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Wall Street Breakfast

Palantir powers past expectations

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Palantir pops as Q4 results, guidance blow past Wall Street's forecast. (00:13) California Governor Newsom floats $200M rebate plan for Tesla, EV industry. (01:55) Amazon to eliminate another 2,200 corporate jobs. (02:51)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.6

It's good to be with you on this Tuesday, February 3rd. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.9

Palantir is up 10% in pre-market action after reporting fourth quarter results and guidance that top Wall Street's estimates.

0:22.9

For the period ending December 31st, Palantir said it earned an adjusted 25 cents per share,

0:29.1

as revenue rose 69.2% year-over year-over-year to $1.4 billion. Included in that was a 93% rise in U.S. revenue. U.S. commercial revenue grew

0:41.6

137% year-over-year, while U.S. government revenue grew 66% year-over year.

0:49.1

Analysts expected the company to earn an adjusted $23 per share on $1.34 billion in revenue.

0:56.7

Julian Lynn, the investing group leader for Best of Breed Growth Stock, said the results were stunning.

1:02.8

He told Seeking Alpha via email that it appears that the company is benefiting from increasing

1:08.0

brand name momentum, as evidenced by the accelerating growth scene

1:12.2

among U.S. commercial enterprises. He goes on to say that time will tell if these strong results

1:18.0

are strong enough to justify the outlandish valuation, which represents a stunning 10 times premium

1:24.7

as compared to other large-cap enterprise software peers.

1:28.9

Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2026, Palantir expects revenue to be between

1:34.9

$1.532 and $1.536 billion, above the $1.33 billion estimate. For the full year, Palantir expects revenue to be between $7.182 billion and $7.198 billion,

1:50.5

above the consensus estimates of $6.28 billion. California is proposing a $200 million

1:57.8

electric vehicle incentive program.

2:05.9

Governor Gavin Newsom's office said Monday the incentives would apply only to first-time buyers and require participating manufacturers to offer matching incentives.

2:11.7

Bloomberg News reported citing a statement from Newsom's office that under the new program,

2:17.2

passenger vehicles priced at or below $55,000 would qualify for the rebate,

2:23.1

along with $80,000 for vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks, and $25,000 for use vehicles.

2:30.9

The cutoff would mean some of Tesla's most popular models as well as one variation of

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