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, Q3 2024
Institutional positions in Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. as of Sep 30, 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
- 330
- +9 vs. Q2 2024
- Shares held
- 128.9M
- +13.4M (+11.6%) vs. Q2 2024
- Total value
- $3.01B
- +$700.4M (+30.3%) vs. Q2 2024
- New holders
- 50
- 122 more added
- Sold out
- 41
- 95 more reduced
3 institutions that held it in Q2 2024 haven't filed for Q3 2024 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q2 2024: 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, Q3 2024
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.; share changes are against Q2 2024.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group Inc | 14,018,292 | $326.6M | 0.01% | +128,829+0.9% | Added |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 13,033,822 | $303.7M | 0.01% | +13,033,822 | New |
| State Street Corp | 5,820,354 | $135.6M | 0.01% | −888,970−13.2% | Reduced |
| Bamco Inc | 4,374,077 | $101.9M | 0.27% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 4,351,482 | $101.4M | 0.02% | +160,843+3.8% | Added |
| Stephens Investment Management Group LLC | 4,284,308 | $99.8M | 1.36% | −68,452−1.6% | Reduced |
| FMR LLC | 4,032,888 | $94.0M | 0.01% | +233,051+6.1% | Added |
| ARK Investment Management LLCSuperinvestorARK Invest | 3,975,028 | $92.6M | 0.85% | −685,780−14.7% | Reduced |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 3,556,544 | $82.9M | 0.01% | +29,278+0.8% | Added |
| Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC | 3,219,374 | $75.0M | 2.42% | −1,221,873−27.5% | Reduced |
| Hood River Capital Management LLC | 3,112,972 | $72.5M | 1.17% | +416,332+15.4% | Added |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 2,798,859 | $71.0M | 0.02% | +304,088+12.2% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 2,926,864 | $68.2M | 0.02% | +1,462,470+99.9% | Added |
| Westwood Holdings Group Inc. | 2,747,030 | $64.0M | 0.27% | +215,554+8.5% | Added |
| American Capital Management Inc | 2,694,948 | $62.8M | 2.05% | +305,925+12.8% | Added |
| Loomis Sayles & Co L P | 2,562,035 | $59.7M | 0.08% | −59,040−2.3% | Reduced |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. | 2,362,467 | $55.0M | 0.04% | −244,405−9.4% | Reduced |
| Nikko Asset Management Americas, Inc. | 2,356,150 | $54.9M | 0.62% | −236,925−9.1% | Reduced |
| Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc. | 1,906,992 | $44.4M | 0.17% | +279,418+17.2% | Added |
| Portolan Capital Management, LLC | 1,776,740 | $41.4M | 3.00% | +146,319+9.0% | Added |
| Rovida Advisors Inc. | 1,773,655 | $41.3M | 13.00% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Northern Trust Corp | 1,763,116 | $41.1M | 0.01% | +87,894+5.2% | Added |
| Emerald Advisers, LLC | 1,741,251 | $40.6M | 1.57% | −23,039−1.3% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 1,668,045 | $38.9M | 0.01% | −48,243−2.8% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 1,498,849 | $34.9M | 0.01% | +35,421+2.4% | Added |
| Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | 1,494,379 | $34.8M | 0.01% | −36,525−2.4% | Reduced |
| Emerald Mutual Fund Advisers Trust | 1,387,908 | $32.3M | 1.68% | −43,376−3.0% | Reduced |
| ARS Investment Partners, LLC | 1,260,830 | $29.4M | 2.63% | +18,363+1.5% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 1,223,023 | $28.5M | 0.01% | −215,998−15.0% | Reduced |
| Invesco Ltd. | 1,182,818 | $27.6M | 0.01% | +64,480+5.8% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,150,984 | $26.8M | 0.00% | −233,790−16.9% | Reduced |
| Fred Alger Management, LLC | 1,068,166 | $24.9M | 0.12% | −51,080−4.6% | Reduced |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC | 1,017,705 | $23.7M | 1.02% | −84,666−7.7% | Reduced |
| Frontier Capital Management Co LLC | 981,190 | $22.9M | 0.22% | +128,351+15.0% | Added |
| Van Eck Associates Corp | 889,562 | $21.4M | 0.03% | +145,462+19.5% | Added |
| SEI Investments Co | 781,353 | $18.2M | 0.02% | +289,962+59.0% | Added |
| Managed Asset Portfolios, LLC | 754,761 | $17.6M | 2.48% | +16,696+2.3% | Added |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | 727,861 | $17.0M | 0.15% | +6,318+0.9% | Added |
| Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC | 665,285 | $15.5M | 0.05% | +86,567+15.0% | Added |
| Royce & Associates LP | 626,090 | $14.6M | 0.13% | +11,380+1.9% | Added |
| Paradigm Capital Management Inc | 563,500 | $13.1M | 0.58% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| S Squared Technology, LLC | 544,475 | $12.7M | 5.41% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC | 517,463 | $12.1M | 0.08% | −3,388−0.7% | Reduced |
| Marshall Wace, LLP | 502,359 | $11.7M | 0.02% | +220,306+78.1% | Added |
| Scout Investments, Inc. | 462,725 | $11.6M | 0.31% | −74,901−13.9% | Reduced |
