Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [NASDAQ: KTOS] closed the trading session at $43.28 on 2025-07-02.
The stocks have a year to date performance of 116.29 percent and weekly performance of 2.24 percent. The stock has been moved at 63.20 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed 13.77 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed 47.71 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 2.91M shares, KTOS reached to a volume of 4806110 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for KTOS shares is $45.00 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on KTOS stock is a recommendation set at 1.50. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Goldman have made an estimate for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on June 30, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Stifel raised their target price to Buy. The new note on the price target was released on June 24, 2025, representing the official price target for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise from $26 to $35, while B. Riley Securities kept a Buy rating on KTOS stock. On October 30, 2024, analysts increased their price target for KTOS shares from 24 to 26.
The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 4.78, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 1.58.
KTOS stock trade performance evaluation
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 2.24. With this latest performance, KTOS shares gained by 13.77% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 63.20% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 64.06% in the past year of trading.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS] shares currently have an operating margin of 2.80% and a Gross Margin at 24.20%. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 1.68%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 1.00%, with Return on Assets sitting at 1.00%.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for KTOS. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc go to 21.46%.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc [KTOS]: Institutional Ownership
The top three institutional holders of KTOS stocks are: VANGUARD GROUP INC with ownership of 13.89 million shares, which is approximately 9.1498%. BLACKROCK INC., holding 12.88 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$257.7 million in KTOS stocks shares; and BLACKROCK INC., currently with $$134.25 million in KTOS stock with ownership which is approximately 4.4198%.
