Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) is set for another landmark as it hit the volume of 0.68 million

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) open the trading on Thursday, with a bit cautious approach as it glided -3.07% to $26.50, before settling in for the price of $27.34 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, KTOS posted a 52-week range of $16.71-$28.62.

The Industrials Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 11.00%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -15.14%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 11.54%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $151.02 million, simultaneously with a float of $147.74 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $4.00 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $25.43, while the 200-day Moving Average is $21.56.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Aerospace & Defense industry. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 2.21%, in contrast to 86.74% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 02 ’24, this organization’s President, KTT Division sold 4,000 shares at the rate of 26.73, making the entire transaction reach 106,935 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 47,007. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 02 ’24, Company’s EVP & CFO sold 6,000 for 26.73, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 160,372. This particular insider is now the holder of 267,708 in total.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.12 per share during the current fiscal year.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 11.54% and is forecasted to reach 0.58 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 2.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -15.14% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 2.61. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.98. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $266.87, and its Beta score is 1.07. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.55. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 526.77.

In the same vein, KTOS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.10, a figure that is expected to reach 0.10 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 0.58 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS)

[Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc, KTOS] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was poorer than the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 44.44% While, its Average True Range was 0.98.

Raw Stochastic average of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 80.21%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 20.09% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 38.45% that was lower than 40.50% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.