KTOS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Kratos Defense & Security Solutions | NASDAQ:KTOS)

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.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol KTOS.

As of August 21, 2026, KTOS stock price climbed to $57.17 with 2,830,261 million shares trading.

KTOS has a beta of 2.80, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. KTOS has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KTOS has a market cap of $10.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Kratos Defense & Security Solutions reported $459 million in Revenue and $.21 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $48 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.

In the last 3 years, KTOS traded as high as $134.00 and as low as $13.98.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that KTOS belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, AIRR, VTI, VB, XAR.

KTOS has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -11.7% while the SPY ETF gained +21.7%. However, in the short term, KTOS had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +4.6% vs +3.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, KTOS shares have been beat by the market, returning -5.9% compared to an SPY return of -1.0%.

KTOS support price is $53.36 and resistance is $59.01 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that KTOS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.