During the last session, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s traded shares were 3.04 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.03. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $46.27, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.54% or $0.25. The 52-week high for the KTOS share is $47.09, that puts it down -1.77 from that peak though still a striking 61.29% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $17.91. The company’s market capitalization is $7.70B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.5 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.97 million shares over the past three months.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.47. KTOS has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 6 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.09.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) trade information
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) registered a 0.54% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.54% in intraday trading to $46.27, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 6.91%, and it has moved by 13.99% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 75.40%. The short interest in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) is 10.44 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.89 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $54, which implies an increase of 14.31% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $54 and $54 respectively. As a result, KTOS is trading at a discount of -16.71% off the target high and -16.71% off the low.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 13.13% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 305.83M as predicted by 13 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 13 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 327.78M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 300.1M and 275.9M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 1.91% and then jump by 18.80% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -1.16%. While earnings are projected to return 5.44% in 2025, the next five years will return 24.25% per annum.
KTOS Dividends
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-07. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s Major holders
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc insiders own 1.90% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 95.65%, with the float percentage being 97.51%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 511.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 13.89 million shares (or 9.1498% of all shares), a total value of $277.93 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 12.88 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.4838% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $257.7 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 9.19 shares. This amounts to just over 5.99 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $425.1 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 4.82, or about 3.14% of the stock, which is worth about $222.9 million.
