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KTOS
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc
NASDAQ· Industrials· Aerospace & Defense· CUSIP 50077B207
$38.27-1.21%Price as of Oct 23, 00:50 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Aerospace & Defense, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in San Diego, United States and has 4,300 employees. The company is worth $7.18B and trades at 225.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $1.35B in fiscal 2025, up 18.5% from the year before. Net income was $22M. The share price is 71.4% below its 52-week high of $134.00. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $64.63M. In that quarter, 5 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $259.12K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $7.18B
- P/E
- 225.1x
- Forward P/E
- 33.9x
- P/B
- 2.1x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $0.17
- ROE
- 1.15%
- Profit margin
- 2.03%
- Revenue growth
- +30.50%
- Beta
- 1.11
- 52-week high
- $134.00
- 52-week low
- $37.40
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +105.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,889.67▲ +89.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $75.91 | $26.38 | $20.29 | $10.32 | $19.40 | $27.43 | $18.01 | $14.09 | $10.59 | $7.40 | $4.10 | $5.02 | $7.68 | $5.03 | $5.97 | $13.17 | $10.55 | |
| P/E |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$8.36
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Earnings
$4.13
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$4.78
Median P/E of 28.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
$8.91
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAROStandardAero, Inc. | $21.72 | 22.4x | 2.6x | 0.00% | 12.30% | $7.19B |
| POOLPOOL Corp | $197.21 | 15.8x | 6.1x | 2.64% | 31.25% | $7.17B |
| AWIArmstrong World Industries Inc | $171.39 | 23.4x | 8.2x | 0.79% | 36.62% | $7.24B |
| MSAMSA Safety Inc | $184.44 |
About the company
- 4,300
- San Diego, United States
