KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (KTOS) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Industrials. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (TheilβSen, log-price), then projected 3 months. On this symbol, 5 comparable calls have settled; 80% reached the published sell target. Information only, not financial advice.
Mid-channel, falling on both timeframes
Price is between the two trend lines. Nothing to act on yet.
The next few months are read from the last 9 months, the stretch whose swings the lines actually follow, because the last 12 months alone do not contain enough turns to fit reliably (37% against 50%). The last 12 months stay as context: falling, β50% a year. The target of US$53.58 is below the nearest ceiling (US$60.74), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$38.32 β the floor of the channel being read β after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 9 months read from
- US$38.32 β US$60.74 Falling channel, β72% a year
- Position in that channel
- 41% 0% at the floor, 100% at the ceiling
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -66% from US$130.7216 Jan 2026 β 29 July 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company3 of 13 Aerospace & Defense peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 4%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 70% of 8 comparable falls came back, typically in 150 days measured on its own peer group
The trend broke in January 2026: price fell 66% from 130.72 to 43.85 by July 2026, and has regained 4% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: βStifel Maintains Buy on Kratos Defense & Security, Raises Price Target to $134β. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 66% here have come back to the old high 70% of the time (8 comparable falls), typically in 150 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 137.22 within 1198 days, reached 70% of the time in 8 comparable falls β about 0.16% a day held.
Reported at the time: Stifel Maintains Buy on Kratos Defense & Security, Raises Price Target to $134 β 13 Jan 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy now
US$47.47
last close Β· 18 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$49.61; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$53.58
by 25 Sept 2026
Projected move
12.9%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy β the best price available now.
The lines are drawn where this stock has actually turned: 2 touches on the ceiling, 2 on the floor, each fitted to the slope that catches the most of them. Buying one average daily range below its 50-day mean, on heavier volume than usual and while it is still above its 200-day mean, has come up 791 times; measured against the 6% floor β the least a call has to be worth to be worth making, not what it aims at β 73% cleared it, typically in 34 days, with price going about 5% against the entry along the way (63% in the worst case we have on record). Trades that have not reached the target within 3 months are counted as misses, whatever they are worth at the time. The prices above are this stockβs own β its average, its volatility β but the setup is the same one we apply everywhere: derived on eight unrelated tickers, then confirmed on 87 others it was never fitted to. We deliberately do not tune it to each stock: doing so scores worse on history the tuning never saw β 58% against 71% β because it fits the past rather than the future. On this stock the setup has come up 9 times so far, reaching target 100% of the time β too few to mean much on its own. The sell price comes from where this stock is projected to be, not from a minimum worth taking: the fitted path reaches 9% above the entry within 90 days, and of the sizes that path supports, 8% is the one that has returned the most per day of money tied up here β measured over the 8 times this entry has come up on this chart, reached 100% of the time, typically in 7 days. Smaller sizes got there sooner but paid less for the weeks they used; larger ones need a break above the projected ceiling, which is not the base case. The date published is whichever is later: that typical time, or the day the projected path itself reaches the price. It is a prediction, so it can be revised: if the run tops out before it gets there, the target is cut to what is actually on the table and you are told the same day. An ordinary pullback is not treated as topping out β those go on to make a new high about 8 times in 10, so they are ridden through. What triggers the revision is price closing below its 50-day trend and staying there, after which the odds of recovery fall to roughly 3 in 10.
On this stock's own history these rules produced 5 settled calls, of which 4 reached target (80%), with an average best move of 12%. See the full record.
- Upper line touches
- 2
- Lower line touches
- 2
- Fit confidence
- 50%
- Fitted
- 18 Sept 2026
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. primarily functions as a contractor for the United States Department of Defense. Its business operations are organized into two distinct divisions: Kratos Government Solutions and Unmanned Systems. The Kratos Government Solutions segment delivers a comprehensive suite of products and services, including advanced microwave electronics, solutions for space and satellite communications, specialized training and cybersecurity/warfare capabilities, C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) and modular systems, cutting-edge turbine technologies, and essential defense and rocket support services. Meanwhile, the Unmanned Systems division is dedicated to developing and supplying autonomous platforms, specifically unmanned aerial, ground, and maritime systems. Kratos caters to an extensive client base, which includes various national security organizations, the DoD, intelligence and classified agencies, international government bodies, and both domestic and global commercial enterprises. The company was established in 1994 and its corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- CEO
- Eric DeMarco
- Employees
- 4,300
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings β that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$8.76B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 1.11
- Avg volume
- 4.47M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
- β
- 52-week range
- 43.09-134
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
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Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.