Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc KTOS Stock Analysis
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$35.10 up $1.71, 5.12% at close Nov 6
Last close · Previous close $33.39
- Market cap
- At the Nov 6 close
- P/E ratio
- 206.47On last 12 months’ EPS
- Diluted EPS
- $0.17Last 12 months
- Dividend yield
- NoneLast 12 months
Price chart
$35.10up $1.71, 5.12%Fri, Nov 6 session
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Price data
Trading
- Previous close$33.39Nov 5
- Volume8.02MNov 6 session
Shares traded on all US exchanges in the last completed session. Live intraday volume covers IEX only, so it is left out.
- Avg. volume4.75MLast 21 sessions
The average daily shares traded over the last 21 trading sessions, about one calendar month.
- 52-week range: $31.57 to $134.00; now $35.10
The lowest and highest trades over the past 52 weeks, adjusted for splits. The marker shows the latest price.
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Performance
Past performance, measured to the Nov 6 close. Total return includes reinvested dividends.Price change only, without dividends. Compared with the S&P 500, using SPY.
KTOS beat the S&P 500 in 2 of 7 periods.
| Period | KTOS and S&P 500 | vs S&P 500 |
|---|---|---|
| Short term | ||
| 1M | KTOS: down 19.7% S&P 500: down 5.6% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 14.1 percentage points Trailed |
| 3M | KTOS: down 38.9% S&P 500: down 4.1% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 34.8 percentage points Trailed |
| YTD | KTOS: down 53.8% S&P 500: up 8.7% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 62.5 percentage points Trailed |
| 1Y | KTOS: down 51.5% S&P 500: up 10.9% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 62.4 percentage points Trailed |
| Long term | ||
| 3Y | KTOS: up 99.9% S&P 500: up 75.0% +26.0% vs +20.5% a year | KTOS beat the S&P 500 by 24.9 percentage points Beat |
| 5Y | KTOS: up 56.9% S&P 500: up 67.8% +9.4% vs +10.9% a year | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 10.9 percentage points Trailed |
| 10Y | KTOS: up 508.3% S&P 500: up 313.1% +19.8% vs +15.2% a year | KTOS beat the S&P 500 by 195.2 percentage points Beat |
$10,000 invested in KTOS 10 years ago (Nov 4, 2016) would be worth about $60,832 at the close on , with dividends reinvested. The same amount in the S&P 500 would be worth about $41,313.
KTOS beat the S&P 500 in 2 of 7 periods.
| Period | KTOS and S&P 500 | vs S&P 500 |
|---|---|---|
| Short term | ||
| 1M | KTOS: down 19.7% S&P 500: down 5.6% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 14.1 percentage points Trailed |
| 3M | KTOS: down 38.9% S&P 500: down 4.3% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 34.6 percentage points Trailed |
| YTD | KTOS: down 53.8% S&P 500: up 7.8% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 61.6 percentage points Trailed |
| 1Y | KTOS: down 51.5% S&P 500: up 9.7% | KTOS trailed the S&P 500 by 61.2 percentage points Trailed |
| Long term | ||
| 3Y | KTOS: up 99.9% S&P 500: up 68.8% +26.0% vs +19.1% a year | KTOS beat the S&P 500 by 31.1 percentage points Beat |
| 5Y | KTOS: up 56.9% S&P 500: up 56.9% +9.4% vs +9.4% a year | KTOS matched the S&P 500 Even |
| 10Y | KTOS: up 508.3% S&P 500: up 252.6% +19.8% vs +13.4% a year | KTOS beat the S&P 500 by 255.7 percentage points Beat |
$10,000 invested in KTOS 10 years ago (Nov 4, 2016) would be worth about $60,832 at the close on , not counting dividends. The same amount in the S&P 500 would be worth about $35,257.
All-time high
$1,579.00
Closing high on . Now 97.8% below that record.
Split-adjusted daily closes since Nov 5, 1999.
Stock splits
1
1-for-10 on . Share counts adjust after each split.
Valuation
Financials
Reported results, not forecasts. From company filings via Tiingo; the latest report is Q2 FY26, the quarter ended Jun 28, 2026. “Last 12 months” means the four quarters from Jun 30, 2025 to Jun 28, 2026, and balance-sheet figures are as of Jun 28, 2026.
