Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) Stock Analysis

Price updated today · SEC data refreshed 3 months ago · Not investment advice

Palantir Technologies Inc.

PLTR Technology Software📄 SEC filings ↗ CUSIP 69608A108
Valuation N/A
▾ What's in the 43/100 risk score? (higher = riskier)
Fundamental health (43%) 22/100 → +9.4
leverage 20/100 · FCF trend 25/100 · Altman Z not scored — input unavailable (see Financial Health)
Smart money (short interest + insider buying) (31%) 79/100 → +24.8
Macro backdrop (VIX, curve, credit, fear/greed + week-over-week momentum) (26%) 33/100 → +8.5
Total43/100

Contributions (weight × component score) sum to the total. This near-term score now includes fundamental health (leverage, FCF trend). It excludes the Altman Z score, whose retained-earnings input this filer does not report separately. See the Financial Health section for the full balance-sheet read.

💵 Price $172.56 · today 📄 Financials SEC EDGAR · refreshed 3 months ago

How to read PLTR

We are not publishing an intrinsic value for this one — the section below says exactly why. Everything on this page that comes straight from the filings and the tape is still here; treat the missing valuation as a known gap, not as a verdict on the business.

Where to start — the sections that matter most for this stock
  1. 1 Reported earnings & margins ↓
    What the company actually reported — unaffected by the valuation being held.
  2. 2 Balance sheet & book value ↓
    Assets, liabilities and equity as filed.
  3. 3 Who's selling & betting against it ↓
    Insider and short-interest behaviour needs no valuation model.
Or — what are you trying to decide?
A note on process: fear-driven decisions — including fear of missing out — tend to be the expensive ones. A stock up 10% a day for three days is excitement, not evidence. Whichever reader you are, the data below is there to be checked before anything is decided.
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"It's surging — should I chase it?"
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"Is it a cheap bargain?"
The deep-value trade. How far below assets and our value it trades — and whether it's cheap for a reason.
ⓘ A share-count quirk blocked the per-share math

The share count we read for PLTR looks wrong — common for multi-class / founder-controlled filers that report shares per share-class. That makes per-share figures (including intrinsic value) misleading, so we suppressed them. The company's total financials below are sound.

What to use instead: Lean on the totals — revenue, net income, cash flow — and the balance sheet. Multi-class share counts are being corrected; once fixed, the per-share valuation returns automatically.

This note is only about the single DCF fair-value number — PLTR's full financial statements, health scores, and written analysis are all below.

ⓘ Why does PLTR trade at $172.56?

Palantir Technologies Inc. has 2.57 billion shares outstanding. At $172.56 per share, the market values all outstanding PLTR equity at $442.7 billion. That's market capitalization, not enterprise value — enterprise value also accounts for debt and cash (PLTR carries little or no debt, so the two are close here). The share price by itself tells you almost nothing — a company can pick any share price by splitting or issuing more shares. What matters is the total value (Market Cap?Market Cap — The total dollar value the market is assigning to the entire company.
Why it matters: This is the number that actually matters when comparing companies. Two companies with the same business but different share counts have the same market cap.
Reference: Mega cap >$200B · Large $10–200B · Mid $2–10B · Small $300M–2B · Micro <$300M
Full explanation →
) compared to what the business actually produces. This page values PLTR in Per Share?Per Share — A company-level figure divided by total shares — what one share represents.
Why it matters: Per-share metrics are the only way to fairly compare two companies with different share counts.
Full explanation →
economics — what each share represents of the underlying business. Play with the share-price calculator on the homepage →

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Football field: where does the price sit?

Different valuation methods produce different fair-value ranges depending on assumptions. Plotting them together lets you see at a glance whether the current price is reasonable across approaches, or only one specific lens.

$7$51$95$139$183Current price $172.56EV / Sales (p25→p75)$7.53$28.47
The current price sits ABOVE the high end of every method. The market is paying a premium to all of these lenses — it expects materially better growth or margins than the models assume.

