Aerospace and defense company Kratos (NASDAQ: KTOS) will be reporting earnings this Monday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Kratos beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $347.6 million, up 26% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Kratos’s revenue to grow 14.7% year on year, improving from the 3.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Kratos has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Kratos’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Mercury Systems delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 10.4%, and Leidos reported a revenue decline of 3.6%, falling short of estimates by 2.5%. Mercury Systems traded down 22.3% following the results while Leidos was also down 2.7%.
Read our full analysis of Mercury Systems’s results here and Leidos’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the defense contractors segment, with share prices up 6.7% on average over the last month. Kratos is down 12.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $115.70 (compared to the current share price of $96.74).
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