{"id":76937,"date":"2026-08-03T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/this-quarter-was-otherworldly-palantir-earnings-surge-past-expectations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:57:41","slug":"this-quarter-was-otherworldly-palantir-earnings-surge-past-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/this-quarter-was-otherworldly-palantir-earnings-surge-past-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This quarter was otherworldly\u2019: Palantir earnings surge past expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company\u2019s role in Trump immigration agenda<\/p>\n<p>In a sea of companies reporting mixed financial results this quarter, Palantir stands out. Although Palantir was not immune to the AI jitters that caused industry-wide drops in share prices earlier this year, the AI and analytics company reported that its overall revenue grew 93% year over year to $1.94bn. That\u2019s well over the $1.8bn Wall Street expected Palantir to bring in for the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The glowing financials sparked a 10% surge in share prices in the immediate aftermath. Despite growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/15\/palantir-british-state-political-access-us-tech-firm-nhs\">opposition<\/a> to Palantir\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2025\/dec\/09\/palantir-the-worlds-scariest-company-podcast\">work<\/a> with various governments including the crucial role the company plays in the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/sep\/22\/ice-palantir-data\">immigration<\/a> agenda, Palantir\u2019s revenue from US government contracts grew 90% year over year to $809m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/03\/palantir-second-quarter-earnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company\u2019s role in Trump immigration agenda In a sea of companies reporting mixed financial results this quarter, Palantir stands out. Although Palantir was not immune to the AI jitters that caused industry-wide drops in share prices earlier this year, the AI and analytics &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018This quarter was otherworldly\u2019: Palantir earnings surge past expectations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/this-quarter-was-otherworldly-palantir-earnings-surge-past-expectations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018This quarter was otherworldly\u2019: Palantir earnings surge past expectations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}