KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC. (KTOS)
NASDAQ · Transport Equipment · Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts
- Price
- $45.62
- Day
- -2.98%
- Market cap
- $8.56B
- P/E
- 277.1
Close 2026-09-25.
The company
Overview Kratos is a technology, hardware, 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 relevant 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 the 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 our probability of win 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 probability of win is greater or required investment is beyond Kratos comfort level.
From Item 1: Overview.
By product & service
- Product — 65%
- Service — 35%
Institutional holders
Largest positions reported on Form 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, by value.
- BlackRock, Inc. — $642.12M
- STATE STREET CORP — $451.94M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $421.3M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC — $398.23M
- BlackRock, Inc. — $306.77M
- FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP — $299.96M
- ARK Investment Management LLC — $232.97M
- Invesco Ltd. — $194.47M
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales filed on Form 4, newest first. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are left out.
- Lund Deanna H (EVP & CFO) sold 4,100 shares at $48.56 on 2026-09-21
- Lund Deanna H (EVP & CFO) sold 2,900 shares at $49.10 on 2026-09-21
- Mendoza Marie (SVP & General Counsel) sold 1,000 shares at $48.50 on 2026-09-15
- Carrai Phillip D (President, STC Division) sold 2,700 shares at $47.24 on 2026-09-15
- Carrai Phillip D (President, STC Division) sold 3,380 shares at $48.17 on 2026-09-15
- Carrai Phillip D (President, STC Division) sold 420 shares at $48.89 on 2026-09-15
Recent filings
- 4 — 2026-09-23
- 144 — 2026-09-21
- 4 — 2026-09-17
- 4 — 2026-09-17
- 4 — 2026-08-26
- 144 — 2026-08-24
- 4 — 2026-08-20
- 4 — 2026-08-19
- 4 — 2026-08-19
- 144 — 2026-08-17