Here Are the Facts You Need to Understand PLTR

We're taking a closer look at Palantir Technologies today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved -11.0% compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

  • Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community in the United States to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations.

  • Palantir Technologies has moved -70.4% over the last year compared to -19.8% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -50.6%

  • PLTR has an average analyst rating of hold and is -30.36% away from its mean target price of $10.13 per share

  • Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (Eps) is $-0.25

  • Palantir Technologies has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -28.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97

  • Its forward earnings per share (Eps) is $0.19 and its forward P/E ratio is 37.1

  • PLTR has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 6.17, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.

  • The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 6.2 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95

  • Palantir Technologies is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 26.5 and an average P/B of 5.57

  • Palantir Technologies has on average reported free cash flows of $-55,086,750.00 over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of -32.3%

  • PLTR's gross profit margins have averaged 71.3 % over the last four years, during which time they had a growth rate of 3.0 % and a coefficient of variability of 7.0 %.

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