Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR.US) 2025年第三季度业绩电话会
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Palantir Technologies achieved a 63% year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 2025, driven by US commercial segment expansion and AI product launches. The company emphasized its unique technology stack, customer value creation, and plans to enhance AI capabilities and support defense efforts, concluding with positive guidance for Q4 and FY 2025.
会议速览
Palantir's Q3 2025 Earnings Call Highlights and Forward-Looking StatementsAnnouncement of Q3 2025 financial results with forward-looking statements on future performance, risks, and non-GAAP measures. Includes details on call participants and reference to SEC filings and investor materials.
Record-Breaking Q3: Palantir's AI Platform Leads Enterprise TransformationPalantir's third quarter exceeded expectations with a 63% year-over-year revenue growth, driven by strong performance in the US commercial market, where it secured $2.8 billion in TCV, including 204 deals over $1 million. The company emphasizes its role in delivering transformational AI impact, with a focus on compounding AI leverage for customers, as seen in partnerships with leading industries and government sectors, reinforcing its position as a leader in enterprise AI solutions.
Revolutionizing Enterprise AI: Ontology-Driven Solutions and AIP AdvancementsAIP's advancements in ontology and AI applications, including AI FDE and AI Hive Mind, are transforming enterprise operations by enhancing productivity, solving complex problems, and enabling rapid development of mobile and embedded solutions. The platform's role in centralizing data for the US Army and its impact on manufacturing and re-industrialization highlight its strategic importance in driving business evolution and innovation.
Empowering American Workers: Tech Fellowship Drives Reindustrialization and ProsperityAmerican Tech Fellowship showcases builders without formal CS backgrounds innovating in AI for reindustrialization, inspiring customer demand for similar programs, highlighted by Lear's earnings call inclusion.
Record-Breaking Q3 Performance with 63% Revenue Growth and Highest Rule of 40 ScoreAnnounced Q3 results with a record Rule of 40 score of 114, 63% revenue growth, and 51% adjusted operating margin. Q4 revenue guidance set at $1.329 billion, a 13% q-o-q increase. Full-year 2025 revenue guidance raised to $4.398 billion, reflecting 53% y-o-y growth. US commercial revenue forecasted to exceed $1.433 billion, a 104% y-o-y increase. Generated $2 billion in adjusted free cash flow for the first time in FY.
Record-Breaking Q3: 2.8B TCV Bookings, 45% Customer Growth, & Accelerated AI RevenueThe company achieved its highest quarterly TCV bookings at 2.8 billion, a 151% increase YoY, with customer count growing 45% YoY. Commercial revenue surged 73% YoY, driven by AI production use cases, while government revenue rose 55% YoY. Net dollar retention reached 134%, up 600 basis points, reflecting strong existing customer expansions and new acquisitions. Total remaining deal value increased 91% YoY to 8.6 billion.
Q3 Financials Highlight Growth, Margin Expansion, and Record Cash FlowThe company reported robust Q3 performance with 84% adjusted gross margin, 51% adjusted operating margin, and a record $2B in trailing 12-month adjusted free cash flow. Revenue guidance for Q4 2025 is between $1.327B and $1.331B, with full-year 2025 revenue raised to between $4.396B and $4.40B. Adjusted income from operations guidance is $2.151B to $2.155B, and adjusted free cash flow guidance is $1.9B to $2.1B, reflecting continued investment in AIP and technical talent while achieving sustained gap profitability.
Palantir's Unprecedented Growth: A Model for Value Creation and Worker Empowerment in the AI EraThe dialogue highlights extraordinary growth and cash flow metrics, emphasizing Palantir's unique approach to aligning with customer value creation, empowering American workers, and leveraging AI for competitive advantage, while contrasting Europe's stagnation with America's success.
Palantir's Unique Value Proposition: Solving Complex Problems with Tailored Software SolutionsThe dialogue emphasizes Palantir's commitment to developing software that effectively addresses real-world challenges, differentiating it through a focus on solving problems rather than just selling software. This approach has led to the creation of a comprehensive software stack, including innovations like AI Hive Mind, by tackling the most complex and valuable parts of enterprise operations. The company's strategy of positioning itself at the forefront of unsolvable problems by black-box solutions ensures continuous relevance and success.
Accelerated Sales Cycles & Enterprise TransformationDiscusses significant shifts in customer expectations and sales cycles, emphasizing rapid enterprise-wide deployment of AI solutions and organizational transformation under current leadership.
Exploring Shifts in Customer Behavior and Internal Tech Adoption in Commercial and Government SectorsThe dialogue delves into changes in customer behavior driving increased demand for advanced technologies, internal tech integration for demand acceleration, and future government sector opportunities, emphasizing a subtle internal shift and impressive growth in government contracts.
