If one had bought Palantir on Aug. 8, 2022, a $1,000 investment would be worth about $15,700 today. Three years ago, a dramatic pullback from the highs of the 2021 bull market left Palantir trading below $10 per share, the approximate level where it sold on its first day of trading on Sept. 30, 2020.

Palantir Technologies stock (NASDAQ: PLTR) has had a remarkable run this year, more than doubling since early January to trade at around $160 per share. The stock has been buoyed by surging interest in generative AI and a wave of new government contracts following the re-election of Donald Trump as U.

Palantir's growth continues to be led by U.S. commercial customers adopting its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). The company once again credited AIP's ontology, saying it is "pure understanding," and that without it, large language models (LLMs) cannot actually work in the real world