Kratos's capital-intensive business has weak financial support for the investment it requires. Its 23% gross margin is unimpressive, and operating profitability is extremely thin. x.com 

Kratos looks expensive against its earnings, trading at about 49x versus the usual 24x for aerospace and defense suppliers. At 24x next year's $1.13 EPS, give or take 12%, fair value sits around $23.92-$30.45, so the $54.96 price is 81% above fair. This is a valuation read off reported earnings and estimates only, with no fundamental work. x.com 

Kratos Defense looks overlooked, with an average analyst price target of $102.76, more than 100% above the current price. x.com 

Ondas Holdings' valuation is hard to justify, and its long-term risk/reward looks less favorable than AeroVironment or Kratos. Per @rzayev7895's read of the earnings, growth comes from acquisitions rather than organically, share count rose 200-300%, market cap roughly quadrupled, cash comes from stock sales, and most backlog arrived with acquired companies. Ondas is more than drones, with critical private networks, but that does not change the valuation view. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Kraken Robotics is not yet a buy despite falling almost 60% from its high. It should first report combined results with Covelya that preserve a credible growth and margin path, and the stock should form a base; the defence factor remains deeply out of favor. @DeepSailCapital argues it is near a bottom, expecting CAD 0.20 of 2028 EPS, mid-20s to 30s revenue growth and product ramps with Anduril. x.com  x.com 

Kratos is the most ambitious 10x case because defense spending is shifting toward drones, autonomous aircraft, hypersonics, propulsion and cheaper systems built at scale, areas it has spent years preparing for. It has a roughly $15 billion bid pipeline against under $2 billion of annual revenue. If even a few programs reach large-scale production, the company could look completely different in 10 years. x.com 

Marblegate Capital's growth is too thin to absorb its new dilution. It grows high single digits mostly by pushing price, and now plans to give up about half of that through dilution as stock compensation rises from 1% to 3–4%, an extra $40M in pay just for being public, per @roojoo3. It trades at about 12x 2027 earnings, and no one cares for a reason. x.com 

Riot Platforms has needlessly burned more investor capital than almost any bitcoin miner this cycle. It pursued a failed Bitfarms takeover, paid exorbitant executive compensation and bought $500M of bitcoin at $98k in December 2024 only to sell it between $60k and $70k. Per the quoted post, Riot sold 9,665 BTC in the first half of 2026 at an average price of $75,785. x.com  x.com 

Kratos executes very well, and its stock looks to be at a decent level after a contract worth up to $446.8M. The deal covers ground infrastructure and operations to launch and run Epochs 1 and 2 of the Space Force's medium-Earth-orbit missile warning and tracking satellites, designed to track hypersonic missiles as well as ICBMs. Kratos is broadening its hypersonic and satellite products, mostly as prime contractor and integrator, and is in transition toward becoming a bigger company. x.com  … Show more

Kratos and Kraken Robotics are falling on sector macro, not business decline, so a strong year-end close looks likely. Both hit 52-week lows, down 68% and 64% from this year's highs. Per Bernstein, peace headlines and a stalled US budget put defense at a 12% discount to the S&P, but it expects the 2027 budget to rise over 10%. Raymond James notes tax-loss selling hits YTD losers into mid-October, and they often lead the rebound. Kratos has a record $2.08B backlog; Kraken guides $290-320M. x.com