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Space Symposium, meet Street opinion
Leidos got a new morale boost from Cantor Fitzgerald, which reiterated an Overweight rating and a $225 price target after the Space Symposium conference. That’s Wall Street-speak for: “we still like the setup here.”
Why you should care
For a stock trading around $156.47, a $225 target is not exactly pocket change. It implies Cantor still sees meaningful upside, which matters when investors are trying to figure out whether Leidos is a sleepy government contractor or a steadier growth story with a little more juice.
But the chorus isn’t perfectly in tune
Jefferies also weighed in, though with a different flavor: it kept a Buy rating but trimmed its price target to $185 from $215, pointing to the Entrust acquisition integration. So the message isn’t “all clear, moon launch,” but rather “the long-term story still works, if management keeps the machinery humming.”
The investor takeaway
This kind of analyst chatter won’t rewrite Leidos’ business overnight, but it can help shape sentiment around a defense name that lives and dies by contract wins, execution, and how smoothly it digests acquisitions. Big picture: the Street still likes the stock — it just can’t quite agree on how much upside is left.