ANDREW «LEFT» GOES ANDREW «UP» AS PALANTIR CELEBRATES 5YRS ANNIVAndrew Left from "Citron Research" made his name writing shrewd short-seller reports on companies he deemed troublesome. In mid-August, Left called high-flying Palantir "overvalued".
Since that the stock turned down nearly 17% but resistently printed "Double Top" technical figure after. Now Left is excited about the bullish perspectives.
Palantir shares have jumped more than 1,700% since the data analytics company opened on the New York Stock Exchange 5 (five) years ago on Spetember 30, 2020.
During that time, revenue has roughly quadrupled as the company inked more deals with the U.S. government and benefitted from advancements in artificial intelligence.
Palantir’s steep valuation and reliance on government contracts have raised concerns.
The stock price has surged more than 1,700%, closing on Monday nearly at $180 for a market cap of over $430 billion. That puts it among the 20 most-valuable U.S. companies, and above tech stalwarts like Cisco and IBM.
Last year, Palantir joined the S&P 500, replacing American Airlines NASDAQ:AAL .
Quarterly revenue surpassed $1 billion for the first time last quarter, and is expected to reach $4.2 billion this year, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG, up almost sixfold from 2019. The company’s roster of customers grew from 125 in the first half of 2020 to 849 at the end of June. During that time, Palantir has added 1,500 full-time employees.
CEO Alex Karp, who founded the company in 2003 alongside notable investors like Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale, was exerting optimism on day one of Palantir’s life on the public market.
“We’ve reached a base where our company is very significant,” Karp, who holds a law degree from Stanford and PhD in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, told in an interview on listing day.
“Being in the public space will help us with our clients and help us grow.”
In a report in August 2025, Citron Research’s Andrew Left, a noted above ex-short-seller, called Palantir “detached from fundamentals and analysis.” When compared to OpenAI’s recent $500 billion valuation, he said Palantir should be priced at $40, or less than one-quarter of its current price, if it was assessed the same revenue multiple as the artificial intelligence startup.
“Karp and his team should be proud. But for investors, that’s where discipline kicks in,” Left wrote. “Comparison is the enemy of happiness, and when measured against true AI leaders, Palantir’s price already reflects success beyond its fundamentals.”
Karp, who doesn’t shy away from a dispute, recently told detractors to “exit” if they “don’t like the price.”
“We are going to be the most important software company in the world, and people will figure out what that’s valued over a long period of time,” Karp said on the day of the company’s NYSE debut.
For now, i.e. over the past 5 years since IPO debut, Palantir is among Top 3 S&P500 index performers, alltogether with Supermicro NASDAQ:SMCI (#1 rank) and Nvidia shares NVDA (#3 rank).
Over the past twelve months, Palantir stock has added nearly +350 %, and this is the 2nd return over all components, just after new kid on the block, Robinhood Markets NASDAQ:HOOD stock that entered S&P500 index earlier this year.
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