Industry multiples sourced from: industry: Software. See the Peer Basket section below for the peer comparison and its limited-comparables caveat.

⚠ We found only 2 genuine same-industry (Software) comparables — fewer than the 4 we require for a reliable median. The 3 names in the table below therefore include 1 broader Technology name marked fallback, whose business models and margins differ — which is why any median below is computed over that wider set, not over true comparables. So we do not derive a peer-implied share value here. Read the multiples as rough context only.

How does PLTR stack up against its closest peers?

Ideally we compare PLTR only to same-industry peers, but too few exist in our universe right now, so the basket below mixes in broader-sector names. Treat the multiples as rough context, not a valuation. For a leveraged business, EV/EBIT and FCF yield (both in the table) are usually more reliable than EV/Sales, because revenue multiples ignore differences in margins and debt.

▾ What's "EV / Sales" in plain English?

EV (Enterprise Value) = market cap + total debt − cash. It's "what you'd pay to buy the entire company outright" — you pay the market cap to shareholders and take over their debt, but you keep their cash. EV is fairer than market cap alone because it includes the debt the new owner inherits.

EV / Sales = EV ÷ annual revenue. So "2.5×" means investors pay $2.50 of enterprise value per $1 of yearly sales. Higher = market is paying more per dollar of sales (usually because they expect future growth or fat margins).

p25 / median / p75 are the 25th, 50th (middle), and 75th percentile of the peers' multiples. Half the peers fall between p25 and p75. The median (p50) is the typical peer — that's the benchmark we compare to.

What peers trade at (p25 / median / p75)

Bold middle number = median peer. Half the peers trade above it, half below. Computed over 3 peers (broad — see caveat); implausible multiples excluded.

Peer-implied value check
We're not showing a peer-implied price for PLTR: with only 2 genuine same-industry comparables, a median built partly from broader-sector names would be misleading. Lean on the DCF above; use the multiples table only as loose context.

⚠️ Important caveat: peer multiples only work if the peers are genuinely comparable. Always check the peer list below — if the auto-picker grabbed micro-caps or unrelated businesses, the comparison is noise. A medical-device giant priced against tiny biotech startups won't produce a useful signal.

▾ View peer list (3)
Ticker Company Industry Mcap EV/Sales EV/GPEV/EBIT FCF Yield
SAP SAP SE Software $223.3B 11.3x
YMM Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. Software $184.6B suspect 103.4x 311.3x 0.3%
SHOP SHOPIFY INC. Software ·fallback $154.9B 13.4x 27.9x105.5x 1.0%

Quality & solvency checks

Cheap stocks can be cheap for a reason. These screens warn when a low valuation comes paired with structural fragility.

Altman Z-Score?Altman Z-Score — A bankruptcy-risk score combining 5 financial ratios into one number. Predictive of bankruptcy within 2 years.
Why it matters: Cheap-looking stocks (low P/E or P/B) often have low Z-scores because the market knows the company is dying. Z-score warns you before you fall into a value trap.
Reference: > 3.0 = safe zone · 1.81–3.0 = grey zone · < 1.81 = distress zone
Full explanation →
n/a
Not reliably computable

We can't produce a trustworthy Altman Z here: retained earnings weren't separately reported in our data, so a core input would have to be fabricated. Rather than show a categorical "distress" verdict from an invented number, we mark it unavailable. The classic manufacturing-calibrated model also fits asset-light businesses like this one poorly. Judge financial health from the leverage, cash position, and the measurable Piotroski checks instead.

