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Palantir did the thing investors love: it beat
Palantir shares popped about 2.5% to $146.39 after the company reported earnings that looked very much like a growth-stock fireworks show. EPS landed at $0.25, ahead of the $0.23 estimate, while revenue climbed to $1.41 billion — up roughly 70% from a year ago.
Great quarter, giant expectations
This is the part where the market does its favorite trick: celebrate the growth, then immediately ask, “Okay, but can you do that again?” Palantir’s valuation is still nosebleed territory, with a P/E around 232 and a market cap near $350 billion, so a strong print doesn’t automatically make the stock cheap. It just gives bulls more ammunition.
The Street is still split
Analysts are broadly upbeat, with MarketBeat showing a Moderate Buy consensus and an average target near $197. A few names are still throwing out higher price targets, which tells you the story here is less about whether Palantir is interesting and more about whether it can keep growing fast enough to justify the sticker price.
The bear case isn’t going away
Then there’s the messy part investors can’t ignore:
- Heavy insider selling, with more than 1.0 million shares sold over the past 90 days
- Ongoing competition chatter, including headlines around Anthropic
- Execution risk, because when you’re priced like a star quarterback, everyone notices every fumble
Big picture: Palantir is still in that weird category of “best-in-class growth story” and “please don’t look too closely at the valuation” all at once. That can keep the stock moving — both up and down — depending on whether the next headline sounds like momentum or reality.