
The rapid business growth at data analysis company Palantir continues, driven primarily by US business.
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Palantir specializes in analyzing large amounts of data and supplies software for secret services and the military.
Compared to 2025, Palantir's quarterly profit this year is almost half higher overall. The company's US business is doing particularly well; the software is used by the Pentagon, among others.
The rapid business growth at the data analysis company Palantir, known for its work with US security authorities, continues. For the current quarter, Palantir forecast sales of around $2.65 billion. That would be an increase of around 90 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Most recently, sales increased by 96 percent year-on-year to $2.3 billion. The bottom line is that quarterly profit grew by 49 percent year-on-year to $1.13 billion.
Palantir specializes in analyzing large amounts of data and supplies, among other things, software that is used to analyze secret service and military information.
The current growth comes primarily from US business. At $1.94 billion, revenue in the domestic market in the last quarter was more than twice as high as the year before. Business with American government agencies grew by 96 percent to $953 million. Palantir software is used by the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon, among others - and, according to media reports, also in the Iran War. Business with companies in the USA increased by 148 percent to 984 million dollars.
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