Is Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE: PLTR) Worth Much? What Should Investors Do?

During the recent session, Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR)’s traded shares were 32.73 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.63. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $29.78, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.72% or $0.5. The 52-week high for the PLTR share is $29.83, that puts it down -0.17 from that peak though still a striking 54.06% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $13.68. The company’s market capitalization is $66.35B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 56.15 million shares, and the average trade volume was 43.81 million shares over the past three months.

Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.00. PLTR has a Sell rating from 3 analyst(s) out of 14 analysts who have looked at this stock. 5 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 6 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.09.

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Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) trade information

Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) registered a 1.72% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.72% in intraday trading to $29.78, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 20.39%, and it has moved by 7.76% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 95.31%. The short interest in Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) is 81.12 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.83 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $20, which implies a decrease of -48.9% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $4.5 and $38 respectively. As a result, PLTR is trading at a discount of -27.6% off the target high and 84.89% off the low.

Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Palantir Technologies Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) shares have gone up 21.52% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 36.00% against 14.10. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to grow 28.60% this quarter and then jump 12.50% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 23.60% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 701.26M as predicted by 12 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 11 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 741.72M by the end of current fiscal year.

While earnings are projected to return 40.89% in 2024.

PLTR Dividends

Palantir Technologies Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings 2024-Oct-31. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR)’s Major holders

Palantir Technologies Inc insiders own 5.17% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 42.03%, with the float percentage being 44.32%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1503.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-03-31, the company held over 196.83 million shares (or 9.166% of all shares), a total value of $4.53 billion in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 112.68 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 5.2473% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-03-31, these shares were valued at $2.59 billion.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund. Data provided on Mar 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 63.06 shares. This amounts to just over 2.94 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.87 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 43.3, or about 2.02% of the stock, which is worth about $1.29 billion.