Ifrah Financial Services Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR – Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 1,770 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $241,000.
Several other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Northern Trust Corp lifted its stake in Palantir Technologies by 0.3% during the first quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 19,553,438 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,650,310,000 after purchasing an additional 64,973 shares during the last quarter. Kingstone Capital Partners Texas LLC bought a new position in Palantir Technologies during the second quarter worth $2,543,888,000. Invesco Ltd. lifted its stake in Palantir Technologies by 20.3% in the first quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 17,746,956 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,497,843,000 after buying an additional 2,998,716 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its stake in Palantir Technologies by 38.5% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 15,180,154 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,281,205,000 after buying an additional 4,221,392 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. lifted its stake in Palantir Technologies by 4.4% in the first quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. now owns 13,614,399 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,149,055,000 after buying an additional 571,544 shares during the last quarter. 45.65% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
PLTR has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their target price on Palantir Technologies from $40.00 to $45.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, August 5th. Piper Sandler raised their target price on Palantir Technologies from $182.00 to $201.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Loop Capital raised their target price on Palantir Technologies from $178.00 to $180.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, August 5th. Citigroup reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $177.00 target price (up from $158.00) on shares of Palantir Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, August 5th. Finally, UBS Group reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $165.00 target price (up from $110.00) on shares of Palantir Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, August 5th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Palantir Technologies has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $141.28.
Insider Activity
In related news, insider Stephen Andrew Cohen sold 191,720 shares of Palantir Technologies stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $151.37, for a total transaction of $29,020,656.40. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 592 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $89,611.04. The trade was a 99.69% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, insider Ryan D. Taylor sold 36,048 shares of Palantir Technologies stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $158.35, for a total value of $5,708,200.80. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 307,470 shares in the company, valued at approximately $48,687,874.50. The trade was a 10.49% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 1,557,750 shares of company stock valued at $239,713,896 over the last quarter. Insiders own 9.23% of the company’s stock.
Palantir Technologies Stock Up 0.0%
Shares of NASDAQ PLTR opened at $178.15 on Friday. Palantir Technologies Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $40.90 and a fifty-two week high of $190.00. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $171.52 and its 200 day simple moving average is $142.87. The stock has a market cap of $422.63 billion, a P/E ratio of 593.85, a P/E/G ratio of 9.66 and a beta of 2.60.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August 4th. The company reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.14 by $0.02. Palantir Technologies had a net margin of 22.18% and a return on equity of 10.75%. The business had revenue of $1 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $939.29 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.09 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 48.0% on a year-over-year basis. Palantir Technologies has set its FY 2025 guidance at EPS. Q3 2025 guidance at EPS. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Palantir Technologies Inc. will post 0.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
About Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies, Inc engages in the business of building and deploying software platforms that serve as the central operating systems for its customers. It operates under the Commercial and Government segments. The Commercial segment focuses on customers working in non-government industries. The Government segment is involved in providing services to customers that are the United States government and non-United States government agencies.
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