Karman Holdings (KRMN)
Industrials · Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing · NYSE
Karman Holdings is a specialized manufacturer and engineering partner for critical hardware and components in the space and defense sectors.
What Karman Holdings does
Karman Holdings, operating through its subsidiaries as Karman Space and Defense, is a provider of integrated manufacturing and engineering solutions for the space, defense, and aerospace industries. The company specializes in the development and production of critical components and structures for space launch vehicles, missiles, and other high-performance defense platforms.
Themes: space infrastructure, defense technology, missile and rocket hardware, aerospace manufacturing, advanced composites
Fundamentals
- Price$53.40 as of 2026-08-21 close
- Market cap$7.1B as of 2026-08-21
- 1-year return+2.2% 2025-08-21 close $52.23 → 2026-08-21 close $53.40
- P/E267.65 as of 2026-08-24
- Net margin+5.7% as of 2026-08-24
- Gross margin+41.0% as of 2026-08-24
- ROE+7.9% as of 2026-08-24
- Debt / equity2.11 as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue growth (YoY)+17.3% as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+27.7% SEC XBRL
- Beta2.35 as of 2026-08-24
- Last reported earnings2026-08-06 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How KRMN compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiotop 10% 357 covered Industrials peers, as of 2026-08-24
- net profit marginmiddle range 457 covered Industrials peers, as of 2026-08-24
- operating margintop 25% 457 covered Industrials peers, as of 2026-08-24
- gross marginmiddle range 455 covered Industrials peers, as of 2026-08-24
- return on equitymiddle range 460 covered Industrials peers, as of 2026-08-24
- 3-year revenue CAGRtop 10% 426 covered Industrials peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)bottom 25% 414 covered Industrials peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Industrials companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Top 10 scores & list membership
KRMN is not currently in any published Top 10 list. Its scores are below.
Long-term score
Not scored for the long-term list: no shareholder return data.
Short-term score
40.0 #1404 of 1,704 scored · #218 of 283 in Industrials
Setup 65th: no fresh 20-day breakout up or down; momentum 44th: near the bottom of its 14-day range (oversold); weakest is volume and participation 17th: trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average.
Scores as of 21 Aug 2026. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 2.
How Karman Holdings looks technically
Karman Holdings (KRMN) is trading 28.1% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 51 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 16, below the 25 that marks a real trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 46, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped negative). It made a new 20-day high about 10 trading days ago. It is 54.9% below its highest point of the past year.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 28.1% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -28.1% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $51.48 | $51.48 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $74.26 | $74.26 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing low 31 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 31 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed below its 200-day average about 51 trading days ago — a "death cross", a bearish long-term signal | 51 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 16, below the 25 that marks a real trend) | 15.9 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 46, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 45.9 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading near the bottom of its 14-day range ($51.13 to $63.73) — its "stochastic" reading is 18 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been slipping within that range over the last few sessions. | 18.0 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped negative) | 1 session |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $118.38 | $118.38 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 54.9% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -54.9% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 22.3% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +22.3% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 54.9% below its highest point of the past year | 54.9% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day high about 10 trading days ago | 10 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 42 trading days ago | 42 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $118.38 (set on 2026-01-29) | $118.38 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($44.84 to $115.29), and it has recovered only a small part of its fall from last year’s high — 12% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $88.38 to $90.63. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 12.2% |
| From the all-time high | it is 54.9% below its all-time high | -54.9% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 2.6% above a support level at $51.99 — a price it turned at four times since 2025-06-30, most recently on 2025-09-02. Since 2025-02-13 it has 5 such levels below the current price and 4 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | -2.6% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $25.02 (set on 2025-04-07) | $25.02 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 113.4% above its all-time low | +113.4% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are about average versus its own recent 6-month history | 50th percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $3.56 between its high and its low — about 6.7% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $3.56 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $44.73 and $66.24 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $44.73 – $55.48 – $66.24 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 6.7% in a typical session — more volatile than most companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 6.7% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 5.9 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (28.1% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 5.9 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 0.53× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts have cut their average price target by 3.7% since the prior reading | -3.6% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading | unchanged |
