Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Moves -2.64% Lower: These Numbers are Too Good to be True

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) open the trading on Thursday, with a bit cautious approach as it glided -2.64% to $31.70, before settling in for the price of $32.56 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, KTOS posted a 52-week range of $17.03-$35.66.

In the past 5-years timespan, the Industrials sector firm’s annual sales growth was 9.69%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -1.16%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 2.76%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $151.09 million, simultaneously with a float of $149.27 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $4.85 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $30.36, while the 200-day Moving Average is $25.06.

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 2.34%, in contrast to 88.55% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 17 ’25, this organization’s SVP & General Counsel sold 2,031 shares at the rate of 31.36, making the entire transaction reach 63,699 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 69,288. Preceding that transaction, on Mar 17 ’25, Company’s President, STC Division sold 6,000 for 31.38, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 188,298. This particular insider is now the holder of 293,897 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 0.11 per share during the current fiscal year.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 2.76% and is forecasted to reach 0.70 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 18.60% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -1.16% 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 2.39. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.42. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $297.37, and its Beta score is 0.98. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.26.

In the same vein, KTOS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.11, a figure that is expected to reach 0.09 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 0.70 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 superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 87.20% While, its Average True Range was 1.43.

Raw Stochastic average of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 69.47%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 86.63% 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 47.58% that was lower than 50.52% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.