Why did Palantir Technologies (PLTR) stock move recently?

On 9/3/2026, Palantir Technologies moved +8.7% — Palantir Technologies rose after its subsidiary Palantir USG secured a US Army prime contractor agreement to manufacture and deliver eight TITAN ground-station systems. The company separately said former AIG chief executive Peter Zaffino would join as its global head of financial services. This is MarketChacha's decoded reason from filings and credible news; it is education, not buy/sell advice.

Is Palantir Technologies (PLTR) overvalued or fairly valued?

MarketChacha shows Palantir Technologies's valuation in context — a trailing P/E of about 157.8, a forward P/E of about 71.9, a price-to-book of about 41.1 — alongside its revenue and profit growth and whether reported profit converts into operating cash, so you can judge value for yourself. MarketChacha does not issue ratings, price targets, or buy/sell advice.

Does Palantir Technologies's reported profit turn into cash?

Over 3 years, operating cash flow fully covered reported profit — earnings are backed by real cash. MarketChacha computes this cash-conversion check (1.74×) from reported figures — education, not a rating.

What is Palantir Technologies's revenue?

Palantir Technologies reported revenue of $4.5B for FY2025, with net profit of $1.6B, per official filings.

What is the share price of Palantir Technologies (PLTR)?

Palantir Technologies last traded at $167.23 (+0.8% on the day), as of 9/11/2026 — a delayed quote shown for education, not investment advice.

Palantir Technologies

PLTR · NASDAQ · Technology · United States

Snapshot

TickerPLTR

ExchangeNASDAQ

SectorTechnology

IndustrySoftware - Infrastructure

CountryUnited States

Employees4,401

HeadquartersAventura, United States

Websitewww.palantir.com

Filings tracked11

About Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It provides Palantir Gotham integrates with other platforms for defense offerings which enables users to see, understand, and act in the modern battlespace; operations centers to the tactical edge; integrating data from domains and sensors in near real-time; and situational awareness and accelerating operational decision-making, as well as facilitates the hand-off between analysts and operational users, helping operators plan and execute real-world responses to threats that have been identified within the platform. It also offers Palantir Foundry, a platform that helps organizations operate by creating a central operating system for their data; and allows individual users to integrate and analyze the data they need in one place. In addition, it provides Palantir Apollo, a software that delivers software and updates across the business, as well as enables customers to deploy their software virtually in any environment; and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform that provides unified access to open-source, self-hosted, and commercial large language models (LLMs) that can transform structured and unstructured data into LLM-understandable objects and can turn organizations' actions and processes into tools for humans and LLM-driven agents. The company also has a strategic partnership with Ondas Inc. to develop and deploy AI-enabled operational capabilities to scale stratospheric, aerial, and land-based ISR missions. The company has a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver an intelligent engine for running NVIDIA AI and Nemotron open models in sovereign environments and with PwC to transform critical business operations and deliver measurable enterprise value. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Aventura, Florida.

Who owns it

Insiders3.5%
Institutions64.7%
Public & other31.8%

3,638 institutional holders

Ownership breakdown from public market data.

Top holders

Blackrock Inc.8.70%
Vanguard Capital Management LLC6.70%
State Street Corporation4.79%
Invesco Ltd.3.23%
Geode Capital Management, LLC2.54%
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC2.31%
Morgan Stanley1.56%
NORGES BANK1.43%

Largest institutional holders — last updated 6/30/2026.

Forensic scorecard

No major accounting red flags in the fundamentals we have — profit is backed by cash and returns look healthy.

Cash conversion1.74×

Over 3 years, operating cash flow fully covered reported profit — earnings are backed by real cash.

Net margin trend9.4% → 36.3%

Margin has expanded by about 26.9 points — the business is getting more profitable.

Return on equity22.0%

Latest ROE of 22.0% — capital is generating a healthy return.

Growth qualityrev 42% · PAT 178%

Profit growth is broadly tracking revenue growth — the earnings trend looks operational rather than one-off.

Computed by MarketChacha from reported figures (SEC XBRL). Education, not a rating or recommendation.

