Palantir trades around $177 a share, up sharply from its 52-week low of $106.37 and well above both its 50-day ($141.58) and 200-day ($151.37) moving averages — a stock in a strong uptrend. On Investily's report card it scores 83 out of 100, a strong grade, but the story underneath the number is more uneven than Nvidia's or Apple's: extraordinary growth, an excellent balance sheet, and a valuation that's asking investors to trust that growth keeps compounding.
The Investily score: 83/100
Palantir's report card is a study in contrasts. Some pillars are near-perfect. Others are the weakest we see on any large-cap name:
- Revenue growth: exceptional
- Free cash flow growth: exceptional
- Book value growth: exceptional
- Debt, liquidity, and current ratio: near-perfect marks
- Return on capital employed: the weakest score on the card
- Profit margin: well below Nvidia's or Apple's
That combination — elite growth and balance sheet, weak returns on capital — is exactly what you'd expect from a company still early in converting scale into efficiency.
Growth: the standout number
Revenue is up 75.9% over the trailing year, well ahead of its own 37.0% three-year trailing growth rate — the business is accelerating, not slowing down. Operating income grew 354.8% over the trailing year. A number that large usually means operating income was small to begin with and is scaling off a low base — which is exactly the phase Palantir is in as it turns revenue growth into actual profit.
Profitability & returns
Net margin sits at 22.2% — solid, but a step below Nvidia's 52.4%. Return on capital employed over the trailing year is just 9.1%, by far the weakest figure in this analysis. That's the piece of Palantir's report card doing the most damage to the overall score: the company is growing fast, but the capital it has deployed isn't yet generating returns on par with its growth rate.
Balance sheet & ratios
This is Palantir's strongest pillar. Debt levels, liquidity, and current ratio all score at or near the top of Investily's range — the company is essentially debt-free and sitting on a large cash position relative to its liabilities. That gives it room to keep investing through a growth phase without the balance-sheet risk that usually accompanies hypergrowth stories.
Valuation: this is the number that matters
Palantir trades at roughly 147x earnings and 45.4x book value — by a wide margin the most expensive stock in this series. Its PEGY ratio comes in at 0.51, which is still under the 1.0 line that typically separates cheap from expensive, but it's more than double Nvidia's 0.22. In plain terms: the market is pricing in a lot of future growth, and there's meaningfully less room for error if that growth rate slows than there is with Nvidia.
The bottom line
Palantir's 83/100 score is real — the growth numbers and balance sheet are genuinely excellent. But it's a different kind of 83 than Apple's 74 or Nvidia's 96: the score is being carried by growth and safety, while returns on capital and valuation are the two pillars still working against it. This is a stock where the report card and the price are telling two different parts of the same story — worth reading both before deciding which one you believe.