Palant, always in the right place, at the right time -February 04, 2025 at 10:40
Palant, just like Nvidia, is one of the actions adored by technophiles. The group’s latest publication once again caused a market hysteria crisis, which propelled the action up 22% off session last night in Wall Street. What strengthen the legend of an action which has quintuplely in a year, once again pushing the reasonable limits of valuation. But who is concerned?
The consulting group led by Peter Thiel and Alexander Karp (the man in purple in illustration) is built on the promise of his ability to overcome all the difficulties in responding to the complex problems of his customers. It’s a bit vague, but it seems to work. In good strategists, the leaders also quickly integrated AI into their range of offers. If you want a general overview of Palantant, read this paper. If you want an overview of what should not be done with Palantir, that’s it.
To return to the news, the group published an annual turnover greater than Wall Street last night on Monday evening and guided on income of around 3.75 billion dollars this year. There too, it’s better than expected. Palantant is paid a little less than 400 times the 2024 results (based on a capitalization of $ 191 billion, excluding increases expected at the opening today). By way of comparison, the medium per medium of the ETF Investo qqq, the largest ETF which follows the Nasdaq, was 40.3 at the end of 2024. Two years ($ 938 million for 2026, according to the average of the expectations of analysts compiled by S&P Capital IQ). It is very generous, but that does not prevent investors from being literally hypnotized by the group.
It is not uncommon to see the title Palantir jump like a cap of champagne. This is even regularly the case during results publications. To illustrate this, we have used the Zonebourse graphics tool which makes it possible to include the news elements, in this case the results of results. Of the last nine quarterly publications, seven have given rise to a lively increase:
An AI offer acclaimed
Palantant communicates a lot on its AIP solution, an artificial intelligence platform which makes it possible to analyze, test and debug the code and to assess the scenarios linked to the AI. AI of AI in short. And it works, because customers are jostling at the gate: the fourth quarter was marked by a marked acceleration in the number of new customers. The market loves, of course.
During the conference presenting the results which took place last night, management strongly insisted on its ability to offer concrete to its customers. It is also the trademark of Palantir. “”Most organizations are currently blocked on the bad side of the gulf that widens, working on their plans at 2, 5 and 10 years old, which become obsolete a few days later, without ever taking action, but not Palant or our Customer base that is growing quickly … With Palantir, as soon as work begins, we offer our customers a real quantified exceptionalism“, Ryan Taylor was delighted, one of the high ranks of the company.
The conference content also confirms a major element for the company investment scenario: the interests of Palantir are completely aligned with those of the new American administration. It is far from negligible for a company that achieves more than 40% of its income with a public sector in the process of having passed the iron straw by the Doge d’Elon Musk.