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Palantir Reports Q1 2025 Revenue Growth of 39% Y/Y, U.S. Revenue Growth of 55% Y/Y; Raises FY 2025 Revenue Guidance to 36% Y/Y Growth and U.S. Comm Revenue Guidance to 68% Y/Y, Crushing Consensus Expectations

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. “Our Rule of 40 score increased to 83% in the last quarter, once again breakin...

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DENVER: Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.

“Our Rule of 40 score increased to 83% in the last quarter, once again breaking the metric. We are in the middle of a tectonic shift in the adoption of our software, particularly in the U.S. where our revenue soared 55% year-over-year, while our U.S. commercial revenue expanded 71% year-over-year in the first quarter to surpass a one-billion-dollar annual run rate,” said Alexander C. Karp, co-founder and chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies. “We are delivering the operating system for the modern enterprise in the era of AI. Consequently, we are raising our full-year guidance for total revenue growth to 36% and our guidance for U.S. commercial revenue growth to 68%.”

Q1 2025 Highlights

  • U.S. revenue grew 55% year-over-year and 13% quarter-over-quarter to $628 million
    • U.S. commercial revenue grew 71% year-over-year and 19% quarter-over-quarter to $255 million
    • U.S. government revenue grew 45% year-over-year and 9% quarter-over-quarter to $373 million
  • Revenue grew 39% year-over-year and 7% quarter-over-quarter to $884 million
  • Closed 139 deals of at least $1 million, 51 deals of at least $5 million, and 31 deals of at least $10 million
  • Booked our highest quarter of U.S. commercial total contract value (“TCV”) of $810 million, up 183% year-over-year
  • U.S. commercial remaining deal value (“RDV”) of $2.32 billion, up 127% year-over-year and 30% quarter-over-quarter
  • Customer count grew 39% year-over-year and 8% quarter-over-quarter
  • GAAP income from operations of $176 million, representing a 20% margin
  • Adjusted income from operations of $391 million, representing a 44% margin
  • Rule of 40 score of 83%
  • GAAP net income of $214 million, representing a 24% margin
  • Cash from operations of $310 million, representing a 35% margin
  • Adjusted free cash flow of $370 million, representing a 42% margin
  • GAAP earnings per share (“EPS”) of $0.08
  • Adjusted EPS of $0.13
  • Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term U.S. Treasury securities of $5.4 billion

Q1 2025 Financial Summary

 

(Unaudited)

(Amounts in thousands, except percentages and per share amounts)

First Quarter

Amount

Revenue

 

$

883,855

 

Year-over-year growth

 

 

39

%

 

 

 

 

 

Amount

 

Margin

Income from Operations

$

176,048

 

 

20

%

Adjusted Income from Operations

$

390,710

 

 

 

44

%

Cash from Operations

$

310,263

 

 

 

35

%

Adjusted Free Cash Flow

$

370,377

 

 

 

42

%

Net Income Attributable to Common Stockholders

$

214,031

 

 

 

24

%

Adjusted Net Income Attributable to Common Stockholders

$

334,405

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

$

397,332

 

 

 

45

%

GAAP EPS, Diluted

$

0.08

 

 

 

Adjusted EPS, Diluted

$

0.13

 

 

 

Outlook

For Q2 2025, we expect:

  • Revenue of between $934 – $938 million.
  • Adjusted income from operations of between $401 – $405 million.

For full year 2025:

  • We are raising our revenue guidance to between $3.890 – $3.902 billion.
  • We are raising our U.S. commercial revenue guidance to in excess of $1.178 billion, representing a growth rate of at least 68%.
  • We are raising our adjusted income from operations guidance to between $1.711 – $1.723 billion.
  • We are raising our adjusted free cash flow guidance to between $1.6 – $1.8 billion.
  • And we continue to expect GAAP operating income and net income in each quarter of this year.

CEO Letter

Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s quarterly letter is available through Palantir’s website at https://www.palantir.com/newsroom/letters.

