Growth Metrics

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has reported Operating Margin over the past 16 years, most recently at 1.27% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Operating Margin at 1.27% for Q4 2025, down 233.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 1.65% (down 91.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 1.9%, down 65.0%.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 1.27% at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, down from 2.04% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for KTOS hit a ceiling of 5.23% in Q3 2021 and a floor of 1.57% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 2.11% (2025), compared with a mean of 1.89%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: tumbled -681bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 602bps in 2023.
  • Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' Operating Margin stood at 4.35% in 2021, then plummeted by -65bps to 1.52% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 180bps to 4.27% in 2023, then plummeted by -75bps to 1.06% in 2024, then crashed by -220bps to 1.27% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 1.27% (Q4 2025), 2.04% (Q3 2025), and 1.05% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.