Lion Street Advisors LLC reduced its holdings in shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR – Free Report) by 5.8% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 14,837 shares of the company’s stock after selling 916 shares during the period. Lion Street Advisors LLC’s holdings in Palantir Technologies were worth $1,122,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in PLTR. Northwest Investment Counselors LLC acquired a new stake in Palantir Technologies during the 3rd quarter valued at $25,000. Prestige Wealth Management Group LLC increased its stake in shares of Palantir Technologies by 747.1% in the third quarter. Prestige Wealth Management Group LLC now owns 737 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 650 shares in the last quarter. First PREMIER Bank acquired a new stake in shares of Palantir Technologies in the fourth quarter valued at $28,000. Wolff Wiese Magana LLC raised its holdings in shares of Palantir Technologies by 230.4% in the fourth quarter. Wolff Wiese Magana LLC now owns 380 shares of the company’s stock valued at $29,000 after buying an additional 265 shares during the last quarter. Finally, R Squared Ltd bought a new stake in Palantir Technologies during the 4th quarter worth about $33,000. Institutional investors own 45.65% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. Mizuho boosted their target price on shares of Palantir Technologies from $44.00 to $80.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Cantor Fitzgerald increased their price objective on Palantir Technologies from $72.00 to $98.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Baird R W raised Palantir Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 12th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on Palantir Technologies from $16.00 to $41.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Morgan Stanley upgraded Palantir Technologies from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their price objective for the stock from $60.00 to $95.00 in a research report on Tuesday. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Palantir Technologies presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $64.89.
Insider Buying and Selling at Palantir Technologies
In other Palantir Technologies news, insider Shyam Sankar sold 30,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $66.59, for a total value of $1,997,700.00. Following the sale, the insider now owns 752,786 shares in the company, valued at approximately $50,128,019.74. The trade was a 3.83 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, insider Alexander C. Karp sold 4,500,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $55.03, for a total transaction of $247,635,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 6,432,258 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $353,967,157.74. This represents a 41.16 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 20,153,753 shares of company stock valued at $1,287,042,675. 12.93% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Palantir Technologies Trading Up 24.0 %
NASDAQ:PLTR opened at $103.83 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $236.53 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 519.18, a PEG ratio of 7.54 and a beta of 2.81. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $74.85 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $51.92. Palantir Technologies Inc. has a 1 year low of $16.48 and a 1 year high of $106.91.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 4th. The company reported $0.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.09 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $725.52 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $705.11 million. Palantir Technologies had a return on equity of 9.94% and a net margin of 18.01%. Palantir Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 30.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.03 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Palantir Technologies Inc. will post 0.19 earnings per share for the current year.
Palantir Technologies Company Profile
Palantir Technologies, Inc engages in the business of building and deploying software platforms that serve as the central operating systems for its customers. It operates under the Commercial and Government segments. The Commercial segment focuses on customers working in non-government industries. The Government segment is involved in providing services to customers that are the United States government and non-United States government agencies.
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