Palantir (PLTR), an AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that allows companies and government agencies to gather and analyze tons of raw data, enabling the detection of hidden patterns within complex datasets, is about to reach a critical milestone by becoming the world's largest software pure play company.
$PLTR PALANTIR SURPASSES SAP IN MARKET CAPITALIZATION
We also hit $147.67 today, a new all time high.
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To wit, Palantir is currently trading at a market capitalization of $336 billion. For comparison, Frankfurt-listed SAP - a major developer of enterprise software solutions - closed today's trading at a market cap of just around 310.20 billion euros, or ~$360 billion. This means that Palantir just has to rise by ~$10 per share to clinch the title of the world's biggest software pure play company.
Bear in mind that Palantir's Rule of 40 score, which posits that a company is healthy if its growth rate plus profit margin either equals or exceeds 40 percent, stood at an eye-watering 83 percent in Q1 2025.
As we had noted at the time, Palantir delivered a trifecta of beats in the first quarter of 2025 by exceeding consensus expectations on its top-line and bottom-line metrics as well as raising its guidance, with Mizuho analyst taking pains to note that the company's management "raised its FY25 guidance by much more than the 1Q beat."
Overall, Palantir managed to grow its revenue by 39 percent year-over-year in Q1 to $883.9 million, handily beating Wall Street's consensus expectations pegged at ~36 percent.
During the quarter, the company closed 139 government deals with TCV of over $1 million. On the commercial side of things, Palantir inked a record $810 million worth of deals in Q1, corresponding to a year-over-year growth of 183 percent.
Meanwhile, Palantir is likely to move up to the Russell's top 200 large-cap names in the Russell 1000 index this Friday, as per a Reuters report.
Of course, not everything is sunshine and rainbows around Palantir. As we noted recently, the US DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) has now awarded OpenAI a $200 million, 1-year contract for prototype AI solutions. As noted by William Blair analyst Louie DiPalma, this marks OpenAI's first significant contract from the Department of Defense, where Palantir has usually reigned supreme. Also, on a per-year basis, this marks one of the largest DoD contracts ever. For context, Palantir’s largest overall contract - the Maven Smart System program - has an annual recurring revenue (ARR) run-rate of $210 million.
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