Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
KTOS- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Industry
- Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts
- SEC CIK
- 0001069258
In the last 90 days, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 17 sales; 631 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $7.68B in total; ARK Invest is the only superinvestor holding it.
13F holders, Q1 2024
Institutional positions in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. as of Mar 31, 2024. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works
- Institutional holders
- 311
- +43 vs. Q4 2023
- Shares held
- 129.0M
- +16.0M (+14.1%) vs. Q4 2023
- Total value
- $2.37B
- +$77.8M (+3.4%) vs. Q4 2023
- New holders
- 70
- 113 more added
- Sold out
- 27
- 83 more reduced
3 institutions that held it in Q4 2023 haven't filed for Q1 2024 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q4 2023: new holders, sold out and not filed yet
Holders and value by quarter
Institutions reporting KTOS on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.
| Quarter | Holders | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 631 | $7.68B |
| Q1 2026 | 717 | $11.8B |
| Q4 2025 | 673 | $11.5B |
| Q3 2025 | 629 | $14.0B |
| Q2 2025 | 497 | $7.76B |
| Q1 2025 | 397 | $4.59B |
| Q4 2024 | 350 | $3.48B |
| Q3 2024 | 330 | $3.01B |
| Q2 2024 | 324 | $2.57B |
| Q1 2024 | 311 | $2.37B |
| Q4 2023 | 271 | $2.30B |
| Q3 2023 | 240 | $1.64B |
| Q2 2023 | 241 | $1.55B |
| Q1 2023 | 244 | $1.46B |
| Q4 2022 | 247 | $1.11B |
| Q3 2022 | 247 | $1.08B |
| Q2 2022 | 257 | $1.50B |
| Q1 2022 | 238 | $2.17B |
| Q4 2021 | 242 | $2.06B |
| Q3 2021 | 243 | $2.40B |
| Q2 2021 | 245 | $3.04B |
| Q1 2021 | 248 | $2.94B |
Institutions, Q1 2024
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.; share changes are against Q4 2023.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 13,972,406 | $256.8M | 0.01% | +1,807,580+14.9% | Added |
| BlackRock Inc. | 12,694,095 | $233.3M | 0.01% | +980,409+8.4% | Added |
| State Street Corp | 7,824,651 | $143.8M | 0.01% | +1,173,105+17.6% | Added |
| ARK Investment Management LLCSuperinvestorARK Invest | 5,506,835 | $101.2M | 0.70% | −243,287−4.2% | Reduced |
| Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC | 4,679,694 | $86.0M | 3.49% | +1,488,842+46.7% | Added |
| Bamco Inc | 4,374,077 | $80.4M | 0.21% | +511,538+13.2% | Added |
| Stephens Investment Management Group LLC | 4,267,713 | $78.4M | 1.04% | +119,433+2.9% | Added |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 4,053,943 | $74.5M | 0.02% | +63,023+1.6% | Added |
| FMR LLC | 3,867,328 | $71.1M | 0.00% | +359,085+10.2% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 3,288,691 | $60.5M | 0.01% | +437,268+15.3% | Added |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 3,111,031 | $57.2M | 0.04% | +1,825+0.1% | Added |
| Nikko Asset Management Americas, Inc. | 3,107,414 | $57.1M | 0.57% | +460.0% | Added |
| Loomis Sayles & Co L P | 2,725,300 | $50.1M | 0.07% | −86,819−3.1% | Reduced |
| Hood River Capital Management LLC | 2,556,787 | $47.0M | 1.05% | +1,331,499+108.7% | Added |
| Westwood Holdings Group Inc. | 2,512,372 | $46.2M | 0.36% | +2,512,372 | New |
| American Capital Management Inc | 2,281,299 | $41.9M | 1.34% | +1,087,227+91.1% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 2,028,589 | $37.3M | 0.01% | −163,861−7.5% | Reduced |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 1,997,121 | $36.7M | 0.01% | −72,461−3.5% | Reduced |
| Emerald Advisers, LLC | 1,830,548 | $33.6M | 1.35% | +23,798+1.3% | Added |
