Palantir Stock Soars: The AI Data Giant Defies Gravity in 2025

Palantir's shares are mooning—again—leaving Wall Street analysts scrambling to justify their earlier skepticism. Here's why the AI-powered data juggernaut is eating traditional analytics firms for breakfast.

The AI Gold Rush Has a New Prospector

While legacy firms still run SQL queries from 2010, Palantir's Gotham platform is vacuuming up classified contracts and commercial deals like a hedge fund at a crypto fire sale. No earnings? No problem—this is a 'story stock,' after all.

Short Sellers Get Steamrolled

Those betting against Karp & Co. are nursing double-digit losses today. The stock's 30% surge smells suspiciously like a gamma squeeze—but try telling that to retail traders piling in like it's Dogecoin 2.0.

What’s Next: $50 or Dust?

Either Palantir cracks the code on scalable AI monetization… or joins the graveyard of overhyped tech unicorns. One thing's certain: the volatility will be glorious. (And if it crashes? Well, there’s always metaverse real estate to pivot to.)

Palantir sales top $1 billion for the first time

Palantir's Q2 earnings showed the company is continuing to fire on all cylinders and delivered, for the first time ever, sales of over $1 billion. The company reported adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.16 on $1 billion in sales versus the consensus $0.14 per share on $940 million in sales.

CEO Alex Karp praised his company's performance and spoke of his vision for the future, calling it an "efficient revolution" and saying that his "goal is to get 10x revenue and have 3,600 people. We now have 4,100 [people]."

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The company also lifted its guidance for the full year from between $3.89 billion and $3.9 billion to between $4.142 billion and $4.15 billion.

Why Palantir stock's valuation still looks risky

The company's incredible and efficient growth is undeniable, but I continue to have serious doubts about its long-term prospects. Its trailing price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is nearly 700, an astronomical figure. Its forward P/E is nearly 280.-- which I also think is severely overpriced -- is the only other top-20 stock that trades with a forward P/E over 100.

The company would have to achieve near perfection for many years to justify this sort of multiple. I'm not sure it can, despite the Optimism of its CEO. I would stay away from Palantir stock.