Palantir’s Sovereign AI Boom Is Almost Entirely In America

The quarter that repriced the stock was made overwhelmingly at home, and the segment lines say so.

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) stock gained 39.5% in the week after its second-quarter report, climbing from $125.65 to $175.23 while the S&P 500 added 2.0%. The quarter was a record on almost every line. But a move that size is a bet on the forward number rather than the reported one, and Palantir’s raised forward number rests almost entirely on one country.

A Record Quarter And An Even Bigger Guide

Second-quarter revenue grew 93% year over year to $1.935 billion, the fastest rate Palantir has ever reported. A record growth rate is history by the time it prints. The guide is: management lifting its full-year 2026 revenue guidance midpoint to $8.154 billion, 82% growth and an 11-point increase on the prior full-year guide, the largest raise it has ever made. Adding eleven points of annual growth in one reporting cycle is what re-prices a stock, and the tape says this was specific to Palantir, with MSFT up 3.8% and GOOGL down 4.3% over the same week.

Over 81% Of Revenue Now Comes From America

The U.S. business now makes up over 81% of revenue and grew 115%, with U.S. commercial revenue up 149% to $764 million and U.S. government revenue up 90%. Commercial demand elsewhere is a different story: international commercial revenue reached $182 million, up 26% from a year earlier but only 2% from the prior three months.

The pitch behind the U.S. surge is AI sovereignty, data analytics software that leaves customers holding their own data, logic, and model weights instead of handing them to an outside lab. Management frames that as something America and the West need, yet the CEO concedes the growth Palantir gets from the European institutions it keeps serving is poor.

Palantir’s government work now runs deeper than software: adjusted gross margin was held to 86% partly because it took on cloud hosting for one of its government customers, a cost a pure software vendor would not normally carry.

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The Next Raise Is The Load-Bearing Number

At $175.23 the stock is still about 15% below its 52-week high of $207.18, so even a move this size only recovered ground. Because the guide did the repricing, the guide is what has to keep moving: the company now guides to U.S. commercial growth of at least 134% for full year 2026, and $13.1 billion of total remaining deal value still has to convert into revenue. The counterweight, on the government side at least, is management’s own headroom argument: Palantir’s Department of War revenue over the trailing twelve months is under 0.25% of the Pentagon’s budget, so the domestic engine has room to keep running. Whether the raises keep arriving is the test, so the companies whose forward guidance keeps climbing are worth tracking as a group.

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