Piotroski F-Score?Piotroski F-Score — A 9-point quality checklist scoring profitability, leverage, and operating efficiency.
Why it matters: High score = fundamentals improving. Low score = deteriorating. Especially powerful for filtering cheap stocks: cheap + high F-score historically outperforms; cheap + low F-score is often a value trap.
Reference: 7–9 = strong · 4–6 = mediocre · 0–3 = weak
Full explanation →
8 / 9
Strong
▾ The checks — what passed, what didn't (and what we couldn't measure)
  • Positive net income
    Net income $1,625.0M in FY2025.
  • Positive operating cash flow
    Operating cash flow $2,134.5M (was $1,153.9M the prior year).
  • Cash flow backs up reported profit
    Operating cash flow $2,134.5M vs net income $1,625.0M.
  • Return on assets improving
    Return on assets 18.3% vs 7.3% a year ago.
  • Debt load (vs assets)
    The filing reports no interest-bearing debt in either year (total assets $8,900.4M).
  • Short-term liquidity (current ratio)
    Current ratio 7.11x vs 5.96x a year ago.
  • Share count (dilution)
    Share count rose 4.7% (2,450.8M → 2,565.2M year-over-year).
    Why this matters: Issuing lots of new shares splits the pie into more pieces, shrinking your slice. Stable or falling share count protects existing owners.
  • Pricing power (gross margin)
    Gross margin 82.4% vs 80.2% a year ago.
  • Sales per asset (asset turnover)
    Asset turnover 0.50x vs 0.45x a year ago.

Missing data is never counted as a pass or a fail — it's shown as n/a and excluded from the denominator. Each check compares the company against its own prior year.

What if you assume different inputs?

Here's where we land — and what happens if you change the assumptions. Drag the sliders to set your own Discount Rate?Discount Rate — The annual return you demand for taking single-stock risk instead of buying a safe Treasury or index fund.
Why it matters: Higher discount rate = stricter valuation (a stock has to produce more cash to be worth holding). Lower = more generous.
Reference: 8–12% is standard · 9–10% matches S&P 500 historical return · Below 7% is illogical for single-stock risk
Full explanation →
(the annual return you demand for single-stock risk) and terminal growth; the value updates live so you can see whether the stock looks cheaper or richer. The discount rate starts at 10.0%, the figure our model used for PLTR. Open Advanced to also change beta, growth and the rate path.

Note: no headline intrinsic value is published for this stock (the valuation is held for a data-quality reason — see the notes above). The calculator below is a what-if tool: the values it produces are your assumptions played out, not our estimate.

4.5% (risk-free)9-10% normal18% (deep-risk)
0%2-3% (GDP)5% (rarely sustainable)

A full intrinsic value isn't shown for PLTR because the valuation is currently held for a data-quality reason (see the guardrail notes above). The reverse-DCF reading still works — it needs only the price and cash flow — but we won't publish a forward value until the underlying data passes our checks.

For comparison — the revenue growth today's price already assumes

⚙ Advanced — tinker with every input (beta, growth, rate path, margin → full intrinsic value)
Where the discount rate comes from — discount rate = risk-free + beta × equity-risk-premium
What you'd earn risk-free from government bonds — the floor under every other rate. Slide it down to model the market expecting rate cuts (value rises); up for higher-for-longer.
The extra yearly return investors demand for owning stocks instead of safe bonds — the price of risk. History runs ~4.5–6.5%; we default to 5.5% (slightly conservative). It's an estimate, not a law — lower it if you think equities are less risky than that.
Inflation reduces the purchasing power of a nominal return: a 9% gain at 3% inflation is about 6% in real terms. The intrinsic value above is already in today's dollars (a nominal DCF carries inflation in both the growth and the discount rate), so this switch does not change the value — it restates the return in real terms.
Higher beta → higher discount rate (sets the rate above). 1.0 = moves with the market.
What you think PLTR can grow revenue for ~5 years, then fades to terminal.
For a pre-profit company: the % of revenue that eventually becomes free cash flow once mature. (Our published value uses the sector norm.)
All inputs start at the values our model used.

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    Price$172.56
    Model IVNot applicable — DCF couldn't price this stock. The other valuation lenses on this page (reverse-DCF, peers, sector lens — whichever apply to this filer) carry the read instead.

