Even Winning Investors Are Tired of PLTR Stock

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Quick Read

  • Palantir (PLTR) stock dropped 10% in five days as AI enthusiasm faded and insider selling increased.

  • Palantir trades at a trailing P/E of 1,740 and price-to-sales of 105x.

  • Only 4 of 25 analysts covering Palantir recommend buying at current levels.

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Even Winning Investors Are Tired of PLTR Stock

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Palantir (Nasdaq: PLTR | PLTR Price Prediction) stock has lost 10% in the last 5 days after fading AI enthusiasm and negativity surrounding insider sales have caught up with a premium valuation. There is a noticeable shift in retail investor sentiment on Reddit, X, and elsewhere as users shift from cautiously optimistic, to exhausted.

It’s not just Palantir. Other AI wunderkinds like Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Corweave (Nasdaq: CRWV) have fallen 25%, and 45% respectively in just the last month.

Reddit Turns Bearish on Palantir After The Runup

Clearly, the sand has shifted. Look no further than r/wallstreetbets on Reddit, where even though a trader ‘won’, they sound exhausted:

SPX Call/Puts / PLTR puts $8k-$235k YOLO
by
u/EstablishmentSea9172 in
wallstreetbets

The poster wrote: “If you do this for a living idk how, my heart rate was probably 120bpm all week and I probably lost 6 years of my life from stress.” Even those profiting from volatility are burned out. They’re making a decision to “leave the casino”.

The bears have a strong case.

  • Palantir trades at a trailing p/e of 1,740 and a p/s of 105x, multiples that dwarf even the most aggressive valuations
  • Of 25 analysts covering Palantir only 4 suggesting a buy at current levels
  • Insiders have been systematically selling shares through September, October, and November; no insider buying reported in recent months

Valuations Seem Impossible To Justify

With analyst price targets averaging $184.88 and institutional caution mounting, the near-term outlook favors consolidation over continuation of the rally. For investors watching PLTR, the key question is whether current multiples can be sustained or whether a more significant repricing is ahead. Right now, investors are voting with their brokerage accounts and saying “no way”.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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