Earnings Webcast

A live public webcast will be held at 3:00 PM MT / 5:00 PM ET today to discuss the results for our first quarter ended March 31, 2025 and financial outlook. The webcast can be accessed by registering online at https://palantir.events/palantirearnings-q12025. A replay of the webcast will be available at https://investors.palantir.com following the event.

An investor presentation, including supplemental financial information and reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures to their nearest comparable GAAP measures, will be available through Palantir’s Investor Relations website at https://investors.palantir.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release and statements on our earnings webcast contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our financial outlook, product development and related timing, distribution, and pricing, expected benefits of and applications for our software platforms, business strategy, and plans (including strategy and plans relating to our Artificial Intelligence Platform (“AIP”), sales and marketing efforts, sales force, partnerships, and customers), investments in our business, market trends and market size, opportunities (including growth opportunities), our expectations regarding our existing and potential investments in, and commercial contracts with, various entities, our expectations regarding macroeconomic events, our expectations regarding our share repurchase program, and positioning. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date they were first issued and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as “guidance,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “should,” “believe,” “hope,” “target,” “project,” “plan,” “goals,” “estimate,” “potential,” “predict,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “could,” “intend,” “shall,” and variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. Our actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and other filings and reports that we may file from time to time with the SEC, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements: our ability to successfully execute our business and growth strategy; the sufficiency of our available funds to meet our liquidity needs; the demand for our platforms, product offerings, and services in general; our ability to increase our number of new customers and revenue generated from customers; our ability to realize some or all of the total contract value of customer contracts as revenue, including any contractual options available to customers or contractual periods that are subject to termination for convenience provisions; our long and unpredictable sales cycle; our ability to successfully execute our channel sales and other strategic initiatives with third parties; our ability to retain and expand our customer base; the fluctuation of our results of operations and our key business measures on a quarterly basis in future periods; the seasonality of our business; the implementation process for our platforms, which may be complex and lengthy; our ability to successfully develop and deploy new technologies to address the needs of our existing or prospective customers; our ability to make our platforms and product offerings easier to install, consume, and use; our ability to maintain and enhance our brand and reputation; our ability to maintain and enhance our culture as our business grows and as we pursue our business and financial goals; news or social media coverage about us or our leadership, including but not limited to coverage that presents, or relies on, inaccurate, misleading, incomplete, or otherwise damaging information; the impact of recent or future global macroeconomic and geopolitical events, such as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine, and Israel and broader Middle East conflicts, heightened interest rates, monetary policy changes, foreign currency fluctuations, or the imposition of tariffs or other impacts on trade relations on the business and operations of our company or of our existing or prospective customers and partners; issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence in our platforms; and any breach or access to our or customer or third-party data.

The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of the date of this press release. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our views to change. We undertake no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Additional Definitions

For the purpose of this press release, our earnings webcast, and our CEO’s letter:

  • Total contract value (“TCV”) is the total potential lifetime value of contracts entered into with, or awarded by, our customers at the time of contract execution, annual contract value (“ACV”) is defined as the total value of contracts closed in the period divided by the dollar-weighted average contract duration of those same contracts, and remaining deal value (“RDV”) is the total remaining value of contracts as of the end of the reporting period. Except as noted below, TCV, ACV, and RDV each presume the exercise of all contract options available to our customers and no termination of contracts. However, the majority of our contracts are subject to termination provisions, including for convenience, and there can be no guarantee that contracts are not terminated or that contract options will be exercised. Further, RDV may exclude all or some portion of the value of certain commercial contracts as a result of our ongoing assessments of customers’ financial condition, including the consideration of such customers’ ability and intention to pay, and whether such contracts continue to meet the criteria for revenue recognition, among other factors.
  • Remaining performance obligations (“RPO”) reflect the total values of contracts that have been entered into with, or awarded by, our customers, and represent non-cancelable contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes deferred revenue and, in certain instances, amounts that will be invoiced. We have elected the practical expedient, as permitted under Accounting Standards Codification 606—Revenue from Contracts with Customers, to not disclose remaining performance obligations for contracts with original terms of twelve months or less.
  • The term “strategic commercial contracts” is as defined in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
  • “Dollar-weighted duration basis” is the total value of contracts closed in the applicable period, divided by the dollar-weighted average contract duration of those same contracts.
  • The term “Rule of 40” refers to the sum of our revenue growth rate year-over-year and our adjusted operating margin for each of the periods presented.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release and the accompanying tables, as well as our earnings webcast, and our CEO’s letter, contain the non-GAAP financial measures adjusted income from operations, which excludes stock-based compensation and related employer payroll taxes; adjusted operating margin; adjusted free cash flow; adjusted free cash flow margin; adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“adjusted EBITDA”); adjusted EBITDA margin; adjusted net income attributable to common stockholders; and adjusted EPS, diluted.