    A standard discounted cash flow?DCF — Discounted Cash Flow — sums up all future cash a business will produce, adjusted for the fact that future dollars are worth less than dollars today.
    Why it matters: It is the most fundamentally honest valuation method when applicable — but only works for companies with predictable, positive cash flow.
    Reference: Best for: mature, profitable businesses. Fails for: pre-profit growth, banks, REITs.
    Full explanation →
    (DCF) valuation is not meaningful for Palantir due to its 'Extreme valuation' flag and the model's inability to capture future growth and optionality. While the company exhibits positive operating cash flow and revenue growth of 30.5%/yr, its current market price is significantly higher than the model's intrinsic value?Intrinsic Value — Our DCF model's estimate of what each share is mathematically worth based on projected cash flows.
    Why it matters: Compare to current price. Below IV = potentially undervalued. Above IV = priced for growth that must actually happen.
    Reference: Model-derived; quality depends on data and assumptions.
    Full explanation →
    , suggesting investors are betting on continued rapid expansion and the market may be assigning value to future product development in AI/ML for government and commercial sectors, which is not in the model. The number one quantifiable risk is the extreme valuation (P/IV?P/IV — Current price divided by our intrinsic value estimate.
    Why it matters: Below 1.0 = stock trades below model fair value. Above 1.0 = stock trades above model fair value (must justify with growth that exceeds our assumptions).
    Reference: < 0.85 = potentially undervalued · 0.85–1.10 = fair · > 1.10 = premium
    Full explanation →
    15.9085x) relative to current cash flows.

    ⚠️ Revenue/margin projection model used - trailing FCF may understate growth runway at current scale.

    As of 3 months ago

    Anatomy of a share

    What you're buying per share. Bars are at the same scale so you can see the relative size of revenue, costs, cash flow, and debt — not just read them in a table.

    PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. stock anatomy showing per-share revenue, operating expenses, free cash flow, and debt
    36.3%
    profit
    Where each $1 of revenue goes
    Net profit — 36.3¢ of every dollar ($0.63/sh — latest fiscal-year net income per share)
    Costs & taxes — 63.7¢ (on $1.74 revenue/sh)
    Net margin = net income ÷ revenue (most recent fiscal year).
    Plain English: each share (at $173) represents $1.74 of revenue per share per year, $0.63 of net income per current share, and $0.55 of free cash flow per share from the latest fiscal year. The filing reports no interest-bearing debt — the 1.4B of total liabilities on the balance sheet are operating items (payables, leases, deferred taxes), not borrowings.
    What's free cash flow / what do these mean?

    Revenue per share — how much the business earns from customers, divided by the number of shares outstanding. Top of the income statement.

    Earnings per share — profit left after operating costs, interest, and taxes, per share. Two versions appear on this page and are not interchangeable: GAAP diluted EPS uses the company's weighted-average diluted share count during the reporting period (this is the "earnings" in "price-to-earnings"); net income per current share divides annual net income by today's share count. They differ whenever the share count has changed.

    Owner-earnings free cash flow per share — the cash the business produces for shareholders. Savng's owner-earnings FCF subtracts capital expenditures and stock-based compensation from operating cash flow (SBC is a real dilution cost even though it's non-cash). This is deliberately more conservative than "standard" FCF, which subtracts only capital expenditures — so our figure is lower than the headline FCF you'll see elsewhere. FCF funds dividends, buybacks, debt repayment, and acquisitions; a company can report positive earnings yet negative FCF.

    Debt per share — total interest-bearing borrowings divided by shares. High debt-per-share next to thin FCF-per-share is a fragility signal.

    What you actually need to decide

    Every stock price is a disagreement. Here's the single thing that must go right for the bulls, the single thing that breaks the thesis, and the concrete signposts to watch so you can update your view as real results arrive.