What's expected next

Next quarter

Rev $2.5B · EPS 0.46

Est. earnings growth +85.8%

Next fiscal year

Rev $12.2B · EPS 2.33

Est. earnings growth +44.6%

Analyst consensus estimates — not the company's own guidance.

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Financials at a glance

Source: SEC XBRL

Annual

Quarterly · last 8

Revenue (FY2025)

$4.5B

Net margin

36.3%

ROE

22.0%

Revenue CAGR (2y)

+41.8%

Profit CAGR (2y)

+178.3%

EPS (FY2025)

0.63

Net profit (FY2025)

$1.6B

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Why it moved

Sep 3, 2026
Palantir Technologies rose after its subsidiary Palantir USG secured a US Army prime contractor agreement to manufacture and deliver eight TITAN ground-station systems. The company separately said former AIG chief executive Peter Zaffino would join as its global head of financial services.
source 1 ↗· confidence: high
Sep 1, 2026
PLTR fell 3.47% amid broader tech weakness driven by rising odds of a September Fed rate hike and elevated Treasury yields, compounded by profit-taking after its post-Q2 rally and news of ARK Invest selling $26M in shares.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗source 3 ↗· confidence: medium
Aug 5, 2026
Palantir surged after a blowout Q2: revenue rose about 93% year over year and US commercial revenue jumped roughly 149%, and the company raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to about $8.15 billion. It was the 10th straight quarter of guidance raises.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗· confidence: high
Jul 1, 2026
Palantir shares rose sharply after the company announced a new partnership with NVIDIA to deliver sovereign AI solutions for U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure, enabling secure on-prem AI deployments.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗source 3 ↗· confidence: high
Jun 26, 2026
Palantir shares rose today amid a rebound in software stocks after recent weakness and a 52-week low the prior day, with no specific company news or filing as the driver.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗· confidence: medium
Jun 25, 2026
Palantir fell with the broader AI/software sector in a selloff driven by high valuations, interest-rate pressure, and concerns that AI agents could erode traditional enterprise subscription models; no company-specific catalyst was reported.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗· confidence: low
Jun 22, 2026
Palantir shares fell with the broader software sector amid concerns over interest rates and AI potentially eroding traditional subscription models, plus reports of France planning to replace its tools with a domestic provider.
source 1 ↗source 2 ↗source 3 ↗· confidence: high

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Financials

Yearly

Period	Revenue	Net profit	EPS	Net margin	ROE
FY2025	$4.5B	$1.6B	0.63	36.3%	22.0%
FY2024	$2.9B	$462.2M	0.19	16.1%	9.2%
FY2023	$2.2B	$209.8M	0.09	9.4%	6.0%

Quarterly

Period	Revenue	Net profit	EPS	Net margin
2026Q2	$1.9B	$1.1B	0.41	54.9%
2026Q1	$1.6B	$870.5M	0.34	53.3%
2025Q3	$1.2B	$475.6M	0.18	40.3%
2025Q2	$1.0B	$326.7M	0.13	32.6%
2025Q1	$883.9M	$214.0M	0.08	24.2%
2024Q3	$725.5M	$143.5M	0.06	19.8%
2024Q2	$678.1M	$134.1M	0.06	19.8%
2024Q1	$634.3M	$105.5M	0.04	16.6%
2023Q3	$558.2M	$71.5M	0.03	12.8%
2023Q2	$533.3M	$28.1M	0.01	5.3%
2023Q1	$525.2M	$16.8M	0.01	3.2%

Figures as reported, in reporting currency. Source: SEC XBRL.

Filings & announcements

2026

10-Q filing
SEC8/4/2026
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC8/3/2026material
8-K — Shareholder vote results
SEC6/9/2026material
10-Q filing
SEC5/5/2026
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC5/4/2026material
10-K filing
SEC2/17/2026
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC2/2/2026material

2025

10-Q filing
SEC11/4/2025
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC11/3/2025material
10-Q filing
SEC8/5/2025
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC8/4/2025material

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