We believe these non-GAAP financial measures and other metrics described in this press release help us evaluate our business, identify trends affecting Palantir’s business, formulate business plans and financial projections, and make strategic decisions. We exclude stock-based compensation, which is a non-cash expense, from these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe that excluding this item provides meaningful supplemental information regarding operational performance and provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management team. We exclude employer payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation as it is difficult to predict and outside of Palantir’s control.

Our definitions may differ from the definitions used by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited. In addition, other companies may not publish these or similar metrics. Further, these metrics have certain limitations as they do not include the impact of certain expenses that are reflected in our consolidated statements of operations. For example, adjusted free cash flow does not reflect our future contractual commitments or the total increase or decrease in our cash balances for a given period. Thus, our non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or in isolation from, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

We compensate for these limitations by providing a reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measure. We encourage investors and others to review our business, results of operations, and financial information in their entirety, not to rely on any single financial measure, and to view these non-GAAP measures in conjunction with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.

A reconciliation table of the most comparable GAAP financial measure to each non-GAAP financial measure used in this press release is included at the end of this release. A reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance measures to corresponding GAAP measures is not available on a forward-looking basis without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty regarding, and the potential variability of, reconciling items that may be incurred in the future, such as stock-based compensation and related employer payroll taxes, the effect of which may be significant.

Available Information

Palantir uses its Investor Relations website at https://investors.palantir.com as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor Palantir’s Investor Relations website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, and webcasts.

About Palantir Technologies Inc.

Foundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. Additional information is available at https://www.palantir.com.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended March 31,

 

 

2025

 

 

 

2024

 

Revenue

$

883,855

 

$

634,338

Cost of revenue (1)

 

172,970

 

 

 

116,256

 

Gross profit

 

710,885

 

 

 

518,082

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

Sales and marketing (1)

 

236,309

 

 

 

193,177

 

Research and development (1)

 

134,889

 

 

 

110,040

 

General and administrative (1)

 

163,639

 

 

 

133,984

 

Total operating expenses

 

534,837

 

 

 

437,201

 

Income from operations

 

176,048

 

 

 

80,881

 

Interest income

 

50,441

 

 

 

43,352

 

Other income (expense), net

 

(3,173

)

 

 

(13,507

)

Income before provision for income taxes

 

223,316

 

 

 

110,726

 

Provision for income taxes

 

5,599

 

 

 

4,655

 

Net income

 

217,717

 

 

 

106,071

 

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests

 

3,686

 

 

 

541

 

Net income attributable to common stockholders

$

214,031

 

 

$

105,530

 

Earnings per share attributable to common stockholders, basic

$

0.09

 

 

$

0.05

 

Earnings per share attributable to common stockholders, diluted

$

0.08

 

 

$

0.04

 

Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding used in computing earnings per share attributable to common stockholders, basic

 

2,348,679

 

 

 

2,213,545

 

Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding used in computing earnings per share attributable to common stockholders, diluted

 

2,552,818

 

 

 

2,400,107

 

(1)

 

Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows (in thousands):

 

Three Months Ended March 31,

 

 

2025

 

 

 

2024

 

Cost of revenue

$

15,016

 

$

10,416

Sales and marketing

 

52,513

 

 

 

42,156

 

Research and development

 

31,834

 

 

 

26,874

 

General and administrative

 

55,976

 

 

 

46,205

 

Total stock-based compensation

$

155,339

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