Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Sep 25, 2026
Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR)
A forensic read on Palantir Technologies Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
C · Mixed — selective
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
17.7
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
152.6
P / E (ttm)
22.0%
ROE
$460.7B
Market cap
56.2%
Revenue growth
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Palantir Technologies Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 17.7, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+67.7%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +67.7% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not by total assets, which is what the Forensic Screens card's own accrual row divides by. Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash. An accrual is a claim that still has to be collected or written down, so the gap resolves in a later period whichever way it goes. The build is led by receivables up +81% against revenue +56%. A cash-flow measure on the same base disagrees: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 11% of net operating assets, against an accruals ratio of 67.7%. The two are computed differently: the accruals ratio is the change in net operating assets over average net operating assets, while the cash-flow figure is net income less operating cash flow over that same average. Read them as two results, not one.
+5.7%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +12% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+5.7%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~5.7% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2023 has been diluted ~10%.
15% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 15% of revenue and 33% of free cash flow in FY2025 — about $0.27 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 5.7% a year, and the rate is falling. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$4.48B
Revenue Growth YoY+56.2%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+41.8%
Net Margin36.3%
Free Cash Flow$2.10B
Return on Equity22.0%
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