Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) on Tuesday, soared 2.58% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $25.99. Within the past 52 weeks, KTOS’s price has moved between $16.71 and $28.71.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 11.00% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 11.54%. With a float of $147.75 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $151.02 million.
The firm has a total of 3900 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 24.69%, operating margin of 3.38%, and the pretax margin is 2.67%.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Aerospace & Defense industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc is 2.20%, while institutional ownership is 86.71%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 16 ’24, was worth 322,181. In this transaction President, C5ISR Division of this company sold 11,516 shares at a rate of $27.98, taking the stock ownership to the 12,315 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 16 ’24, when Company’s SVP & General Counsel sold 1,500 for $27.96, making the entire transaction worth $41,942. This insider now owns 55,631 shares in total.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.54% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 2.00% during the next five years compared to -15.14% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Trading Performance Indicators
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 2.61 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.57. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 529.95.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.10, a number that is poised to hit 0.10 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.58 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc, KTOS], we can find that recorded value of 1.43 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.14 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 30.88%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.07.
During the past 100 days, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s (KTOS) raw stochastic average was set at 81.02%, which indicates a significant increase from 44.14% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 46.92% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 41.81% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $25.67, while its 200-day Moving Average is $21.89. Now, the first resistance to watch is $26.98. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $27.29. The third major resistance level sits at $27.87. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $26.09, it is likely to go to the next support level at $25.51. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $25.20.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 4.03 billion based on 151,074K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,037 M and income totals -8,900 K. The company made 275,900 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 3,200 K in sales during its previous quarter.
