Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) kicked off on Friday, down -8.55% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $30.42. Over the past 52 weeks, KTOS has traded in a range of $17.05-$35.66.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Industrials sector was 9.69%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 2.76%. With a float of $148.97 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $151.09 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 4000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.34%, operating margin of 2.55%, and the pretax margin is 2.33%.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Aerospace & Defense Industry. The insider ownership of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc is 2.55%, while institutional ownership is 88.68%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 01 ’25, was worth 117,093. In this transaction President, KTT Division of this company sold 4,000 shares at a rate of $29.27, taking the stock ownership to the 57,524 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 01 ’25, when Company’s EVP & CFO sold 6,000 for $29.28, making the entire transaction worth $175,660. This insider now owns 331,271 shares in total.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 2.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 18.60% during the next five years compared to -1.16% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s (KTOS) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 2.39. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.74.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.11, a number that is poised to hit 0.09 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.70 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 3.04 million, its volume of 2.25 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.89%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.61.
During the past 100 days, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s (KTOS) raw stochastic average was set at 33.33%, which indicates a significant increase from 5.18% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 62.58% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 54.43% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.99, while its 200-day Moving Average is $25.62. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $29.24 in the near term. At $30.65, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $31.52. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $26.96, it is likely to go to the next support level at $26.09. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $24.68.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 4.25 billion has total of 152,843K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 1,136 M in contrast with the sum of 16,300 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 283,100 K and last quarter income was 3,900 K.
