Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 2.31% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $32.14.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $31.42, falling within a range of $31.15 and $32.28. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.116 whereas the PE ratio is 301.50 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $35.66, and the low was $17.05. On the whole, KTOS has fluctuated by 28.77% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc currently standing at about $4.91 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-25.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.28B, with a low estimate of 285M and a high estimate of 301M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 292.25M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that KTOS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 16.21, with the price of KTOS currently trading nearly 7.89% and 5.22% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 58.44, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.59% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.03%. Furthermore, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS)’s beta value is 1.01, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.43.
A comparison of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. KTOS showed an intraday change of 2.31% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 80.66%%.
Data on historical trading for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.01 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.01 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 151.09 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 2.55% of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 88.55% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 7.03 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.39. According to the data, the short interest in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) stood at 470.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 5.12 million. The stock has risen by 21.83% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the KTOS stock heading into the next quarter.
