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3 Reasons to Buy Palantir Like There's No Tomorrow
Manali Pradhan, The Motley Fool
Fri, Jul 5, 2024, 7:15 AM EDT
Shares of data mining and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) have popped by an impressive 47% so far in 2024.
Palantir surpassed consensus revenue estimates and met the adjusted earnings-per-share estimates in the first quarter of 2024. Despite blockbuster numbers, the stock tanked by nearly 15% after releasing this quarterly result as investors were disappointed with the company's conservative revenue guidance for full-year fiscal 2024.
Since then, Palantir stock has gained back all of its losses, mainly driven by some recent profit-taking in semiconductor/AI stocks and market rotation from semiconductor stocks to software stocks. However, there is still a lot to like in this software-as-a-service (SaaS) player, known for its exceptional ability to mine mounds of government and enterprise data for actionable insights.
Here are three reasons investors should pick up a stake in Palantir now.
1. Unleashing the power of AI
Since its launch, Palantir's large language model-powered Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) has witnessed solid customer adoption. Leveraging data analytics and machine learning, AIP helps enterprises move "beyond chat" and deploy AI solutions effectively to drive real business value.
Palantir's AIP applies ontology and data integration technologies to enable customers to deploy AI solutions, even with messy underlying data. AIP helps convert unstructured data including emails, Slack messages, PDFs, comments, audio, and images into structured actions and outputs. This is in contrast to competitors who claim that only 10% of a customers' data is AI-ready.
Palantir's boot camp-based, go-to-market strategy is also proving a success. More than 900 organizations had participated in the bootcamps by the end of the first quarter. The company has also rolled out Build with AIP (tutorials and reference implementations) to enable customers to effectively use AIP for building AI solutions. Subsequently, AIP is helping Palantir with new customer acquisitions as well as expansions in existing customers.
Strong U.S. commercial business, and reacceleration in government business
The U.S. commercial business was undoubtedly the star performer for Palantir in the first quarter, growing revenue by 68% year over year, excluding strategic investments. This trend is expected to continue in 2024, driven mainly by the increasing adoption of the company's AIP platform. Palantir noted a robust 69% year-over-year U.S. commercial customer count in the first quarter. Not surprisingly, the company has increased its full-year fiscal 2024 growth outlook for this customer cohort from the previous estimate of 40% to 45%.
Palantir's U.S. government business also demonstrated strength, with revenue growing 8% year over year in the first quarter, an acceleration from 3% year-over-year growth in the previous quarter. The company secured over $178 million from the U.S. Army for a project under the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (or TITAN) program, enabling it to help the army detect enemy targets.
The project has made the company the first software company to be awarded a prime contract (direct contract with the government agency) for a hardware production project. By positioning itself as a "software prime," Palantir may witness even more opportunities in the U.S. defense sector.
Government business involves significant vetting of vendors and is inherently sticky. Hence, although this business is growing more slowly than the commercial business, it provides a stable revenue base for Palantir. Furthermore, in the current era of geopolitical tensions, Palantir's government-focused software solutions have become even more relevant and may see robust growth in the coming years.
Impressive financials
Investor reaction to Palantir's fiscal 2024 revenue guidance seems short-sighted since the company's top-line growth will likely be lumpy in the early stages of the ongoing AI transformation. The company's financial performance will become increasingly more predictable, with the advancement and adoption of AI technologies worldwide.
Nevertheless, Palantir's profitability has been improving at a steady pace. The company recorded a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) net income of $106 million in the first quarter, marking its sixth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability. The company also reported a GAAP operating income of $81 million and an adjusted operating margin of 36%. Palantir's Rule of 40 score (an indicator of the company's revenue and profit performance) also rose from 54 in the fourth quarter of 2023 to 57 in the first quarter of 2024.
Palantir is also generating cash at a robust pace. The company reported $130 million in cash from operations and $149 million in adjusted free cash flow in the first quarter. It ended the first quarter with $3.9 billion in cash, a resource that gives it sufficient financial flexibility to invest in growth initiatives.
Trading at 24 times trailing-12-month sales, Palantir stock is not cheap. However, the premium valuation seems justified considering the mission-critical nature of its software in multiple government operations and the rapidly expanding commercial business. Hence, it makes sense to invest in this high-flying stock now.
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Oleblue
7 days ago
Momentum Investor Praises Palantir As 'AI Halo' Play, Highlights Datadog As Software 'Bottoming Process' Sets In
Virtus Investment Partners‘ Joe Terranova is eyeing a couple of big data companies as the artificial intelligence (AI) story begins to tilt toward software.
