Currently, there are 151.09M common shares owned by the public and among those 148.95M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.25% and 13.06% over the past three months. KTOS shares are trading 16.79% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 79.75% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $17.05 and touched a high of $35.66 over the same period. KTOS has an average intraday trading volume of 2.40 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 8.58%, 1.33%, and 22.71% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) shares accounts for 88.55% of the company’s 151.09M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $4.71B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.99. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 289.02, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.11. The company has a PEG of 15.54 and a Quick Ratio of 2.39 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.21. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.43% over the week and 5.20% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.76%, and 38.06% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 18.60% over the next five years, compared to -1.16% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the KTOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. B. Riley Securities stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on January 13, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $26-$35. B. Riley Securities coverage for the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock in a research note released on October 30, 2024 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $26. BTIG Research was of a view on June 26, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while JMP Securities gave the stock Mkt Outperform rating on May 28, 2024, issuing a price target of $27. Raymond James on their part issued Strong Buy rating on April 26, 2024.