    🐂 The Bull Case
    For the stock to work, Palantir must sustain its revenue growth rate, ideally accelerating beyond the current 30.5%/yr, by expanding its commercial client base and securing larger government contracts, leading to continued positive net income and operating cash flow.
    🐻 The Bear Case
    The biggest fundamental risk is the extreme valuation (P/IV?P/IV — Current price divided by our intrinsic value estimate.
    Why it matters: Below 1.0 = stock trades below model fair value. Above 1.0 = stock trades above model fair value (must justify with growth that exceeds our assumptions).
    Reference: < 0.85 = potentially undervalued · 0.85–1.10 = fair · > 1.10 = premium
    Full explanation →
    15.9085x); if revenue growth decelerates significantly or profitability does not scale as expected, the current market price may be unsustainable.
    📌 Signposts to watch — update your view as these print
    • Acceleration or deceleration of commercial revenue growth
    • New large-scale government contract announcements
    • Trends in gross and operating margins

    The trend, in plain numbers (FY2024 → FY2025, latest reported)

    Straight from the financial statements — no model, no opinion. For a small or unprofitable company, the direction of these numbers usually tells you more than any single valuation.

    ✅ Improving
    • Revenue grew +56% to $4.48B.
    • Free cash flow rose to $1.42B.
    • Gross margin improved to 82% (+2 pts).
    • Net income grew +252% to $1.63B.

    Nothing was clearly worsening year-over-year.

    Management & Leadership

    Alex Karp has served as CEO of Palantir Technologies since 2003, co-founding the company with Peter Thiel and others. The executive team focuses on developing and deploying its data integration and analytics platforms for complex organizational challenges.

    Karp Alexander C.
    CEO — per latest SEC filing (2026-08-24)
    Glazer David A.
    CFO — per latest SEC filing (2026-05-22)
    Peter Thiel
    Co-Founder and Chairman

    Names marked "per latest SEC filing" come from Form 4 / Item 408 filings and take precedence over our AI-compiled roster when they differ.

    What They Make

    Palantir Technologies develops software platforms for integrating, managing, and securing data. Its products, Foundry and Gotham, are used by government agencies and commercial enterprises to make data-driven decisions.

    End Markets

    Government agenciesCommercial enterprisesDefense and intelligence

    Revenue Drivers

    Government contracts
    Commercial software subscriptions
    Consulting and implementation services
    CEO: Karp Alexander C.Market Cap: 442.7BBeta: 1.61

    Why Is It Priced Like This?

    Why Customers Pay

    Integrates disparate data sources for unified analysis
    Provides advanced analytics and AI capabilities
    Enhances decision-making for complex operations
    No discounted-cash-flow value for this filer We aren't publishing a discounted-cash-flow value here: the model's output failed our plausibility checks, so showing it would imply more precision than we have.

    What we use instead: earnings (P/E, EV/EBIT), book value (P/B) — computed from the figures this company does report, shown in the sections below. Those numbers are unaffected by the missing cash-flow data.

    The market is pricing Palantir based on expectations of continued high revenue growth (30.5%/yr over 4yr) and expanding gross margins (78% to 82.4%), rather than solely on current cash flows. The 'Extreme valuation' flag suggests investors are assigning significant value to future optionality, such as expanding its AI/ML capabilities into new commercial verticals or securing large-scale government contracts, which are not fully captured by backward-looking models.

    Business Model & Valuation

    How They Make Money

    Software license subscriptions for Gotham platform
    Software license subscriptions for Foundry platform
    Professional services for platform implementation and customization

    The company funds itself primarily through its positive operating cash flow, which has been positive for 5/5 years, and has been profitable in 3/5 years, indicating self-sustaining growth rather than relying on equity raises.

    Growth / Revenue DCF Moderate franchise

    Extreme market premium (P/FCF 265x): market is pricing future growth far beyond current FCF. Using revenue/margin model.

    Show advanced inputs
    Revenue Growth30.5%

    What this model does NOT do: this is a consolidated owner-earnings FCF model. Standalone segment assumptions: none. It does not project product, services and recurring/cloud lines independently; their combined effect is embedded in the historical revenue and cash-flow trend the model extrapolates. The calculator above can only approximate a segment's impact through the single consolidated growth rate — it cannot model any one line separately. For a true segment-level view, build a separate model from the company's segment disclosures.

