Kratos Protection & Safety Options (NASDAQ: KTOS) inventory gained 9.7% by way of 11:45 a.m. ET, Monday after JonesResearch analyst Josh Sullivan initiated protection of the protection inventory with a purchase score and a $150 worth goal.
If Sullivan is correct, Kratos inventory may practically double this 12 months.
There’s not a lot element obtainable on the brand new score, aside from the truth that it occurred. Neither TheFly.com nor StreetInsider.com, my two go-to sources for scores information, know something greater than the score and the worth goal.
What we do find out about Kratos comes primarily from the corporate’s Nov. 4 earnings report on fiscal Q3 2025 outcomes. In that report, Kratos stated gross sales grew 26% 12 months over 12 months, with 36% development in gross sales of “unmanned programs” — i.e., drones. Kratos additionally reported a quarterly book-to-bill ratio of 1.2, foreshadowing even stronger gross sales development to return, and raised its steering for fiscal 2026 natural income development to fifteen% to twenty%, accelerating to 18% to 23% in fiscal 2027.
The corporate was worthwhile in Q3, incomes $0.05 per share, and has earned $0.10 per share to this point this 12 months, however Kratos’s free money movement is unfavourable — and administration expects it to stay unfavourable by way of the top of this 12 months.
Is that adequate to drive Kratos inventory from $79 (Friday) to $150 (a 12 months from now)? I am unsure it’s. 15%, 18%, 20%, or 23% would all be slower development charges than what Kratos produced in Q3. And if the corporate’s solely incomes, say, $0.20 a 12 months, that is a P/E ratio of greater than 400x on the inventory’s present worth.
JonesResearch might imagine 400 occasions earnings is an affordable worth for a development inventory with slowing development? I do not.
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