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The software giant Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) has enjoyed one of the most successful tenures in the stock market among all of the companies that executed their initial public offerings (IPO) since the COVID-10 pangemic started.
Palantir has become the standard in enterprise AI because its ontology-based software lets customers derive true operational value from AI models. Palantir's revenue growth has accelerated in 12 straight quarters, and it beat consensus earnings estimates by an average of 14% in the last six quarters.
The artificial intelligence spending cycle is still in its early stages, according to UBS analysts, who see further opportunities for investors across technology, media and telecommunications as companies move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale. The UBS team has identified 14 “highest-conviction calls” across the TMT sectors, with many of the companies positioned to benefit from continued spending on AI infrastructure, cloud services, chips, networking equipment and enterprise software, MarketWatch reported.
Palantir's second-quarter revenue rose 93% year over year to about $1.9 billion. Management now targets about $8.15 billion of 2026 revenue, nearly double the goal it set for 2025 at this point last year.
NVIDIA NASDAQ: NVDA CEO Jensen Huang gave cybersecurity his seal of approval, calling it the next major growth market, aligning with a growing number of indicators suggesting an inflection ahead. In his view, like many others, AI automation drives an exponential increase in code to be scanned, and that's not counting the need to secure AI modeling facilities, the data AI runs on, or the impact of agents, which can hallucinate and run amok.
Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation ETF recently sold shares of Palantir and AMD and bought shares of Archer Aviation. Palantir and AMD are still bigger portfolio positions for Wood's flagship fund, but the increased bet on Archer is still notable.
Palantir just posted revenue growth above 90% year-over-year with a Rule of 40 score that has Wall Street rubbing its eyes, yet the five-year model tells a far more complicated story than the bull hype suggests.
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The artificial-intelligence spending cycle is still early, according to UBS analysts — and that affords investors a number of compelling opportunities across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.