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Palantir Technologies Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 85% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (40.9K/wk), no spike
$PLTR·$291B·Software - Infrastructure·Technology
$132.38-1.5%YTD-27.0%1Y-14.0%
Mentions · last 7 days
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$PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc.
$132.38-1.53%33k posts+19%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $PLTR, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

Catching its breath after a run — could pick back up or fade from here.

The customer wins keep landing; the multiple still assumes near-perfect execution.

Palantir sells the AI-native operating layer for governments and large enterprises — Foundry for the data plumbing, AIP for the LLM workflows on top. The stock has cooled sharply from last year's frenzy while the underlying customer wins keep piling up.

How the two sides balance:

  • The commercial pipeline is filling in fast: NATO deploying Foundry on the eastern flank, Rackspace embedding it for regulated enterprises, Tampa General replacing Epic's sepsis alerting — these are the kind of anchor wins that make follow-on modules an easier sell.
  • Fundamentals justify the "real business" call: 84% gross margins, 38% operating margins, and near-zero debt mean the platform earns real cash on real contracts rather than borrowed narrative TAM.
  • The check is the multiple: 60x TTM sales and 154x EV/EBITDA are still steep even after a 25% year-to-date drawdown, so any pause in customer-count acceleration compresses the multiple further.
  • Insider signal is cautious: COO Shyam Sankar sold $24M in early July — one insider, one filing, but zero offsetting buys as the stock probes the lower end of its 52-week range.

The customer wins keep validating the platform, but the valuation still assumes near-perfect execution. What restarts the move is a specific number — commercial ACV growth reaccelerating in the next print — and what breaks it is a quarter showing the government-heavy revenue mix flattening.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish on customer wins and the SaaS re-rate thesis, and the underlying wins are real (NATO, Rackspace, Tampa General). The tension the crowd isn't naming is that a 60x sales multiple leaves no room for the commercial ramp to soft-land — which is what's kept the stock at the bottom of its range.

What to watch: The next quarterly print — commercial ACV growth reaccelerating to 40%+ and net-dollar retention holding above 120% is what unfreezes the multiple. Another quarter of flat-ish commercial growth deepens the drawdown.

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment28 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-17

Palantir chatter is uniformly bullish on structural share gain in defense AI. Posters cite ~143% projected revenue growth over two years, best-in-class $1.26M revenue-per-employee, and Palantir being selected as part of the US Army's finalized NGC2 common data layer baseline (the Army's #1 priority command-and-control modernization). Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar's Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit talk, Jamie Dimon publicly discussing Alex Karp on CNBC, and speculation about a government stake announcement round out the catalyst set. Options traders flag a 216% intraday move on 7/17 $135 calls. The main critical thread is generic AI-bubble caution and one 'morally bankrupt' list, but nothing substantive on the business.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Builds AI data platforms for US intelligence agencies, military, and commercial enterprises to analyze complex operational data.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Infrastructure sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $PLTR.

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

No material change from last week — Enterprise software infrastructure is in a multiple compression phase (-16.

What this means for $PLTR

Partial — Builds AI data platforms for US intelligence agencies, military, and commercial enterprises to analyze complex operational data; exposure exists but is diluted by diverse end markets and revenue mix.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-12.9%YTD
-16.6%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
142.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
22.3%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
38.1%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
0.9%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
59.6Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
32.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
84.1%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 4, 2026$0.33$0.28+19.0%
Q4 2025Feb 2, 2026$0.25$0.23+8.6%
Q3 2025Nov 3, 2025$0.21$0.17+25.1%
Q2 2025Aug 4, 2025$0.16$0.14+15.8%
Next earningsMon, Aug 3·consensus EPS $0.35

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$1.6B+84.7%86.8%46.2%$0.36$891.8M
Q4 FY25$1.4B+70.0%84.6%40.9%$0.26$764.0M
Q3 FY25$1.2B+62.8%82.4%33.3%$0.20$501.9M
Q2 FY25$1.0B+48.0%80.8%26.8%$0.14$531.6M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 24 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$7.7B$7.7B – $7.9B$1.46$1.28 – $1.6923
FY27$11.2B$10.6B – $11.9B$2.08$1.61 – $2.5624
FY28$16.2B$16.1B – $16.3B$3.06$2.34 – $3.6917
FY29$31.2B$29.9B – $34.8B$6.05$5.71 – $6.9514
FY30$68.8B$65.8B – $76.7B$13.27$12.53 – $15.258

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.8×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.26%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-0.1%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-14.9%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 2.2B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.4% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.565-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 15Alexander D. MooreDirector16.0K sh$2.1MSellJul 2Shyam SankarSee Remarks185.0K sh$24.1MSellJun 15Alexander D. MooreDirector16.0K sh$2.1MSellJun 11Jeffrey BuckleySee Remarks1.5K sh$191KSellJun 1Stat Lauren Elaina FriedmanDirector1.6K sh$256KSellMay 29Stat Lauren Elaina FriedmanDirector1.7K sh$250KSellMay 22Jeffrey BuckleySee Remarks830 sh$114KSellMay 20Jeffrey BuckleySee Remarks1.7K sh$233KSellMay 20David A. GlazerSee Remarks17.1K sh$2.3MSellMay 20Ryan D. TaylorSee Remarks19.7K sh$2.7M
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 98-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) held its 2026 Annual Meeting on June 3, 2026, with all seven director nominees elected, including Alexander Karp, Stephen Cohen, Peter Thiel, Alexander Moore, Alexandra Schiff, Lauren Friedman Stat, and Eric Woersching. The meeting utilized a tri-class voting structure (Class A = 1 vote, Class B = 10 votes, Class F = ~160-1,260 votes per share depending on proposal), concentrating significant control in founding insiders. Additional proposals (2-6) were voted on but the body excerpt was truncated before final tabulation; the filing is routine governance disclosure with no immediate financial impact.

8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 48-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

PLTR reported period ending 2026-05-04 financial results (8-K Item 2.02). Investors should review the full earnings press release and any management guidance for forward outlook.

8-KPress release / Reg FDFeb 28-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Meet TMGN, the 0.88% Fee ETF Betting on Tech Giants and Options Income247wallst.com·13h agoPalantir's Wild Ride: Inside the Stock Wall Street Can't Agree Onmarketbeat.com·20h ago3 Hypergrowth Stocks That You Should Consider Buying in July247wallst.com·20h agoAlex Karp Grouped Palantir With These 3 Unstoppable Stocks as the Only True Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Winnersfool.com·1d agoPalantir and Sandisk Stocks Are Down 35% and 25%, but Only One Is a Buy Nowfool.com·2d ago

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AI InfrastructureAgentic AI & Enterprise SoftwareDefense & Drones

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