In the last trading session, 3.58 million shares of the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) were traded, and its beta was 1.03. Most recently the company’s share price was $44.78, and it changed around $0.12 or 0.27% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $7.45B. KTOS currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $47.09, offering almost -5.16% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $17.91, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 60.0% since then. We note from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 6.88 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.96 million.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.50. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 12 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended KTOS as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) trade information
Instantly KTOS has showed a green trend with a performance of 0.27% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 47.09 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 4.91%. The company’s shares are currently up 120.27% year-to-date, but still down -2.31% over the last five days. On the other hand, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) is 11.67% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 10.44 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.89 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $54, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 17.07% from its current value. Analyst projections state that KTOS is forecast to be at a low of $54 and a high of $54.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -1.16%. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc earnings are expected to increase by 3.94% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 21.46% per year for the next five years.
KTOS Dividends
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-07.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 1.90% of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares, and 95.65% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 97.51%. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc stock is held by 511.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.1498% of the shares, which is about 13.89 million shares worth $277.93 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 8.4838% or 12.88 million shares worth $257.7 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of May 31, 2025 . The former held 9.19 shares worth $411.41 million, making up 5.99% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 4.82 shares worth around $215.72 million, which represents about 3.14% of the total shares outstanding.