| Rovida Advisors Inc. | 1,773,655 | $32.6M | 11.32% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Northern Trust Corp | 1,724,190 | $31.7M | 0.01% | +115,501+7.2% | Added |
| Portolan Capital Management, LLC | 1,584,691 | $29.1M | 2.22% | +848,674+115.3% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 1,532,701 | $28.2M | 0.01% | +45,070+3.0% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 1,485,862 | $27.3M | 0.01% | +104,416+7.6% | Added |
| Emerald Mutual Fund Advisers Trust | 1,433,058 | $26.3M | 1.37% | −38,724−2.6% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 1,418,388 | $26.1M | 0.01% | +94,863+7.2% | Added |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 1,406,513 | $25.9M | 0.01% | +119,327+9.3% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,250,894 | $23.0M | 0.00% | −214,969−14.7% | Reduced |
| ARS Investment Partners, LLC | 1,244,754 | $22.9M | 2.28% | −118,728−8.7% | Reduced |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC | 1,238,477 | $22.8M | 0.87% | −47,116−3.7% | Reduced |
| Fred Alger Management, LLC | 1,179,833 | $21.7M | 0.11% | −119,017−9.2% | Reduced |
| Invesco Ltd. | 1,028,810 | $18.9M | 0.00% | −118,512−10.3% | Reduced |
| Frontier Capital Management Co LLC | 900,416 | $16.5M | 0.15% | −16,118−1.8% | Reduced |
| Managed Asset Portfolios, LLC | 850,310 | $15.6M | 2.27% | −135,129−13.7% | Reduced |
| Norges Bank | 660,811 | $12.1M | 0.00% | +226,765+52.2% | Added |
| Royce & Associates LP | 610,917 | $11.2M | 0.10% | +6,688+1.1% | Added |
| Element Capital Management LLC | 609,246 | $11.2M | 7.40% | +609,246 | New |
| Scout Investments, Inc. | 589,149 | $10.8M | 0.27% | −37,417−6.0% | Reduced |
| Paradigm Capital Management Inc | 563,500 | $10.4M | 0.50% | +50,000+9.7% | Added |
| S Squared Technology, LLC | 519,475 | $9.55M | 4.38% | +53,014+11.4% | Added |
| Alyeska Investment Group, L.P. | 518,606 | $9.53M | 0.06% | +518,606 | New |
| Mercer Global Advisors Inc | 477,061 | $8.77M | 0.02% | +88,200+22.7% | Added |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | 476,121 | $8.75M | 0.09% | +63,782+15.5% | Added |
| Archon Capital Management LLC | 450,487 | $8.28M | 3.91% | +413,026+1,102.5% | Added |
| Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC | 430,623 | $7.91M | 0.05% | −69,047−13.8% | Reduced |
| Peregrine Capital Management LLC | 382,344 | $7.03M | 0.20% | +30,273+8.6% | Added |
| Balyasny Asset Management LLC | 380,355 | $6.99M | 0.02% | +380,355 | New |
| Hodges Capital Management Inc. | 370,000 | $6.80M | 0.43% | +370,000 | New |
| Van Eck Associates Corp | 368,492 | $6.77M | 0.01% | +283,262+332.4% | Added |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC | 356,163 | $6.55M | 0.01% | +195,290+121.4% | Added |
| Essex Investment Management Co LLC | 356,135 | $6.55M | 1.29% | −15,379−4.1% | Reduced |
| Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC | 352,683 | $6.48M | 0.02% | −217,266−38.1% | Reduced |
| Bank of America Corp | 329,519 | $6.06M | 0.00% | −27,480−7.7% | Reduced |
| SEI Investments Co | 311,594 | $5.73M | 0.01% | +165,356+113.1% | Added |
| Ghisallo Capital Management LLC | 300,000 | $5.51M | 0.63% | +300,000 | New |
| Macquarie Group Ltd | 295,889 | $5.44M | 0.01% | −127,715−30.1% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 287,600 | $5.29M | 0.00% | +33,500+13.2% | Added |
| Raymond James & Associates | 274,512 | $5.05M | 0.00% | +86,407+45.9% | Added |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 274,239 | $5.04M | 0.00% | −182,561−40.0% | Reduced |
| UBS Group AG | 271,017 | $4.98M | 0.00% | +15,738+6.2% | Added |