Candlestick patterns
1
| Since a doji | 7 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 7 sessions ago |
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Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-21 0.4% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and traded back through that level before the close | +0.4% |
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| Open gap | it gapped 2.9% below the previous close 3 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 61.78 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | -2.9% |
| Gap filled | a 3.5% gap up opened on 2026-07-31 has been "filled" 15 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it closed again during the very session that opened it | 15 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it has closed lower 5 sessions in a row, a -13.88% move over the run — an unbroken run of down days, which describes what has already happened and says nothing about the next session | 5 sessions down |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock beat the market by 12.1 percentage points (the stock gained 14.4% while the market gained 2.3%) | +12.1% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 21.3 percentage points (the stock lost 18.2% while the market gained 3.1%) | -21.3% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 45.6 percentage points (the stock lost 34.6% while the market gained 11.1%) | -45.6% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 18.2 percentage points (the stock gained 2.2% while the market gained 20.5%) | -18.2% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 1 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it is currently in a bullish state: near the bottom of its 14-day range (oversold) — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 1 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 4 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a "death cross" — its 50-day average is below its 200-day, trading below its 200-day average, MACD momentum is negative, lagging the market over 6 months — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 4 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading inside the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-16 and projected forward over today's price, the zone traders read as unresolved — neither side has established a trend, and the band is where that gets settled. The band itself is thick, spanning 31.4% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that has held for a while and takes effort to cross. | 0.0% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 25% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $71.10 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 150 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -24.9% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 10% below the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-06 (its 8-K), so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $59.19 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 12 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -9.8% |
Price levels it has turned at before
KRMN last closed at $53.40 on 2026-08-21. Since 2025-02-13 it has turned at 5 prices below its last close and 4 above; the 3 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $51.99 | Support | 2.6% below the last close | turned there four times · 2025-06-30 to 2025-09-02 |
| $54.91 | Resistance | 2.8% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-11-21 to 2026-06-17 |
| $48.20 | Support | 9.7% below the last close | turned there twice · 2025-07-23 to 2025-08-20 |
| $45.65 | Support | 14.5% below the last close | turned there three times · 2025-05-15 to 2026-06-11 |
| $72.64 | Resistance | 36.0% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-10-17 to 2026-02-17 |
| $80.66 | Resistance | 51.0% above the last close | turned there twice · 2025-10-14 to 2025-12-23 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-21.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · MACD just crossed bearish (12/26/9) · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · Analyst price target recently CUT · lagging the market | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-21. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingBuy (1.64 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 10 analysts
- Mean price target$87.10 range $37.00 – $135.00; median $85.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-22. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for KRMN
- Consensus EPS estimate$0.1501 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-22
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["High reliance on government and prime defense contracts","Significant debt obligations from acquisitions and financing activities","Integration risks associated with the recent acquisition of Seemann Composites and Materials Sciences"]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of KRMN's 10-Q filed 2026-05-14 against the prior one filed 2025-11-07.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Reworded:
- Item 2 page number changed from 25 to 23 (newer filing 2026-05-14)
- Item 3 page number changed from 38 to 32 (newer filing 2026-05-14)