Revenue and net income
Last 12 months, with the change from the 12 months before
- Revenue
- $1.52Bup 25.5%
- Net income
- $30.90Mup 113.1%
- Diluted EPS
- $0.17up 70.0%
Data table
| Period | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 FY24 (Sep 29, 2024) | $275.90M | $3.20M | $0.02 |
| Q4 FY24 (Dec 29, 2024) | $283.10M | $3.90M | $0.03 |
| Q1 FY25 (Mar 30, 2025) | $302.60M | $4.50M | $0.03 |
| Q2 FY25 (Jun 29, 2025) | $351.50M | $2.90M | $0.02 |
| Q3 FY25 (Sep 28, 2025) | $347.60M | $8.70M | $0.05 |
| Q4 FY25 (Dec 28, 2025) | $345.10M | $5.90M | $0.03 |
| Q1 FY26 (Mar 29, 2026) | $371.00M | $11.90M | $0.07 |
| Q2 FY26 (Jun 28, 2026) | $458.80M | $4.40M | $0.02 |
| Period | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY21 (Dec 26, 2021) | $811.50M | −$2.00M | −$0.02 |
| FY22 (Dec 25, 2022) | $898.30M | −$36.90M | −$0.29 |
| FY23 (Dec 31, 2023) | $1.04B | −$8.90M | −$0.07 |
| FY24 (Dec 29, 2024) | $1.14B | $16.30M | $0.11 |
| FY25 (Dec 28, 2025) | $1.35B | $22.00M | $0.13 |
Margins
- Gross 23.0%
- Operating 1.2%
- Net 2.0%
The percentages above the chart cover the last 12 months; the lines show each quarter. What margins tell you
Cash flow
- −$128.90MLast 12 months
Cash from operations minus capital spending: the cash left after the business maintains and grows its assets.
FCF = Operating cash flow − Capital spendingFree cash flow - Operating cash flow−$39.60MLast 12 months
- Capital spending$89.30MLast 12 months
- −8.5%Last 12 months
Free cash flow as a share of revenue, both over the last 12 months.
Shareholder returns
- $1.36BLast 12 months
Cash spent repurchasing shares, net of shares issued. Buybacks shrink the share count, so each remaining share owns more of the company.
- Dividends paid$0.00Last 12 months
- Total returned$0.00Last 12 months
Balance sheet
- $1.45BAs of Jun 28, 2026
Cash plus short- and long-term marketable securities on the Jun 28, 2026 balance sheet.
- Total debt$193.60MAs of Jun 28, 2026
- Net cash$1.26BAs of Jun 28, 2026
- 5.54As of Jun 28, 2026
Current assets divided by current liabilities on the Jun 28, 2026 balance sheet. Above 1 means short-term assets cover the bills due within a year.
Current ratio = Current assets ÷ Current liabilitiesCurrent ratio - 0.06As of Jun 28, 2026
Total debt divided by shareholders’ equity on the Jun 28, 2026 balance sheet: a measure of financial leverage.
D/E = Total debt ÷ Shareholders’ equityDebt-to-equity ratio
Financial strength
- 4 of 9Last 12 months
vs the 12 beforeA 0–9 checklist from accounting professor Joseph Piotroski. Each test compares the last 12 months with the 12 months before and scores a point if it passes. 8–9 is strong; 0–2 is weak.
- ✓Net income was positive: passed
- ✗Operating cash flow was positive: not passed
- ✓Return on assets improved: passed
- ✗Operating cash flow exceeded net income: not passed
- ✓Long-term debt fell relative to assets: passed
- ✓Current ratio improved: passed
- ✗Share count didn’t rise: not passed
- ✗Gross margin improved: not passed
- ✗Asset turnover (revenue ÷ assets) improved: not passed
- 1.1%Last 12 months
Over the last 12 months, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’s net income was 1.1% of its shareholders’ equity (averaged over the last four quarter-ends). It describes the past year, not an expected return.
ROE = Net income (last 12 months) ÷ Average equityReturn on equity - 0.9%Last 12 months
Over the last 12 months, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’s net income was 0.9% of its total assets (averaged over the last four quarter-ends): what the business earned on everything it owns.
