Stock · PLTR · Technology

Palantir Technologies Inc.

United States · Large Cap · listed since 2020 · Revenue 12 mo. $6.2B

Price as of 11/06/2026

StockScorer score
4.5
of 10 5 of 11 points Low Match To the score
Price
$160.38
1 Y −18.0%
Market cap
$397.9B
Phase
Growth
revenue growing, core business profitable
Revenue +32.9% a year (3 years)EBIT margin 31.6%Payout 3.5% of operating cash flow

Summary

Palantir Technologies Inc. is around the middle of the Technology sector overall

50.9 of 100

Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.

Analysis

What the price requires

The price requires more than 30% FCF growth a year, for 10 years.

If free cash flow stays at €1.9B (2025), it supports €20.9B. The remaining €336.1B of the market value assume it grows more than 30% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.

Required FCF growth per year

over 30%

no growth afterwards

Market value breakdown€357.1B market value, price as of 11/06/2026

€20.9B without growth
€336.1B priced-in growth

Valuation against its own history

Price to operating cash flow 121.2×, within its usual range.

Middle half of 20 quarters: 74.7× to 162.5×, median 90.1×.

Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.

1 sign supports the expectation, 1 speaks against it.

What supports it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Low capital needs capex median 1.0% of revenue (8 years)

What speaks against it

with respect to the priced-in expectation

  • Share count rising despite money spent on own shares shares +4.7% year on year

AI summary of the 2025 annual report

The business of Palantir Technologies Inc. according to its report

A language model selected and condensed statements from the report. Each statement carries a verbatim quote. The selection is not complete and shows the state of the report. It gives no rating and does not feed into the score.

Form 10-K, fiscal year ended 12/31/2025, filed 02/17/2026. Open the report at the SEC

Revenue by segment, fiscal year ended 12/31/2025

SegmentShareRevenue
Government
53.7%
$2.4B
Commercial
46.3%
$2.1B

From the report's structured data (XBRL), not from the language model. The sum can differ slightly from group revenue.

Business model according to the report

  • Foundry is a platform that gives organizations one central operating system for connected data, logic and actions.

    Quote
    Foundry transforms the ways organizations operate by creating a central operating system for their interconnected data, logic, and action.
  • AIP is the company's generative artificial intelligence platform. It provides secure access to large language models (LLMs), which are AI models for text, provided by third parties.

    Quote
    AIP is our generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) platform, which provides secure connectivity to third-party-provided large language models (“LLMs”)
  • Apollo is a single control point that coordinates ongoing delivery of new features, security updates and platform configurations.

    Quote
    Apollo provides a single control layer to coordinate ongoing delivery of new features, security updates, and platform configurations.
  • Gotham is used widely across government functions.

    Quote
    Gotham is used broadly across government functions.

Customers according to the report

  • In 2025 the company earned $4.5 billion in revenue. 54% came from government customers and 46% from commercial customers.

    Quote
    Of the $4.5 billion in revenue that we generated in 2025, 54% came from customers in the government segment, and 46% came from customers in the commercial segment.
  • In 2025, 74% of revenue came from customers in the United States and 26% from customers abroad.

    Quote
    In 2025, we earned 74% of our revenue from customers in the United States, and 26% from those abroad.
  • The company had 954 customers as of December 31, 2025.

    Quote
    As of December 31, 2025, we had 954 customers.

Competition according to the report

  • The company's main competition is the in-house software development of its potential customers.

    Quote
    We are fundamentally competing with the internal software development efforts of our potential customers.
  • Other competitors include large enterprise software companies, government contractors and system integrators.

    Quote
    In addition, our competitors include large enterprise software companies, government contractors, and system integrators.
  • Some competitors have greater name recognition, longer operating histories and larger customer bases. They also have larger sales and marketing budgets and can spread them across a broader product range.

    Quote
    some of our competitors have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, and larger customer bases; larger sales and marketing budgets and resources and the capacity to leverage their sales efforts and marketing expenditures across a broader portfolio of products

Risks according to the report

  • The top three customers made up 16% of revenue in 2025 and 17% in 2024.

    Quote
    Our top three customers together accounted for 16% and 17% of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
  • Many customer contracts may be ended by the customer at any time for convenience, meaning without a specific reason.

    Quote
    many of our customer contracts may be terminated by the customer at any time for convenience and may contain other provisions permitting the customer to discontinue contract performance
  • AI algorithms and models may be flawed. Data used for AI may be insufficient, of poor quality or show unwanted bias.

    Quote
    AI algorithms and models may be flawed. Datasets in AI training, development, or operations may be insufficient, of poor quality, reflect unwanted forms of bias
  • A large part of revenue comes from contracts with governments and government agencies, especially the U.S. government.

    Quote
    Because we generate a substantial portion of our revenue from contracts with governments and government agencies, and in particular from contracts with the U.S. government and government agencies

Since the last quarter

Q1 → Q2 2026

Mostly better than the previous quarter: 5 of 6 changes for the better.

  • Revenue, 12 mo.$5.2B → $6.2B+17.8%better
  • FCF, 12 mo.$2.7B → $3.4B+24.9%better
  • EBIT margin38.1% → 42.8%+4.7 ppbetter
  • FCF margin51.5% → 54.6%+3.1 ppbetter
  • Net debt−$2.1B → −$1.8B+12.6%worse
  • Return on equity27.0% → 30.9%+3.9 ppbetter

2 more unchanged: Gross margin, Shares outstanding

Derivation

How the sector comparison is derived

Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.

Price as of 11/06/2026.