- Item 3 title punctuation: period removed after 'Market Risk' in newer filing (2026-05-14)
- Item 4 page number changed from 39 to 32 (newer filing 2026-05-14)
- Item 1 (Legal Proceedings) page number changed from 41 to 34 (newer filing 2026-05-14)
- Item 2 title punctuation: period removed after 'Operations' in newer filing (2026-05-14)
- Notes:
- These appear to be table of contents entries with page numbers; the substantive MD&A text itself was not provided for comparison
- Page number changes may reflect different document lengths or formatting between the two periods
Risk Factors
- Added:
- Newer filing shows Balance Sheet dated March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 (older filing shows September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024)
- Newer filing shows three-month period ended March 31, 2026 in Income Statement (older filing shows three-month period ended September 30, 2025)
- Newer filing Cash Flows statement covers three months ended March 31, 2026 (older filing covers nine months ended September 30, 2025)
- Newer filing shows issuance of common stock in acquisition of Seemann Composites and Materials Sciences (135 shares) in Equity Statement
- Newer filing shows proceeds from notes payable of $265,000 in Cash Flows
- Newer filing shows payments of debt issuance costs of $4,870 in financing activities
- Newer filing shows non-cash acquisition of finance lease right-of-use assets of $17,253
- Newer filing shows non-cash acquisition of operating lease right-of-use assets of $5,129
- Newer filing shows common stock issued in acquisition of business of $15,205
- Removed:
- Older filing shows acquisition of Industrial Solid Propulsion (147 shares) in Equity Statement (not present in newer filing period)
- Older filing shows revolving line of credit of $30,000 and $25,000 in long-term liabilities (newer filing does not show this line item)
- Older filing shows nine-month comparative income statement data (newer filing shows only three-month data)
- Older filing shows multiple equity statement periods through September 30, 2025 (newer filing shows only through March 31, 2026)
- Older filing Cash Flows include repayments of revolving line of credit of $25,000 (newer filing does not show this)
- Reworded:
- Balance Sheet line item changed from 'Short term operating lease liabilities' (older) to 'Current portion of operating lease liabilities' (newer)
- Balance Sheet line item changed from 'Short term finance lease liabilities' (older) to 'Current portion of finance lease liabilities' (newer)
- Balance Sheet line item changed from 'Short term notes payable' (older) to 'Short term notes payable, net of debt issuance costs' (newer)
- Income Statement line item ordering: 'Interest expense, net' appears before 'Other income' in newer filing versus different presentation in older filing
- Equity Statement header changed from 'Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)' in older filing to 'Retained Earnings' in newer filing for the Karman Holdings Inc. statement
- Notes:
- The two filings cover different periods (Q1 2026 vs Q3 2025), which explains many numerical differences
- Older filing includes comparative full-year and nine-month periods; newer filing shows only quarterly data
- Some line item descriptions were reformatted or slightly renamed but represent similar accounting categories
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
No open-market insider purchases or sales are on record for KRMN — recent Form 4 activity was compensation-related (awards, option exercises, or tax withholding), not open-market buying or selling.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsOnly open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding KRMN as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 16,706,132
- Reported value $1,337,325,910
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 1 new, 3 increased, 1 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
KRMN had 14,506,658 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
KRMN had 10.9% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 3.14 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 14,506,658
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 10.9%
- Prior settlement (shares) 11,176,889
- Reported change 29.79%
- Days to cover (reported) 3.14
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Northrop Grumman (NOC)
- Lockheed Martin (LMT)
- Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris) (LHX)
- Moog (MOG.A)
- Ducommun (DCO)
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Frequently asked questions
What does Karman Holdings (KRMN) do?
Karman Holdings, operating through its subsidiaries as Karman Space and Defense, is a provider of integrated manufacturing and engineering solutions for the space, defense, and aerospace industries. The company specializes in the development and production of critical components and structures for space launch vehicles, missiles, and other high-performance defense platforms.
What sector is Karman Holdings (KRMN) in?
Karman Holdings (KRMN) is classified in the Industrials sector. Its industry is Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing. It trades on NYSE.
Who are Karman Holdings's (KRMN) competitors?
Notable peers of Karman Holdings (KRMN) include Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris), Moog and Ducommun. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is Karman Holdings (KRMN) overbought or oversold right now?
Karman Holdings (KRMN) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 46, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-21). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on KRMN come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-24; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-24. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-21.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.