What To Know: BofA Securities just added Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) to its top 10 best U.S. ideas list for the third quarter. Monday on CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report,” Terranova explained why he remains bullish.
“It’s become a popular name when you are thinking about AI and the AI halo. They’re clearly participating,” Terranova said.
Palantir has been a beneficiary of the AI boom, but below the highs it set in early 2021. BofA obviously sees more room for Palantir to run in the near term and Terranova agrees.
Palantir has had significant exposure to government contracts for a long time. Growth in the commercial side of the business is really starting to boom, Terranova said.
AI is playing a big role in that growth, he added.
“You are seeing the growth in revenue attributable to [AI] beginning to build. It will further build in the upcoming quarters. Palantir has really been a strong momentum name in a software environment that’s been somewhat experiencing friction,” Terranova said.
Many expect AI software names to catch up to some of the hardware names that have benefitted the most from the AI race. Terranova suggested that he’s positioning for the move by adding Datadog Inc (NASDAQ:DDOG) to the portfolio.
Datadog is in a critical area of AI that many are not focused on yet: security. The company offers cloud-based security monitoring for applications, which will be “incredibly important” in terms of usage from the enterprise community, Terranova said.
“I think a lot of people dismissed software,” he adds. “I get the premise that AI disrupts a lot of the existing product in the software business itself … but I also think you have to be aware that there might be a bottoming process that’s unfolding for software.”
Terranova told CNBC that Datadog is also starting to break out above critical levels from a technical perspective. Expect momentum to stay for a while, he said,
https://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/long-ideas/24/07/39582335/momentum-investor-praises-palantir-as-ai-halo-play-highlights-datadog-as-software-bottom
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2 weeks ago
Voyager Space and Palantir Announce Strategic Partnership Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Drive Innovation in Space Technology
Jun 27, 2024, 07:00 ET
DENVER, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration, today announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:PLTR), a leading builder of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for the modern enterprise. Together, Voyager and Palantir will rapidly advance the space and defense technology sectors by integrating Palantir's cutting-edge AI tools across the Voyager enterprise.
This partnership solidifies Voyager's commitment to leading the space industry in AI-driven innovation, ensuring robust and agile solutions for defense and commercial applications. Expanding on a previous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) announced earlier this year, Voyager will now fully integrate Palantir's AI capabilities into their defense solutions, benefiting from Palantir's deep expertise delivering for the Department of Defense (DoD). This collaboration enhances communications, military research and development, as well as intelligence and space research, making space more accessible to the defense community and vice versa.
"We are thrilled to partner with Palantir, a company that shares our vision for leveraging technology to drive transformative change," said Matt Kuta, President, Voyager Space. "By embracing Palantir's game-changing AI across our operations, we not only enhance Voyager's defense-tech capabilities, but also set a new standard for the broader aerospace industry. This collaboration will enable us to deliver unprecedented value and innovation to our customers and stakeholders."
Voyager will leverage Palantir Foundry and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to drive value in its in-house payload management system for International Space Station customers today, as well as onboard the Starlab commercial space station in the future. It is also building a prototype "Customer Hub" for its customers to submit payload requests via Palantir's software.
The partnership also bolsters Voyager's defense segment, offering the opportunity to use AI to process and optimize flight and testing data on solid fuel thrusters to ensure smooth flight. Palantir's software can also help power increased real time signal data processing and more precise targeting for Voyager's optical communications systems for DoD customers.
"We look forward to deepening our collaboration with Voyager Space," said Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir. "Palantir is committed to building transformative AI solutions across every domain. Our work with Voyager enables us to continue expanding the boundaries of these capabilities to better meet the context of our customer's mission. Together, we will drive the innovation our nation needs to create resilient infrastructure, scale production, and uphold national security."
Today's news builds on the recently announced partnership between Starlab Space and Palantir. As Voyager continues to embrace the benefits of AI alongside Palantir, both companies are poised to lead the defense and space industry into a new era of innovation.
About Voyager Space
Voyager Space is dedicated to building a better future for humanity in space and on Earth. With over 35 years of spaceflight heritage and over 2,000 successful missions, Voyager is powering the commercial space revolution. Voyager delivers exploration, technology, and defense solutions to a global customer base that includes civil and national security agencies, commercial companies, academic and research institutions, and more.
About Palantir Technologies Inc.
