Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of KEYW Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:KEYW) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research note released on Wednesday, Marketbeat.com reports.

According to Zacks, “KEYW Corporation with its subsidiaries is engaged in providing mission-critical cyber security and cyber superiority solutions to defense, intelligence and national security agencies. Its solutions, services and products support the collection, processing, analysis, and use of intelligence data and information in the domain of cyberspace. The Company provides a full range of engineering services as well as fully integrated platforms that support the entire intelligence process. Its platform includes products that it manufactures, as well as hardware and software that the Company integrates using its engineering services. Its current customers include the National Security Agency (NSA), other intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense (including major agencies and branches within the Department of Defense) and other federal defense and law enforcement agencies. KEYW Corporation is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. “

Shares of KEYW Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:KEYW) traded down 9.29% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $4.49. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 284,837 shares. KEYW Holding Corp. has a 52 week low of $4.43 and a 52 week high of $12.59. The firm’s market capitalization is $174.67 million. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $5.65 and a 200-day moving average of $7.11.

KEYW Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:KEYW) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 9th. The company reported ($0.20) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.11) by $0.09. The firm earned $81.10 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $82.91 million. During the same period last year, the firm posted ($0.08) EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts forecast that KEYW Holding Corp. will post ($1.29) earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

KEYW has been the subject of a number of other reports. RBC Capital dropped their price objective on KEYW Holding Corp. from $12.00 to $11.00 and set an outperform rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 10th. FBR & Co. dropped their price objective on KEYW Holding Corp. from $8.00 to $7.00 and set a market perform rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 10th. Finally, Imperial Capital restated an in-line rating and set a $6.50 price objective (down from $7.00) on shares of KEYW Holding Corp. in a report on Wednesday, November 18th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock presently has an average rating of Hold and an average price target of $8.25.

The KEYW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:KEYW) is a provider of cybersecurity, cyber superiority and geospatial intelligence solutions to the United States Government defense, intelligence and national security agencies, and commercial enterprises. The Company operates through two segments: Government Solutions and Commercial Cyber Solutions. KEYW’s Government Solutions segment is focused on the United States Intelligence Community (IC) customers, including the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and various other agencies within the IC and Department of Defense (DoD). The Company’s Commercial Cyber Solutions segment provides analytic software packages, and related maintenance and services. The Company also provides a range of engineering services, cybersecurity and analytic products, and integrated platforms that support the intelligence process.

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