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Palantir's AI Platform Moves From Hype to Hyper-Execution
Palantir's AI Platform Moves From Hype to Hyper-Execution

Globe and Mail

time02-07-2025

  • Business
  • Globe and Mail

Palantir's AI Platform Moves From Hype to Hyper-Execution

Palantir Technologies PLTR, a pioneer in big data and artificial intelligence, is experiencing a sharp increase in enterprise momentum, driven by the rapid growth of its Artificial Intelligence Platform ('AIP'). The platform is swiftly becoming the company's most compelling growth driver within the enterprise landscape, transforming how organizations harness AI at scale. The adoption of AIP is accelerating at a rapid pace. In the first quarter of 2025, U.S. commercial revenues surged an impressive 71% year over year and rose 19% sequentially. This helped Palantir cross a significant threshold, achieving a $1 billion annual revenue run rate in this segment for the first time. The total contract value within U.S. commercial operations soared 239% from the prior-year level. Notably, the number of deals exceeding $1 million more than doubled year over year, signaling growing enterprise trust and larger platform footprints. Palantir's strategic deployment of AIP bootcamps — high-impact, intensive training sessions —has played a critical role in this acceleration. These programs are designed to help enterprise customers quickly and efficiently integrate AIP into their workflows. The results are compelling — clients are deploying production-grade AI solutions faster than ever, significantly shortening time-to-value and showcasing the platform's intuitive design and real-world readiness. At its core, AIP empowers organizations to embed autonomous AI agents across operations, compressing decision cycles and multiplying productivity, not in increments, but in orders of magnitude. While the broader market remains preoccupied with the evolution of AI model development, PLTR is carving out dominance on the deployment side, delivering plug-and-play, enterprise-ready solutions that produce measurable impact from day one. U.S. commercial operations have emerged as Palantir's most energized growth engine, and AIP works as the catalyst. Enterprise AI Integration Reaches a New Inflection Point Tech giants like Microsoft MSFT, Alphabet's GOOGL Google, and Salesforce CRM are deepening their commitment to generative AI. Microsoft continues to embed Copilot into its Office suite and expand AI capabilities through Azure, while also investing in robust AI governance frameworks. Google enhances its AI portfolio through Workspace and Vertex AI, and intensifies its focus on AI security and compliance. Meanwhile, Salesforce is integrating AI across its customer relationship management stack with Einstein Copilot and Data Cloud, while also innovating in personalized, real-time customer experiences. Despite the innovations from Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, Palantir remains a distinctive entity. Its strength lies in high-stakes, mission-critical environments, particularly defense, intelligence, and healthcare, where trust, security, and outcomes matter most. In a crowded field, Palantir stands apart, not by competing in volume or visibility, but by consistently delivering AI where it counts most. PLTR's Price Performance, Valuation, Estimates The stock has surged a whopping 73% year to date, significantly outperforming the industry 's 17.5% rally. From a valuation standpoint, PLTR trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 111.72, well above the industry's 7.22. It carries a Value Score of F. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for PLTR's earnings has been on the rise over the past 60 days. PLTR stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Zacks' Research Chief Names "Stock Most Likely to Double" Our team of experts has just released the 5 stocks with the greatest probability of gaining +100% or more in the coming months. Of those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian highlights the one stock set to climb highest. This top pick is a little-known satellite-based communications firm. Space is projected to become a trillion dollar industry, and this company's customer base is growing fast. Analysts have forecasted a major revenue breakout in 2025. Of course, all our elite picks aren't winners but this one could far surpass earlier Zacks' Stocks Set to Double like Hims & Hers Health, which shot up +209%. Free: See Our Top Stock And 4 Runners Up Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Free Stock Analysis Report Salesforce Inc. (CRM): Free Stock Analysis Report Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL): Free Stock Analysis Report Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR): Free Stock Analysis Report

Palantir's AIP Platform Sees Soaring Adoption Across Enterprises (Revised)
Palantir's AIP Platform Sees Soaring Adoption Across Enterprises (Revised)

Globe and Mail

time04-06-2025

  • Business
  • Globe and Mail

Palantir's AIP Platform Sees Soaring Adoption Across Enterprises (Revised)

Big data and AI specialist Palantir Technologies PLTR is gaining significant momentum with its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which is quickly emerging as the company's most powerful enterprise growth engine. AIP adoption is snowballing, pushing U.S. commercial revenue up 71% year over year and 19% sequentially in the first quarter of 2025, breaking the $1 billion annual run rate barrier for the first time. Total contract value in this segment skyrocketed 239% YoY, with deal sizes proliferating, more than double the number of $1 million contracts closed compared to last year. The company's AIP bootcamps, short, intensive training programs designed to help clients implement the platform, have surged in popularity. These sessions are enabling customers to deploy production-grade AI workflows quickly, drastically reducing time-to-value and highlighting AIP's usability. Palantir's AIP is enabling enterprises to deploy autonomous AI agents that drastically compress decision timelines and increase productivity not by percentages, but by multiples. Recently, Walgreens deployed AI-powered workflows to 4,000 stores in just eight months. At its recent Investor Day, AIG said its agentic AI ecosystem with Palantir, Anthropic, and AWS can accelerate the underwriting process up to 5X. While the market obsesses over AI model development, PLTR is dominating the demand side, delivering enterprise-ready solutions that generate quantified exceptionalism from day one. The U.S. commercial business now seems to be the company's most dynamic growth engine, and AIP is the accelerant. The Surge in Enterprise AI Integration Alphabet 's GOOGL Google, Microsoft MSFT, and Salesforce CRM are rapidly advancing generative AI. Microsoft integrates AI in Office via Copilot and expands Azure's AI. Google embeds AI in Workspace and enhances Vertex AI. Salesforce incorporates AI across its CRM, especially through Einstein Copilot and Data Cloud. Microsoft is also focusing on AI governance, while Google is strengthening AI security. Salesforce further refines dynamic customer experiences. Yet, Palantir stands apart, excelling in secure, high-stakes domains like defense and healthcare. Unlike Salesforce and Google's customer-facing tools, or Microsoft's broader approach, Palantir's AIP uniquely powers core operational decisions in ways Salesforce, Microsoft and Google have yet to match. PLTR's Price Performance, Valuation, Estimates The stock has surged a whopping 76% year to date, significantly outperforming the industry 's 10% rally. From a valuation standpoint, PLTR trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 71.64, well above the industry's 5.53. It carries a Value Score of F. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for PLTR's earnings has been on the rise over the past 30 days. PLTR stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. (We are reissuing this article to correct a mistake. The original article, issued on June 2, 2025, should no longer be relied upon.) 5 Stocks Set to Double Each was handpicked by a Zacks expert as the #1 favorite stock to gain +100% or more in 2024. While not all picks can be winners, previous recommendations have soared +143.0%, +175.9%, +498.3% and +673.0%. Most of the stocks in this report are flying under Wall Street radar, which provides a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor. Today, See These 5 Potential Home Runs >> Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Free Stock Analysis Report Salesforce Inc. (CRM): Free Stock Analysis Report Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL): Free Stock Analysis Report Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR): Free Stock Analysis Report

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