Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. shares have been in strong demand lately. The technical chart pattern looks positive which may give rise to new gains.
Summary
● On the basis of various fundamental qualitative criteria, the company appears to be particularly poorly ranked from a medium and long-term investment perspective.
● From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
● The company's Refinitiv ESG score, based on a relative ranking of the company within its sector, comes out particularly poor.
Strengths
● The company's earnings per share (EPS) are expected to grow significantly over the next few years according to the consensus of analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
Weaknesses
● As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
● The company does not generate enough profits, which is an alarming weak point.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 339.64 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
● The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
● For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
● The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. is a technology, products, system and software company addressing the defense, national security, and commercial markets. It operates through two segments: The Kratos Government Solutions (KGS) and Unmanned Systems (US). The KGS segment includes its microwave electronic products, space, satellite and cyber, training solutions, Command, Control, Communication, Computing, Combat, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR)/modular systems, turbine technologies, and defense and rocket support services operating segments. The US segment consists of its unmanned aerial, unmanned ground, unmanned seaborne and related command, control and communications system businesses. The KGS and US segments provide products, solutions and services for mission critical National Security programs. It serves customers, such as U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Space Command, and others.