| Twinbeech Capital LP | 267,638 | $4.92M | 0.10% | +267,638 | New |
| Stifel Financial Corp | 263,740 | $4.85M | 0.01% | +6,307+2.4% | Added |
| American Century Companies Inc | 241,576 | $4.44M | 0.00% | +63,908+36.0% | Added |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd | 239,703 | $4.41M | 0.01% | +239,703 | New |
| Advisors Capital Management, LLC | 238,973 | $4.39M | 0.08% | −4,376−1.8% | Reduced |
| Firsthand Capital Management, Inc. | 235,000 | $4.32M | 7.04% | −75,000−24.2% | Reduced |
| Vienna Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne S.A. Vienna Insurance Group | 230,000 | $4.23M | 1.66% | +80,000+53.3% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 228,967 | $4.21M | 0.00% | +19,566+9.3% | Added |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 228,059 | $4.19M | 0.01% | +25,703+12.7% | Added |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 214,190 | $3.93M | 0.01% | +30,498+16.6% | Added |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 211,459 | $3.89M | 0.00% | +117,106+124.1% | Added |
| Citigroup Inc | 207,847 | $3.82M | 0.00% | +59,418+40.0% | Added |
| Register Financial Advisors LLC | 190,604 | $3.50M | 1.82% | +750+0.4% | Added |
| State of Wisconsin Investment Board | 185,298 | $3.41M | 0.01% | −18,975−9.3% | Reduced |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 181,877 | $3.34M | 0.00% | +3,275+1.8% | Added |
| Garnet Equity Capital Holdings, Inc. | 180,000 | $3.31M | 2.80% | +180,000 | New |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | 178,752 | $3.29M | 0.00% | −2,809−1.5% | Reduced |
| Susquehanna International Group, LLP | 177,400 | $3.26M | 0.00% | +115,938+188.6% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 174,441 | $3.21M | 0.00% | −10,594−5.7% | Reduced |
| Credit Suisse AG | 171,720 | $3.16M | 0.00% | +7,760+4.7% | Added |
| Canal Insurance CO | 164,219 | $3.02M | 0.78% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | 161,255 | $2.96M | 0.17% | −15,462−8.7% | Reduced |
| Barclays PLC | 160,840 | $2.96M | 0.00% | −117,496−42.2% | Reduced |
| Oppenheimer & Co Inc | 155,277 | $2.85M | 0.05% | −54,880−26.1% | Reduced |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 155,158 | $2.85M | 0.00% | −11,621−7.0% | Reduced |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 151,115 | $2.78M | 0.00% | −23,981−13.7% | Reduced |
| State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D | 150,222 | $2.76M | 0.01% | +21,094+16.3% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 146,045 | $2.68M | 0.00% | +28,022+23.7% | Added |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 145,405 | $2.67M | 0.00% | +9,577+7.1% | Added |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 142,326 | $2.62M | 0.00% | +3,100+2.2% | Added |
| Bleakley Financial Group, LLC | 142,005 | $2.61M | 0.08% | +17,197+13.8% | Added |
| Simplicity Wealth,LLC | 142,005 | $2.61M | 0.06% | +142,005 | New |
| Profit Investment Management, LLC | 128,544 | $2.36M | 1.33% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 121,017 | $2.22M | 0.00% | −51,397−29.8% | Reduced |
| Trexquant Investment LP | 116,197 | $2.14M | 0.04% | +116,197 | New |
| Assenagon Asset Management S.A. | 116,026 | $2.13M | 0.01% | +35,790+44.6% | Added |
| Fogel Capital Management, Inc. | 110,830 | $2.05M | 1.21% | +110,830 | New |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 110,299 | $2.03M | 0.00% | −61,801−35.9% | Reduced |
| Raymond James Financial Services Advisors, Inc. | 107,689 | $1.98M | 0.00% | −12,476−10.4% | Reduced |
| Daiwa Securities Group Inc. | 106,042 | $1.95M | 0.01% | −20,727−16.4% | Reduced |