    Maturity & Competitive Position

    High-growth technology

    Moat Signals

    Proprietary data integration and analytics platforms
    Deep relationships with government agencies
    High switching costs for integrated enterprise solutions

    Revenue has been growing at 30.5%/yr over the last four years, from $1542M to $4475M.

    Geography & Markets

    Palantir is headquartered in the United States and has a significant global presence, serving both government and commercial clients across North America, Europe, and Asia. Specific geographic revenue mix percentages are not available from current data sources.

    Geographic Risks

    Concentration risk in government contracts, which can be subject to political and budgetary changes
    Intense competition in the data analytics and AI software market

    Market Signals

    These are timing signals, not value signals — they describe the stock's recent price behavior, not what the business is worth. Use them for the "the thesis looks good, but is now the moment?" question. Each tile below explains what it's saying.

    Model neutral, tape neutral - aligned.
    RSI?RSI — Relative Strength Index — a 0-100 momentum gauge. Above 70 = overbought; below 30 = oversold.
    Why it matters: Short-term contrarian indicator. Extreme readings often precede mean reversion, though not always.
    Reference: 30–70 normal · >70 overbought · <30 oversold
    Full explanation →
    (14)
    67.4NeutralMomentum is balanced — neither overbought nor oversold.
    MACD?MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence — compares a fast and a slow price trend to gauge momentum direction.
    Why it matters: When the fast line crosses above the slow line, short-term momentum is turning up; below, turning down. A timing cue, not a value signal.
    Reference: Line above signal = bullish momentum · below = bearish
    Full explanation →
    BullishLine above signalThe fast trend is above the slow trend — short-term momentum is currently upward.
    50-Day Average$141.79Price above (+21.7%)Price above its 50-day average = near-term uptrend.
    200-Day Average$161.78Price aboveThe 200-day line is the long-term trend divider — above it is generally considered a bull market for the stock.
    50 vs 200 CrossDeath50-day below 200-dayA "death cross" — the medium trend is below the long trend (often read as bearish).

    Technicals describe price, not the business. A great company can have a "bearish" tape (a buying chance) and a weak one a "bullish" tape (a trap). Pair these with the valuation and health sections above.

    Data Quality & Risk Flags (4 notes — click to expand/collapse)

    Guardrail Notes (4)
    • Revenue/margin projection model used - trailing FCF may understate growth runway at current scale.
    • Price is far above the model output - market may be pricing optionality, narrative catalysts, or margin expansion beyond what trailing cash flows support.
    • Extreme valuation (P/IV withheld — see the note above); output dominated by data/units issue (often a multi-class share-count mismatch). Suppressed.
    • DATA UNAVAILABLE: per-share values suppressed due to missing/unreliable shares data.

    Financial Statements (5-year tables — click to expand)

    From Palantir Technologies Inc.'s SEC filings (EDGAR).

    Income (5yr)

    YearRevenueNet IncomeEPS
    20254.5B1.6B$0.63
    20242.9B462.2M$0.19
    20232.2B209.8M$0.09
    20221.9B-373.7M$-0.18
    20211.5B-520.4M$-0.27

    Cash Flow (5yr)

    YearOperating CFCapEx− SBC & adj.Free Cash Flow
    2025 2.1B 33.9M 684.0M 1.4B
    2024 1.2B 12.6M 691.6M 449.6M
    2023 712.2M 15.1M 475.9M 221.2M
    2022 223.7M 40.0M 564.8M -381.1M
    2021 333.9M 12.6M 778.2M -457.0M

    How we define FCF: operating cash flow − capital expenditure − stock-based compensation (owner-earnings basis — SBC is a real cost to shareholders even though it's non-cash). Latest year: 2.1B − 33.9M − 684.0M (SBC & adj.) = 1.4B. This is the same owner-earnings FCF definition the valuation model uses, though the DCF's starting value is a projected from revenue × terminal margin, not this single year.

    Balance Sheet

    Total Assets8.9B
    Total Liabilities1.4B
    Equity7.4B

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