Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $54.28, with 6.88 million shares of worth about $373.22 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 75.72% during that period and on July 16, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 6.18%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 166.43M shares, out of which, 162.56M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 17.95% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 29.98%. Year-to-date (YTD), KTOS shares are showing a performance of 158.35% which increased to 105.76% 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 $52.70 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares is 3.23 million. The stock is currently trading 19.25% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 34.03% for SMA50 and it goes to 72.39% higher than SMA200.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) currently have 166.43M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 95.09% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.03B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.03. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 429.77, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.13 in the same period. Its PEG reads 18.20 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 6.25% while standing at 6.21% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.35% while it is estimated to increase by 39.24% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 23.62% 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 Cantor Fitzgerald on July 08, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $60 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 30, 2025, suggesting a price target of $52 for the stock. On June 24, 2025, Stifel Initiated their recommendations, while on January 13, 2025, B. Riley Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $35. Stock get a Neutral rating from B. Riley Securities on October 30, 2024.
