Currently, there are 129.29M common shares owned by the public and among those 126.99M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 82 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 32 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 249,183 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 50 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 351,121 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 18.32, down -3.89%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -12.80% and -3.84% over the past three months. KTOS shares are trading -11.04% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 58.61% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $11.19 and touched a high of $21.60 over the same period. KTOS has an average intraday trading volume of 1.06 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -1.78%, -4.96%, and 9.86% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) shares accounts for 87.35% of the company’s 129.29M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.35B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.81. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.61% over the week and 3.46% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) will achieve an EPS of $0.05 for the current quarter, $0.08 for the next quarter and $0.57 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.02 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.1. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.06 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 4.55%, and 30.27% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 2.00% over the next five years, compared to -15.14% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the KTOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Raymond James stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on July 20, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $17. Canaccord Genuity coverage for the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock in a research note released on February 24, 2023 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $14. Canaccord Genuity was of a view on November 04, 2022 that the stock is Hold, while Truist gave the stock Buy rating on May 26, 2022, issuing a price target of $20. Robert W. Baird on their part issued Outperform rating on May 12, 2022.
