Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) on Friday, soared 0.90% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $33.29. Within the past 52 weeks, KTOS’s price has moved between $17.05 and $35.66.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company grew by 9.69% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 2.76%. With a float of $149.41 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $151.09 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 4000 employees. 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) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Aerospace & Defense industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc is 2.53%, while institutional ownership is 90.02%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 15 ’25, was worth 197,956. In this transaction President, STC Division of this company sold 6,000 shares at a rate of $32.99, taking the stock ownership to the 288,048 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 15 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 6,000 for $32.99, making the entire transaction worth $197,956.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.11 per share during the current fiscal year.
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
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 2.39 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 4.53.
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)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) saw its 5-day average volume 1.84 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.89 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 67.34%. 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 82.40%, which indicates a significant decrease from 89.26% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 45.76% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 52.38% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.72, while its 200-day Moving Average is $26.46. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $33.94 in the near term. At $34.29, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $34.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $32.93, it is likely to go to the next support level at $32.28. The third support level lies at $31.93 if the price breaches the second support level.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 5.15 billion based on 153,286K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,136 M and income totals 16,300 K. The company made 283,100 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 3,900 K in sales during its previous quarter.