ROA = Net income (last 12 months) ÷ Average total assets
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. is a technology, products, system and software company addressing the defense, national security, and commercial markets. Kratos makes true internally funded research, development, capital and other investments, to rapidly develop, produce and field solutions that address our customers' mission critical needs and requirements. At Kratos, affordability is a technology, and we seek to utilize proven, leading edge approaches and technology, not unproven bleeding edge approaches or technology, with Kratos' approach designed to reduce cost, schedule and risk, enabling us to be first to market with cost effective solutions. We believe that Kratos is known as an innovative disruptive change agent in the industry, a company that is an expert in designing products and systems up front for successful rapid, large quantity, low-cost future manufacturing which is a value add competitive differentiator for our large traditional prime system integrator partners and also to our government and commercial customers. Kratos intends to pursue program and contract opportunities as the prime or lead contractor when we believe that our probability of win (PWin) is high and any investment required by Kratos is within our capital resource comfort level. We intend to partner and team with a large, traditional system integrator when our assessment of PWin is greater or required investment is beyond Kratos' comfort level. Kratos' primary business areas include virtualized ground systems for satellites and space vehicles including software for command & control (C2) and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C), jet powered unmanned aerial drone systems, advanced vehicles and rocket systems, propulsion systems for drones, missiles, loitering munitions, supersonic systems, space craft and launch systems, C5ISR and microwave electronic products for missile, radar, missile defense, space, satellite, counter UAS, directed energy, communication and other systems, and virtual & augmented reality training systems for the warfighter.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Headquarters
- California, USA
- SEC filings
- EDGAR (opens in a new tab)
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Asset type
- Common stock
- Price history since
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KTOS stock FAQ
What is KTOS stock’s price today?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) traded at $35.10 at the close on , up $1.71 (5.12%) from the previous close of $33.39. Over the past 52 weeks it has traded between $31.57 and $134.00.
If you invested $1,000 in KTOS 10 years ago, how much would you have now?
With dividends reinvested, $1,000 invested in KTOS on would be worth about $6,083 at the close on , a total return of +508.3%. The same $1,000 would be worth $1,569 if invested five years ago, $485 if invested one year ago, and $1,463 if invested 20 years ago. Past performance doesn’t predict future returns.
What is KTOS’s P/E ratio?
KTOS trades at 206.5 times its diluted earnings over the four quarters to ($0.17 per share), at the close. (How the P/E ratio works.)
How much revenue does Kratos Defense & Security Solutions make?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions reported $1.5 billion of revenue over the four quarters to , up 25.5% from the twelve months before. In its latest quarter (Q2 FY26, ended ) revenue was $458.8 million, up 30.5% from a year earlier.
Is Kratos Defense & Security Solutions profitable?
Yes. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions earned $30.9 million of net income over the four quarters to , a net margin of 2.0%, and its operating margin was 1.2% (what margins tell you).
What are KTOS’s earnings per share?
KTOS’s diluted earnings per share were $0.17 over the four quarters to , compared with $0.10 in the twelve months before. The latest quarter (Q2 FY26) brought $0.02 per share, against $0.02 a year earlier (how EPS works).
Does KTOS pay a dividend?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions hasn’t paid a dividend in the last twelve months.
What is KTOS’s 52-week high and low?
Over the past 52 weeks KTOS has traded as low as $31.57 and as high as $134.00. At $35.10 at the close on , it is 73.8% below that high and 11.2% above the low.
What is KTOS’s all-time high?
KTOS’s highest closing price was $1,579.00 on , adjusted for stock splits. At $35.10 at the close on , it is 97.8% below that record.
Has KTOS stock ever split?
Yes, once: 1-for-10 on .
How has KTOS stock performed?
Including dividends and measured to the close on , KTOS has returned −53.8% so far this year and −51.5% over the past year, and +56.9% over five years (+9.4% a year). Over the same periods the S&P 500, measured by SPY, returned +8.7%, +10.9% and +67.8%. Past performance doesn’t predict future returns.
What sector and industry is Kratos Defense & Security Solutions in?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions is in the Industrials sector and the Aerospace & Defense industry, and is headquartered in California, USA.
What exchange does KTOS trade on?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol KTOS. Its price history on this dashboard begins on .
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