Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $43.28, with 4.81 million shares of worth about $208.01 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 63.20% during that period and on July 02, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.49%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 166.43M shares, out of which, 162.54M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.24% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.77%. Year-to-date (YTD), KTOS shares are showing a performance of 116.29% which increased to 64.06% 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 $47.09 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares is 2.91 million. The stock is currently trading 2.97% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 14.22% for SMA50 and it goes to 42.65% higher than SMA200.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) currently have 166.43M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 95.05% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $7.20B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.04. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 342.68, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.13 in the same period. Its PEG reads 15.97 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 7.13% while standing at 5.48% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.09 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.13 and it is 0.71 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.05 which is 0.13 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.14 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 3.94% while it is estimated to increase by 37.17% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 21.46% 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 Goldman on June 30, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $52 to it. Coverage by Stifel stated Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 24, 2025, suggesting a price target of $52 for the stock. On January 13, 2025, B. Riley Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 30, 2024, B. Riley Securities Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $26. Stock get a Neutral rating from BTIG Research on June 26, 2024.
