Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $41.33, with 13.9 million shares of worth about $574.55 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 59.76% during that period and on June 26, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.36%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 153.35M shares, out of which, 149.86M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.97% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 8.42%. Year-to-date (YTD), KTOS shares are showing a performance of 101.81% which increased to 56.67% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $17.91 but also hit the highest price of $46.52 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares is 2.36 million. The stock is currently trading 1.74% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 11.87% for SMA50 and it goes to 38.33% higher than SMA200.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) currently have 153.35M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 103.14% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $6.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.02. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 327.24, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.13 in the same period. Its PEG reads 16.73 and has Quick Ratio of 2.26 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KTOS, volatility over the week remained 6.99% while standing at 4.83% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.85% while it is estimated to increase by 37.18% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 19.56% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -1.16% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Stifel on June 24, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $52 to it. Coverage by B. Riley Securities stated Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on January 13, 2025, suggesting a price target of $35 for the stock. Stock get a Mkt outperform rating from JMP Securities on May 28, 2024.
