Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS)

• Market cap: $3.91B
• 1 day: 1.05%
• 5 days: -6.91%
• 1 month: 2.58%
• 3 months: 12.92%
• 6 months: 28.32%
• Year to date: 30.92%
• 1 year: 29.29%
• 5 years: 42.61%
• 10 years: 402.33%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts

About: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc develops and fields transformative, affordable technology, platforms, and systems. The company has two segments; The Kratos Government Solutions (KGS) segment is comprised of an aggregation of KGS operating segments, including its microwave electronic products, space, training, and cybersecurity, C5ISR/modular systems, turbine technologies, and defense and rocket support services operating segments and The Unmanned Systems segment consists of unmanned aerial, unmanned ground, unmanned seaborne and related command, control, and communications system businesses. The company derives a majority of its revenue from the Kratos Government Solutions segment.

Employees: 3,900

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

219% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $15.9M | Put options by funds: $4.98M

28% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 119 | Existing positions reduced: 93

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $2.61B [Q2] → $3B (+$390M) [Q3]

7% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 49 | Existing positions closed: 46

1% more funds holding

Funds holding: 321 [Q2] → 324 (+3) [Q3]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q2] → 8 (+0) [Q3]

1.83% less ownership

Funds ownership: 86.86% [Q2] → 85.02% (-1.83%) [Q3]

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $26 1% upside
• Avg. target: $30 14% upside
• High target: $35 35% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 60%
• neutral: 2 40%
• negative: 0 0%

Jefferies Sheila Kahyaoglu 65% 1-year accuracy 22 / 34 met price target	16% upside $30	Hold Maintained	13 Dec 2024
JMP Securities Trevor Walsh 83% 1-year accuracy 49 / 59 met price target	16% upside $30	Market Outperform Maintained	11 Nov 2024
B. Riley Securities Mike Crawford 69% 1-year accuracy 9 / 13 met price target	1% upside $26	Neutral Downgraded	30 Oct 2024
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 67% 1-year accuracy 40 / 60 met price target	4% upside $27	Buy Reiterated	26 Sept 2024
Baird Peter Arment 56% 1-year accuracy 15 / 27 met price target	35% upside $35	Outperform Maintained	23 Sept 2024