.83% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 12 analysts is 292.25M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 12 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 313.37M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 277.2M and 300.1M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 5.43% before jumping 4.42% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -1.16% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 2.76% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 18.60% annually.
KTOS Dividends
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-25. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s Major holders
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc insiders hold 1.88% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 89.13% of the shares at 90.84% float percentage. In total, 89.13% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 13.89 million shares (or 9.9495% of shares), all amounting to roughly $277.93 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 12.88 million shares, or about 9.2252% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $257.7 million.
We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 4.79 shares. This is just over 3.13% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $149.22 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.99, or 2.61% of the shares, all valued at about 124.27 million.
