Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS)

• Market cap: $3.84B
• 1 day: -2.69%
• 5 days: -10.51%
• 1 month: -28.19%
• 3 months: -3.62%
• 6 months: 20.72%
• Year to date: -4.13%
• 1 year: 25.32%
• 5 years: 24.89%
• 10 years: 328.64%
• 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 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

292% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $41M | Put options by funds: $10.5M

61% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 61 | Existing positions closed: 38

26% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 123 | Existing positions reduced: 98

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3B [Q3] → $3.46B (+$452M) [Q4]

13% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q3] → 9 (+1) [Q4]

4% more funds holding

Funds holding: 325 [Q3] → 337 (+12) [Q4]

1.56% more ownership

Funds ownership: 85.19% [Q3] → 86.75% (+1.56%) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $30 19% upside
• Avg. target: $36 40% upside
• High target: $40 58% upside

4 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 75%
• neutral: 1 25%
• negative: 0 0%

JMP Securities Trevor Walsh 82% 1-year accuracy 47 / 57 met price target	58% upside $40	Market Outperform Maintained	4 Feb 2025
Baird Peter Arment 48% 1-year accuracy 13 / 27 met price target	58% upside $40	Outperform Maintained	14 Jan 2025
Truist Securities Michael Ciarmoli 68% 1-year accuracy 42 / 62 met price target	27% upside $32	Buy Maintained	14 Jan 2025
Jefferies Sheila Kahyaoglu 66% 1-year accuracy 23 / 35 met price target	19% upside $30	Hold Maintained	13 Dec 2024