Palantir builds category-leading software that empowers organizations to create and govern artificial intelligence across public and private networks. Since 2003, we have helped some of the world's most important organizations solve their most difficult problems. Foundational Software of Tomorrow. Delivered Today. Additional information is available at https://www.palantir.com.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical fact, including those with respect to Voyager Space, Inc.'s (the "Company's") mission statement and growth strategy, are "forward-looking statements." Although the Company's management believes that such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee that such expectations are, or will be, correct. These forward-looking statements involve many risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from those anticipated. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, general economic conditions and conditions affecting the industries in which the Company operates; the uncertainty of regulatory requirements and approvals; and the ability to obtain necessary financing on acceptable terms or at all. Readers should not place any undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve these known and unknown uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects the Company's current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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DiscoverGold
2 weeks ago
Why Palantir (PLTR) Shares Are Getting Obliterated Today
By: Yahoo | June 21, 2024
What Happened:
Shares of data-mining and analytics company Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) fell 5.7% in the morning session after Monness, Crespi, Hardt analyst Brian White downgraded the stock's rating from Neutral to Sell and assigned a $20 price target. The price target represents a potential 15% decline from where shares traded when the downgrade was announced. The analyst called out "worries in the software space." adding that earnings results from some of the large enterprise software companies that recently reported were "largely downbeat." In addition, the analyst noted that the anticipated gains from Generative AI had been a "revenue illusion" during the year.
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What is the market telling us:
Palantir's shares are very volatile and over the last year have had 35 moves greater than 5%. In context of that, today's move is indicating the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 5 months ago, when the stock gained 28.5% on the news that the company reported fourth-quarter results with expectations for revenue growth to accelerate in the next fiscal year, highlighting growing demand for its new artificial intelligence platform (AIP), which was launched in 2023.
It was also encouraging to learn that the company has improved the time it takes to deploy AIP and integrate with client's data from "weeks and months to as little as a few hours." The icing on the cake was adjusted operating income well above expectations, showing that the company is not sacrificing profits for the higher topline growth. Also, its revenue, billings, and free cash flow exceeded Wall Street's expectations in the quarter, and its gross margin improved. Notably, the US commercial business significantly contributed to the solid performance during the quarter, as revenue in the segment grew 70% year on year and 12% sequentially.
Looking ahead, the company expects the US commercial business to grow at least 40% in 2024. A minor negative was that revenue guidance for the next quarter missed analysts' expectations. Overall, this was a very solid quarter for Palantir.
Palantir is up 47% since the beginning of the year, and at $24.36 per share it is trading close to its 52-week high of $26.46 from March 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Palantir's shares at the IPO in September 2020 would now be looking at an investment worth $2,565.
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Oleblue
3 weeks ago
RPA-H enters $19M contract with Palantir for artificial intelligence, data software
Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform and Foundry software will support the young health research agency’s data infrastructure and track the progress of its programs.
By Madison Alder
June 20, 2024
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will use Palantir’s AI and data software to support its data infrastructure and track the progress of its research programs under a $19 million contract being announced Thursday.
Under the two-year contract, ARPA-H will deploy Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP) and Foundry software to “rapidly collect, synthesize, analyze, and make decisions from a range of data sources,” according to a release shared with FedScoop ahead of the announcement. Those tools will be used with a variety of agency operations, including with performance data related to ARPA-H’s programs to help the agency track progress and make decisions.
Alastair Thomson, the acting director of data innovation at ARPA-H, told FedScoop that when it comes to internal operations, the agency’s goal “is to be very, very data driven.” That extends to the design of the agency’s programs and how they’re monitored.
“We want to find what is revolutionary, not evolutionary, and so to do that, we’ve got to understand really what is the state of the art in a particular field?” Thomson said. “And so a lot of that comes from data.”
The contract comes as ARPA-H is still building its infrastructure. The Department of Health and Human Services agency was established in 2022 to support ambitious and innovative research in health and biomedical fields. Its programs so far include strengthening hospital infrastructure in the face of cyberattacks, developing technologies to remove cancerous tumors, and building a mobile health program powered by electric vehicles.
“We’re a new agency. We don’t have a lot of systems in place,” Thomson said. “Palantir is going to be a big part of implementing those systems that are really tailored in a way that makes sense to our unique mission.”
Though Thomson also noted an advantage of being a new agency from an infrastructure standpoint is that “we’re not just talking about cloud-first — we’re cloud-only.” Already Palantir has deployed a cloud-based instance of its data platform at the agency. An appeal of the technology to ARPA-H, Thomson said, was how quickly they could get it up and running.
