Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) is 28.62% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $17.91 and a high of $36.85 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 $33.61 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.32%.
Currently trading at $33.93, the stock is -0.06% and 7.32% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.21 million and changing 0.95% at the moment leaves the stock 24.79% off its SMA200. KTOS registered 71.02% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 39.80%.
The stock witnessed a 7.00% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 2.54%, and is -5.43% 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 4.76% over the week and 4.13% over the month.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) has around 4000 employees, a market worth around $5.21B and $1.16B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 268.65 and Fwd P/E is 48.85. Profit margin for the company is 1.68%. Distance from 52-week low is 89.45% and -7.92% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (1.18%).
with sales reaching $305.67M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 2.67% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 13.05% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 1.86% in year-over-year returns.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 153.35M, and float is at 149.58M with Short Float at 6.33%.
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 9.1498% 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 8.4838 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 6.71 million shares representing 4.4198% and valued at over $134.25 million, while ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC holds 3.0704 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 purchase by DEMARCO ERIC M, the company’s President & CEO. SEC filings show that DEMARCO ERIC M bought 7,455 shares of the company’s common stock on May 12 ’25 at a price of $33.59 per share for a total of $0.25 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 1.4 million shares.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 01 ’25 that Rock Stacey G (President, KTT Division) sold a total of 4,000 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 01 ’25 and was made at $33.91 per share for $0.14 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 53812.0 shares of the KTOS stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 01 ’25, Lund Deanna H (EVP & CFO) disposed off 6,000 shares at an average price of $33.91 for $0.2 million. The insider now directly holds 325,427 shares of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS).
