I overlooked this company for far too long! Join me for a [THREAD] about the business and my bull case. This is quite long so buckle up!
Since its IPO on 9/30/2020, Palantir rocketed close to 200%.
Now up about 150% trading around $25.
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2/ Overview
Palantir was founded in 2003 after the 9/11 tragedy to aid in the fight against terrorism.
Its software stack is offered to clients to help solve problems through formulating patterns that are embedded deep in mass amounts of differently structured data/data silos.
3/ Overview
This data is securely analyzed and interpreted within the Palantir software. Unlike other software platforms, Palantir notes it only allows employee access to the data specific to their need. They cannot look into what they're not supposed to see.
For your reference, this is how restrictive big insurance carriers can be when it comes to infertility benefits.
Their lack of utilization of the lifetime dollar maximum, or even the fact that they have a LDM, is wasting valuable time and $ for employers and couples.
"Employers are facing increasing competition to attract and retain talent as the labor market is at historically low unemployment levels. As a result, employers are enhancing their value proposition to employees by evaluating and providing..
"benefits that are most in demand. Family building solutions are an increasing area of focus for employees, and in turn, employers."
Guidance is low but I am holding shares. Low-code is proving to be an asset to many firms.
Solid revenue growth YoY
Margins look good also
Revenue retention is a bit choppy, but offering mix is moving away from professional services and more towards subscriptions. If they can hold customers and increase subscription as a % of rev we are in for good numbers next few yrs.
Quick Notes:
- Ticker $SNOW
- "Emerging growth company"
- "Reimagining data management for the cloud"
2/ Financials:
- Revenue Growth: +121% YoY
- Net Dollar Retention: 158%
- Customers: 3,117 total w/ 7 of the Fortune 10 and 146 of the Fortune 500 (9% and 26% of first half 2020 revenue, respecitively)
- $1M+ Customers: 56
3/ Daily Queries:
July 2020: Processed an avg of 507M daily quer across all customer accts, avg of 254M July 2019.
# of daily quer does not directly correlate with rev.
Rev is dependent upon the duration of such quer, type of resource used, and vol of data processed for quer"