With 2.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.08 million shares. During the session, the Aerospace & Defense company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $30.3855 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $28.355. The 52-week range on KTOS shows that it touched its highest point at $29.96 and its lowest point at $16.71 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $29.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KTOS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 7.88%, but this was up by 4.80% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.41% while six-month performance rose 40.04%. The stock gained 56.34% in the past year, while it has gained 8.45% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KTOS yields 0.10 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 11.24% for this year and 24.14% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -15.14%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 151.02 million KTOS shares are outstanding with a float of 147.76 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 3.54 million, which was 234.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Eric M. DeMarco as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Ms. Deanna Hom Lund CPA serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88367 of KTOS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-29, KTOS reported revenue of $275900000.0 and operating income of $6700000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $19100000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.02.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KTOS since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KTOS analysts setting a high price target of 38.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 28.72727. Based on these targets, KTOS could surge 32.82% to reach the target high and fall by -30.09% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 0.41% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.52717 being high and $0.36149 being low. For KTOS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.46692.