Profitability75.1above the middleEarns more than the sector: FCF margin 46.94%, sector 18.54%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Return on equity22.00%14.60%Rank 68
Return on capital (Greenblatt)19.02%29.77%Rank 36
EBIT margin31.59%17.40%Rank 84
FCF margin46.94%18.54%Rank 96
Gross margin82.37%48.47%Rank 92
Growth55.5around the middleGrows about as fast as the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Revenue growth, 1 year56.18%12.70%Rank 93
Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank–9.54%
Earnings growth, 5 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank–14.07%
Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings)0.76%2.87%Rank 18
Valuation7.8below the middleValued higher than the sector: EV/sales 87.35, sector 5.18.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Earnings yield0.39%2.64%Rank 13
FCF yield0.53%3.06%Rank 12
EV/saleslower is better87.355.18Rank 1
EV/EBITlower is better276.4626.24Rank 4
Momentum56.8around the middleShare price moving about like the sector.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Share price, 1 year−17.99%−0.59%Rank 31
Share price, 6 months16.87%−4.46%Rank 73
Share price, 3 months−1.63%−5.84%Rank 58
Distance from 52-week high−23.28%−33.23%Rank 66
Quality33.7below the middleQuality below the sector: Accruals (Sloan) 29.84%, sector 1.65%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Accruals (Sloan)lower is better29.84%1.65%Rank 7
Change in share countlower is better4.67%−0.17%Rank 11
Dividend streak in years–8Rank 18
Price reaction to results, market-adjusted27.81%−1.57%Rank 99
Balance sheet & risk76.3above the middleLess risk than the sector: Equity ratio 83.00%, sector 53.98%.
MetricStockSector medianPosition in sector
Equity ratio83.00%53.98%Rank 94
Net debt/EBITDAlower is better−4.13−0.20Rank 92
Debt to equitylower is better0.030.33Rank 84
Volatility, 1 yearlower is better60.83%50.37%Rank 36

Ten years in figures

Revenue from $595.4M (2018) to $4.5B (2025), 33.4% a year.

Fiscal years, amounts in USD
YearRevenueEBIT marginFCFSharesNet debt
2018$595.4M−104.7%−$52.0M716M−$1.1B
2019$742.6M−77.6%−$178.3M716M−$683.1M
2020$1.1B−107.4%−$308.8M979M−$1.6B
2021$1.5B−26.7%$321.2M1.92B−$2.0B
2022$1.9B−8.5%$183.7M2.06B−$2.3B
2023$2.2B5.4%$697.1M2.30B−$602.0M
2024$2.9B10.8%$1.1B2.45B−$1.9B
2025$4.5B31.6%$2.1B2.57B−$1.2B
4.5 / 10Low MatchStockScorer score5 of 11 points

3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built

Palantir Technologies Inc. mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.

This stock · Profitability: 67%This stock · Growth: 50%This stock · Valuation: 0%This stock · Momentum: 0%Median of all stocks · Profitability: 33%Median of all stocks · Growth: 0%Median of all stocks · Valuation: 0%Median of all stocks · Momentum: 0%50%100%ProfitabilityGrowthValuationMomentumThis stockMedian of all stocks

How Palantir Technologies Inc.'s score is built

Palantir Technologies Inc. is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.

3 of 7 rules met

5 of 11 points

  1. Free cash flow yield above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  2. Return on capital (Greenblatt ROC) above the sector mediannot met0 of 2 points
  3. Return on equity above the sector medianmet1 of 1 point
  4. Free cash flow margin above the sector medianmet2 of 2 points
  5. Revenue growth above 15%met2 of 2 points
  6. 3-year earnings growth above 12% p.a.no data0 of 1 point
  7. 12-month share price more than 20 percentage points ahead of the marketnot met0 of 1 point
  8. Exclusion: financial and real estate stocksdoes not apply

Detail data

How does Palantir Technologies Inc. stock perform across 18 strategies?

Excerpt from 18 strategies checked. The full evaluation is visible after a free sign-up.

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  • Altman Z-Score: Stress Test
  • Earnings Quality: Accrual Check (Sloan)
  • Growth Momentum (CAN SLIM principle)
  • Undervalued Stocks: Multi-Factor Check
  • Levermann Strategy (13 Criteria)
  • Acquirer's Multiple: EV/EBIT Deep Value
  • Defensive: Low Volatility
  • Dividend Aristocrats & Continuity
  • Dividend Quality: 4 Factors
  • Magic Formula: Value + Quality
  • PEG Strategy (inspired by Peter Lynch)
  • Trending Value: Value + Momentum

Palantir Technologies Inc. key metrics: P/E, P/B and equity ratio

Selected fundamental metrics for Palantir Technologies Inc.

MetricStockSector
P/E ratio253.235.1
P/B ratio55.75.5
Return on equity (ROE)22.0%14.6%
Equity ratio83.0%54.0%
Debt-to-equity (D/E)0.030.33
Dividend yield0.0%0.9%

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Frequently asked questions about Palantir Technologies Inc. stock

How does Palantir Technologies Inc. stock (PLTR) score in the StockScorer model?
Palantir Technologies Inc. stock reaches a StockScorer score of 4.5 out of 10, which is a low match with the rule-based strategies. 3 out of 7 flagship profile rules are met.
What is Palantir Technologies Inc.'s P/E ratio?
Palantir Technologies Inc.'s P/E ratio is 253.2. The Technology sector median is 35.1.
What sector is Palantir Technologies Inc. in?
Palantir Technologies Inc. is assigned to the Technology sector. Its rank within the sector is 50.9 out of 100: 100 means the stock leads its peer group of large and mid-cap sector stocks in every measured area.

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