Hirsh Jain, the head of public health and senior vice president of federal at Palantir, told FedScoop that the company is excited about bringing software systems to ARPA-H to help the agency “run their own core operations more effectively.”
ARPA-H is a “really unprecedented opportunity to drive research and development in health care in the private sector in a way that has the potential to be so instrumental to achieving the next generation of health outcomes,” Jain said.
What Palantir’s software is “going to do is provide a lot of the core infrastructure necessary to run those programs, make those R&D investments, [and] allocate those dollars as effectively as possible,” Jain said.
Foundry is a software that’s aimed at data integration and helping organizations pull existing data sources together and map it into what Palantir calls the “ontology,” which is a way for an organization to see its operations, Jain explained. AIP, which launched last year, is a way for organizations “to use large language models on top of their existing data that they already have access to,” he said.
When it comes to monitoring its programs, Thomson said the software will help the agency inform decisions with data. Each of the agency’s programs have metrics, milestones and deliverables that the agency “aggressively” monitors, he said, and something ARPA-H doesn’t want to do is continue trying something that isn’t working.
“Making good data-driven decisions about when to stop and pivot and try a different approach is really, really critical to us,” Thomson said.
Ultimately, some of the insights from those platforms are intended to be made public. “Our intent is to leverage the platform to produce reports and analytics and things that can be made available to the public as time goes on, so they can see, yes, we are being effective,” Thomson said.
Another area the agency plans to use the AI capabilities of the software for is analyzing the scientific context that a particular program is operating by synthesizing related publications and other sources of knowledge related to that area.
“There are things that we can very quickly assess using AI and get a perspective on it,” Thomson said. He added that reviewing publications and other information is still part of the process, but AI helps to “get a more complete perspective on things because it’s able to have a much broader view.”
In addition to providing the softwares, Palantir will also provide training and data analytics for operating staff at the agency. Thomson said ARPA-H wants to create a culture of data within the agency and the training will help staff make use of the data.
“You can’t be a learning organization without understanding how to understand your data,” he said, adding “training is an important part for us.”
Written by Madison Alder
Madison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government technology. Her reporting has included tracking government uses of artificial intelligence and monitoring changes in federal contracting. She’s broadly interested in issues involving health, law, and data. Before joining FedScoop, Madison was a reporter at Bloomberg Law where she covered several beats, including the federal judiciary, health policy, and employee benefits. A west-coaster at heart, Madison is originally from Seattle and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
https://fedscoop.com/arpah-enters-data-ai-contract-with-palantir/#:~:text=The%20Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency,million%20contract%20being%20announced%20Thursday.
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1 month ago
Palantir to Unveil New Customers and Product Announcements at AIPCon
June 05, 2024 04:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced that nearly 70 customers will showcase their work in Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) at its fourth AIPCon in 12 months. The conference will be live streamed on Thursday, June 6, 2024 on Palantir’s YouTube channel.
New customers – such as United Airlines, Nebraska Medicine, AARP, Lear, Wendy’s QSCC, Edgescale AI, and more – will be showcasing how they use Palantir software. Representatives from organizations with expanded partnerships, such as Tampa General Hospital, will also be speaking.
These customers and others have been going from prototype to production-grade AI via Palantir’s novel AIP Bootcamp initiative. Since its launch, more than 1300 AIP Bootcamps have been completed in the United States and around the world, including nearly 500 additional ones from the last AIPCon in March. Following the release of Build with AIP, customers at AIPCon will unveil the products they’ve built, and guide other customers through building similar workflows on AIP.
Additionally, Palantir will be announcing the Palantir Developer Community at AIPCon, which will bring together global users of Foundry and AIP in a dedicated public forum for the first time in Palantir history. Developers can ask and answer questions, make product suggestions, become early adopters for new features, and more. To join the community, please visit community.palantir.com.
AIPCon will be accessible via live stream on Thursday, June 6, 2024. For questions about joining the waitlist, please email aipcon-2024@palantir.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements may relate to, but are not limited to, Palantir’s expectations regarding the expected benefits of our software platforms. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time those statements are made and were based on current expectations as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management as of that time with respect to future events. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties include our ability to meet the unique needs of our customer; the failure of our platforms to satisfy our customer or perform as desired; the frequency or severity of any software and implementation errors; and our platforms’ reliability. Additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
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