Lifting expectations has a price and palantir technologies, so far the action reina of the S&P 500 in the United States, has suffered it in its own meats in the last hours. The data giant founded by Peter Thiel presented results with record revenues of 884 million dollars in the first fiscal quarter of 2025 (39% more than in 2024), but disappointed investors with what he expects from now on. And this even though it raised its annual income forecast to 3,902 million dollars with a request for orders of up to 139 contracts and an adjusted free cash flow that hopes to place in the fork between 1,600 and 1.8 billion dollars.
“The market was waiting for a beat and raise More blunt, “Goldman Sachs summarizes what happened to Palantir this Tuesday in which he already collapses of almost 12% in the stock market. And is that the guide presented for the next three months – with revenues of between 934 and 938 million dollars – barely remains 2% above estimates, a margin that does not compensate for runaway expectations of the market on the value.
“When an action rises 400% in 12 months, any less spectacular result than expected serves as an excuse to make benefits,” says Morgan Stanley analysts before adding that per Per (times that the benefit is collected in the action price) is already around 190 times more than quintuplica this same multiple of Microsoft (32 times) or that of NVIDIA (25 times).
In any case, this correction comes after a meteoric ascent: the action led so far the increases so far this year of S&P 500 with a 64% revaluationdriven by the fever of artificial intelligence and lucrative defense contracts of the company (the governmental business grew 45% in the last year).
He juicy NATO contract
In fact, on March 25 the American company signed a strategic agreement with NATO to display its advanced artificial intelligence platform, the Maven Smart Systemin the armed forces of the allied countries with the aim of transforming data management and decision making into military operations. For the current Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme headquarters of the Allied powers in Europe (Shape), the German Markus Laubenthal, this technology “It is not a luxury, but the oxygen of modern war.”
Specifically, the Palantir system for NATO He will be in charge of processing and analyzing the data from multiple drones, satellites, sensors and intelligence systems of the allied armies. Thus, among their abilities are:
- Real -time processing thanks to artificial intelligence language models.
- The predictive analysis to anticipate enemy movements and optimize defense.
- The simulation of tactical scenarios by generative, facilitating a possible response against an attack.
- The data unification of the 32 member countries on the same platform.
“Its execution is impeccable, but Until perfection it has a price“Summary from Mizuho. In fact, the price of the action is already 12% above what is contemplated by analysts who, according to the consensus of Bloomberg, They place the target price in the $ 96 environment.
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