☕️ Palantir: Let’s get real and have a straightforward conversation

Howdy! 👋 

I hope you’re off to a great start wherever this finds you. 

The Dow had one of its best days in a long time as did the rest of the markets, oil’s back at nearly $100 and inflation held at 3% according to the Ministry of Whitewash, errr… the Commerce Department. 

Chances are that you know enough about that already. 

That’s why I’d like to have a very straightforward conversation about what I believe is one of the single best, most undervalued companies on the planet. 

Palantir. 

The markets shot higher yesterday but Palantir dropped, prompting many investors to ask, “Why?” 

Short answer. 

His Excellency Michael “Big Shortimus Maximus” Burry struck again posting this little ditty. 

Here's the problem with that argument and why it shouldn’t change a thing imho. 

Anthropic and Palantir are not competitors.  

Heck, they don't even play the same sport. 

Anthropic builds AI models.  

Palantir builds the secure, mission-critical operating infrastructure that governments and enterprises use to actually deploy AI at scale — the kind of platform where the data is classified, the stakes are existential, and "cheaper and easier" isn't just irrelevant, it's disqualifying. 

Saying Anthropic is eating Palantir's lunch is like saying Netflix is eating Cisco's lunch because both use the internet. 🤦‍ 

I've been bullish on PLTR since it was trading in single digits and long before most of Wall Street took it seriously. Heck, long before they could spell it… “Pala-what” I got on more than one occasion. 

During that time… 

• Palantir’s revenue has increased by nearly 309.47% and $3.38 billion. 
• The customer count has increased by roughly 663.20%. 
• The government contract backlog has jumped ~91.30% to ~$4.4B.  
• The commercial business has grown by ~314% and $1.57B.  
• And finally, its AI platform – AIP – is being deployed around the world by some of the most demanding, security-conscious organizations on the planet in the highest stakes environments you can imagine. Examples include Operation Absolute Resolve, the precision U.S. military raid that pulled Nicolás Maduro out of Venezuela in January; Tampa General Hospital, where AIP has slashed patient placement time by 83% and cut the average sepsis stay by 30%; and HD Hyundai, one of the world's largest shipbuilders, which is now building ships roughly 30% faster after embedding Palantir across its entire Korean industrial empire — from refinery operations to unmanned naval vessels. 

None of that was in Burry’s post (which, btw, has since been deleted apparently).  

Here's what I want you to remember about Burry. 

He’s a smart guy who made an extraordinarily brilliant call nearly 20 years ago… followed by a trail of almosts, not quites, and oops-never-minds. He regularly deletes posts. He shut his fund down. This is the same Michael Burry who warned of the “mother of all crashes,” posted “Sell” and later admitted he was wrong, blasted the GameStop frenzy after profiting from it early, and repeatedly disappeared from social media after stirring panic. 

Now he’s warning (again) about the AI bubble while the companies actually building AI — with real revenue, real customers and so much demand they can't secure enough compute — are scaling like crazy. 

He openly “set up short” – meaning that he has a bet(s) in place that the stock declines so trash talking the stock means he benefits if it declines. I don’t know if that’s still true, but it begs the question. 

Watch this video with Jim Cramer and see if you don’t find a few parallels. 

So now what? 

That’s up to you, of course. 

It’s your money and your responsibility. 

My $0.02 is that stocks like Palantir come along once in a blue moon and your job as an investor is the same as mine… to find ‘em as early as you can then latch on for as long as you can. 

Personally, I hope I’m smart enough to buy more shares. 

And I am not alone. 

The patient money — sovereign funds, major institutions, long-term holders — sees exactly what I see in Palantir. A strategic AI and data platform with growing defense, enterprise and government contracts. One growing at double and triple digits.  

Institutional ownership is now 57.86% according to Nasdaq Official Institutional Holdings. 

Sure, Burry's bearish takes grab headlines and spooks the nervous money into panic selling, but that is also the opportunity here for smart investors. 

Keith's Investing Tip: Doom sells at moments in time while smart investors know that profits always scale over time. Three guesses which one is the better outcome and the first two don't count.  

Oh and one other thing today while we’re at it… 

A warning to all 2B iPhone users – your bank account could vanish in seconds 

I hadn’t planned on writing about this today but I’m gonna anyway. 

I heard yesterday that there’s a new scam out there designed to trick people into authorizing payments themselves (which makes it nearly impossible to recover stolen money once it’s sent). 

Criminals are apparently sending fake “Apple Pay fraud alerts” via text message to lure unsuspecting victims into believing that there’s a problem with their account, a purchase attempt, or something else prompting immediate action. (Read) 

DO NOT click on any link in the message and DO NOT call whatever number is included – I’ve already received several, in fact. The included links connect to scammers posing as official investigators who convince victims to withdraw or transfer money. 

Two things. 

Digital scams spread because they are designed to a) exploit your trust in Apple and b) act quickly via digital payments. 

The single most important defense is to slow things down. 

I want you to seriously consider signing up for a newly launched, first-of-its-kind program called the Ultimate Scam Protection created by my dear friend and financial expert extraordinaire, Suze Orman. 

And again to be clear, I do NOT receive one red cent for saying all this – protecting your wealth is simply that important. Fraud is on the rise, and stories like this are proof positive that it’s more dangerous than ever. 

If you’re on the fence or thinking this can’t happen to you, I get it. That’s what loads of folks think before they get taken. 

Please do yourself and your money a favor and tune into her podcast today to learn more. 

Then be sure you have the very best cybersecurity stocks you can buy in your portfolio. My fave has returned ~219.44% over the past 3 years while the S&P 500 has turned in ~64.96% over the same time period.  

Chaos – and cybercrime – create opportunity, albeit for all the wrong reasons. 

Keith’s Investing Tip: You can build all the wealth you want, but it won’t amount to a hill of beans if you don’t protect it. As always, I’ll be here if you need me, btw. 

Bottom Line 

My rule of the back page: The biggest, best and potentially most profitable stories are almost always found on the “back page” where very few people are reading along. 

You got this – I promise! 

Now and as always, let's MAKE it a great day. 

Keith 😀