Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS)

• Market cap: $9.77B
• 1 day: 1.61%
• 5 days: -1.34%
• 1 month: 24.89%
• 3 months: 71.68%
• 6 months: 72.39%
• Year to date: 119.90%
• 1 year: 159.09%
• 5 years: 217.52%
• 10 years: 958.58%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Aerospace & Defense

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: 4,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

132% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 88 | Existing positions closed: 38

58% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $52.7M | Put options by funds: $33.2M

33% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q4 2024] → 12 (+3) [Q1 2025]

32% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.48B [Q4 2024] → $4.58B (+$1.11B) [Q1 2025]

23% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 139 | Existing positions reduced: 113

13.84% more ownership

Funds ownership: 87.23% [Q4 2024] → 101.07% (+13.84%) [Q1 2025]

13% more funds holding

Funds holding: 347 [Q4 2024] → 392 (+45) [Q1 2025]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $44 24% downside
• Avg. target: $56 4% downside
• High target: $70 21% upside

8 analyst ratings

• positive: 7 88%
• neutral: 1 13%
• negative: 0 0%

JMP Securities Rustam Kanga	21% upside $70	Market Outperform Maintained	22 Jul 2025
Stifel Jonathan Siegmann	21% upside $70	Buy Maintained	21 Jul 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald Colin Canfield	3% upside $60	Overweight Initiated	8 Jul 2025
Benchmark Josh Sullivan	14% downside $50	Buy Maintained	8 Jul 2025
RBC Capital Ken Herbert	14% downside $50	Outperform Maintained	3 Jul 2025