Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) is 26.50% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $16.71 and a high of $35.66 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The KTOS stock was last observed hovering at around $33.65 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.28%.
Currently trading at $33.37, the stock is 4.14% and 15.93% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.36 million and changing -0.83% at the moment leaves the stock 42.10% off its SMA200. KTOS registered 93.11% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 48.05%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $28.7836 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $23.484.
The stock witnessed a 25.83% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 37.95%, and is -2.23% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.94% over the week and 4.33% over the month.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) has around 3900 employees, a market worth around $5.04B and $1.13B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 336.05 and Fwd P/E is 57.53. Profit margin for the company is 1.31%. Distance from 52-week low is 99.70% and -6.42% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.91%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 11.24% this year.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Top Institutional Holders
439.0 institutions hold shares in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS), with institutional investors hold 90.42% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 151.02M, and float is at 147.45M with Short Float at 3.27%. Institutions hold 88.77% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 13.89 million shares valued at $277.93 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.9495% of the KTOS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 12.88 million shares valued at $257.7 million to account for 9.2252 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 6.71 million shares representing 4.8061% and valued at over $134.25 million, while ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC holds 3.3387 of the shares totaling 4.66 million with a market value of $93.26 million.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Fendley Steven S., the company’s President, US Division. SEC filings show that Fendley Steven S. sold 7,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jan 27 ’25 at a price of $33.16 per share for a total of $0.23 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.37 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Jan 15 ’25, Mendoza Marie (SVP & General Counsel) disposed off 1,500 shares at an average price of $33.30 for $49950.0. The insider now directly holds 61,782 shares of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS).