| Raymond James & Associates | 477,524 | $11.1M | 0.01% | +63,473+15.3% | Added |
| Norges Bank | 438,903 | $10.2M | 0.00% | −245,784−35.9% | Reduced |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd | 427,289 | $9.96M | 0.02% | +120,346+39.2% | Added |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC | 418,763 | $9.76M | 0.02% | +36,100+9.4% | Added |
| Essex Investment Management Co LLC | 402,531 | $9.38M | 1.63% | −5,087−1.2% | Reduced |
| Bank of America Corp | 388,827 | $9.06M | 0.00% | +25,675+7.1% | Added |
| Mercer Global Advisors Inc | 363,893 | $9.03M | 0.02% | −21,077−5.5% | Reduced |
| Mirae Asset Global ETFs Holdings Ltd. | 371,051 | $8.65M | 0.02% | +143,486+63.1% | Added |
| Garnet Equity Capital Holdings, Inc. | 338,500 | $7.89M | 5.12% | −31,500−8.5% | Reduced |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 318,551 | $7.42M | 0.01% | +61,076+23.7% | Added |
| Peregrine Capital Management LLC | 314,513 | $7.33M | 0.22% | −34,119−9.8% | Reduced |
| Citigroup Inc | 299,806 | $6.99M | 0.01% | +107,530+55.9% | Added |
| Swiss National Bank | 293,000 | $6.83M | 0.00% | −2,000−0.7% | Reduced |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 277,261 | $6.46M | 0.01% | +277,196+426,455.4% | Added |
| Barclays PLC | 273,100 | $6.36M | 0.00% | +192,667+239.5% | Added |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 271,051 | $6.32M | 0.00% | +20,311+8.1% | Added |
| Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. | 270,821 | $6.31M | 0.02% | +270,821 | New |
| Stifel Financial Corp | 251,932 | $5.87M | 0.01% | −20,565−7.5% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 249,781 | $5.82M | 0.00% | +3,770+1.5% | Added |
| Advisors Capital Management, LLC | 248,409 | $5.79M | 0.09% | +3,945+1.6% | Added |
| UBS Group AG | 235,520 | $5.49M | 0.00% | +56,486+31.6% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 224,142 | $5.22M | 0.00% | −5,917−2.6% | Reduced |
| Susquehanna International Group, LLP | 221,699 | $5.17M | 0.01% | −4,111−1.8% | Reduced |
| Lisanti Capital Growth, LLC | 221,085 | $5.15M | 1.30% | +168,205+318.1% | Added |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 212,730 | $4.96M | 0.00% | +28,044+15.2% | Added |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 205,700 | $4.79M | 0.00% | +63,800+45.0% | Added |
| Archon Capital Management LLC | 204,442 | $4.76M | 8.93% | −99,000−32.6% | Reduced |
| Firsthand Capital Management, Inc. | 200,000 | $4.66M | 9.19% | +195,000+3,900.0% | Added |
| Register Financial Advisors LLC | 189,204 | $4.41M | 2.26% | +600+0.3% | Added |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 185,723 | $4.33M | 0.00% | +3,648+2.0% | Added |
| State of Wisconsin Investment Board | 183,832 | $4.28M | 0.01% | +4,117+2.3% | Added |
| Jane Street Group, LLC | 181,594 | $4.23M | 0.01% | −90,811−33.3% | Reduced |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | 176,293 | $4.11M | 0.00% | −1,300−0.7% | Reduced |
| Canal Insurance CO | 175,000 | $4.08M | 0.96% | −25,000−12.5% | Reduced |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 169,484 | $3.95M | 0.00% | +32,873+24.1% | Added |
| Hodges Capital Management Inc. | 167,860 | $3.91M | 0.25% | −223,162−57.1% | Reduced |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | 157,606 | $3.67M | 0.20% | −1,751−1.1% | Reduced |
| D L Carlson Investment Group Inc | 155,710 | $3.63M | 0.66% | +155,710 | New |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 151,226 | $3.52M | 0.00% | −21,990−12.7% | Reduced |
| Ghisallo Capital Management LLC | 150,000 | $3.50M | 0.17% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 144,604 | $3.37M | 0.00% | −15,800−9.9% | Reduced |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 141,831 | $3.30M | 0.00% | −4,311−2.9% | Reduced |
| Bleakley Financial Group, LLC | 138,686 | $3.23M | 0.10% | +4,804+3.6% | Added |
| Millennium Management LLC | 132,056 | $3.08M | 0.00% | +116,991+776.6% | Added |
| Fogel Capital Management, Inc. | 124,085 | $2.89M | 1.49% | −2,200−1.7% | Reduced |
| EFG Asset Management (North America) Corp. | 118,983 | $2.77M | 0.46% | +44,684+60.1% | Added |
| Comerica Bank | 118,267 | $2.76M | 0.01% | +13,732+13.1% | Added |
| Legato Capital Management LLC | 115,280 | $2.69M | 0.33% | +24,283+26.7% | Added |
| HRT Financial LP | 110,509 | $2.57M | 0.01% | +110,509 | New |
| Profit Investment Management, LLC | 109,751 | $2.56M | 2.01% | −60,350−35.5% | Reduced |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 106,719 | $2.49M | 0.00% | +103,278+3,001.4% | Added |
| Daiwa Securities Group Inc. | 105,087 | $2.45M | 0.01% | −5,443−4.9% | Reduced |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 102,760 | $2.39M | 0.00% | −42,827−29.4% | Reduced |
| LPL Financial LLC | 101,897 | $2.37M | 0.00% | +30,510+42.7% | Added |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 101,660 | $2.37M | 0.00% | −6,338−5.9% | Reduced |