@bytelee_trade That translation is exactly what I am watching. The backlog gives visibility, but fixed price work only helps if execution stays clean and costs do not creep. The cash flow line will tell us before anything else does.
🧵 Stock thesis #40: Kratos just posted the strongest quarter in its history, $471.8M in revenue, up 35.7%, with a record $2.650B backlog. The stock is down roughly 73% from its high. That's $KTOS.
@realACollins Yes, and the calls get ugly fast because the guide was built on those orders landing on time. Demand can stay strong and the quarter can still miss if the parts show up late.
@realACollins In the near term the buyers do, because they need the volume now and there is no spare supply to bargain with. Over time it gets passed through or it slows the ramp, and that timing gap is where it gets messy.
@qualityequities That gap is the whole test. Interest at that run rate is fine if operating income keeps climbing toward it, but if it stalls the leverage starts to set the story instead of the backlog.
The Treasury Secretary moved into military housing after Iranian threats! Scott Bessent is the man running the economic pressure campaign on Tehran, and now he needs military protection to do it. That is how personal this standoff just got.
US TREASURY SECRETARY MOVED TO MILITARY HOUSING AFTER IRANIAN THREATS
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been relocated to temporary military housing following threats from Iran, according to Bloomberg.
Bessent is leading Washington's economic pressure campaign against Tehran, including sweeping sanctions targeting Iranian oil shipments, banks and trade networks.
The nature of the threats remains undisclosed.
The move comes as Trump pursues renewed diplomacy with Iran while maintaining the US naval blockade and economic sanctions.
Kushner and Witkoff face to face with Putin in Moscow on Thursday! After nine months of silence, the Abu Dhabi talks just got a concrete next step. A real security deal reprices European defense and energy fast, so is this finally the one?
Hormuz stays closed until the Leader himself says otherwise! That is Tehran's top brass shutting the door on the talk hopes, with Brent already settling up at $92.76. How much risk premium can the market keep stripping out of oil?
IRAN'S BRIGADIER GENERAL HEYDARI: WE HAVE CLOSED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND WE WILL NOT OPEN IT EXCEPT BY THE ORDER OF THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION - ISNA