Palantir's Strategic Growth: Deepening Customer Impact and Internal Commitment to UniquenessThe dialogue highlights Palantir's focus on deepening its impact with customers, showcasing tangible results and network effects. It also emphasizes the internal drive to maintain Palantir's unique attributes, ensuring close alignment with customer problems and enhancing product quality, while addressing global security challenges and controversies.
Internal Focus Drives Unprecedented Growth and Productivity in Sales and Government MarketsBy emphasizing internal dynamics and efficiency, the organization achieved remarkable growth, with 77% market expansion and 121% growth in US commercial operations. This success stems from enhancing employee productivity and expanding the use of advanced tools like AIFD, which not only boosts internal operations but also empowers customers. The approach is further bolstered by strategic engagement in US government projects, including critical initiatives against illicit drug trafficking, highlighting a commitment to national security alongside commercial objectives.
Debating Open Borders: Empathy for the Elite vs. the Working ClassA discussion on the impact of open borders, arguing that they benefit the elite while harming the average American worker, with a call for constitutional protection of the working class.
Celebrating Retail Investors' Role in Advancing Meritocracy and Economic GrowthThe dialogue concludes with gratitude towards individual investors, emphasizing their pivotal role in supporting meritocracy, technological advancement, and economic prosperity, particularly for the working class, highlighting their contributions to national and allied interests.
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Q：How much year over year and sequentially did Palantir's US commercial business grow?
A：Palantir's US commercial business grew an incredible 121% year over year and 29% sequentially.
Q：How much year over year growth did Palantir's US commercial business achieve in TCV, and what is the dollar weighted duration basis?
A：Palantir's US commercial business achieved a more than 6x year over year growth rate on a dollar weighted duration basis.
Q：What is the significance of Palantir's AIP platform in the enterprise AI market?
A：Palantir's AIP platform is significant in the enterprise AI market because it is the only platform delivering transformational impact and has a plan for compounding a company's AI leverage. AIP is also the only AI platform that prioritizes sharing this leverage with customers and is focused on value creation.
Q：What is the focus of Palantir's AI platform, AIP, in the context of enterprise AI adoption?
A：The focus of Palantir's AI platform, AIP, is to bring true transformational impact to the enterprise AI market and enable AI adoption that is an imperative at the C Suite level, with executive leadership recognizing the importance of enterprise wide AI adoption.
Q：What recent achievement did the US commercial business have in terms of TCV, and what was the growth rate?
A：The US commercial business closed $1.3 billion in TCV, representing a milestone with a growth rate of more than 6x year over year on a dollar weighted duration basis.
Q：What revenue growth figures are reported for Palantir's US government business?
A：Palantir's US government business revenue grew 52% year over year and 14% sequentially.
Q：What is the significance of the U.S. Army's directive on Vantage?
A：The U.S. Army's official public memo directing all Army organizations to consolidate and centralize on Vantage, the Army data platform built on Foundry and AIP, signifies a cultural as well as a technical decision. It is aimed at enabling data-driven decision-making, which is critical for the Army to become more lethal and to sunset legacy systems in favor of future force concept and systems.
Q：What is Warp Speed and the American Tech Fellowship, and how are they contributing to American manufacturing?
A：Warp Speed and the American Tech Fellowship are investments supporting manufacturing re-industrialization in America. Warp Speed helped new defense entrants meet surging production goals and is now being adopted across traditional defense and maritime industrial bases. The American Tech Fellowship aims to recognize and develop best builders who are often front-line workers without conventional consulting or computer science backgrounds, such as Mason, Michael, and Cody, who are applying AI to improve heavy construction estimates, streamline operations, and deliver reliable energy.
Q：What were the growth rates and customer metrics for the U.S. business and government segments in the third quarter?
A：The U.S. business overall grew 77% year over year and 20% sequentially in the third quarter. The U.S. commercial business grew 121% year over year and 29% sequentially, and the U.S. government business grew 52% year over year and 14% sequentially. The company also achieved an adjusted operating margin of 51%, exceeding the high end of guidance by 500 basis points, and reported a sequential increase of 20 points to its Rule of 40 score to 114 from 94 in the second quarter.
Q：What was the revenue and adjusted free cash flow growth for the company on a global scale in the third quarter?
A：Third quarter revenue grew 63% year over year and 18% sequentially to $1.181 billion. On a trailing 12-month basis, the company generated $2 billion in adjusted free cash flow for the first time in its history.
Q：What were the results regarding TCV bookings and customer growth?
A：The company closed its highest ever quarterly TCV bookings at $2.8 billion, up 151% year over year, exceeding the prior record set in the previous quarter by nearly half a billion dollars. Customer count grew 45% year over year and 7% sequentially to 911 customers.
Q：How did the revenue from the largest customers and commercial segment grow in the third quarter?
A：Third quarter trailing 12-month revenue from the top 20 customers increased 38% year over year to $83 million per customer. In the commercial segment, third quarter commercial revenue grew 73% year over year and 22% sequentially to $548 million. The company closed $1.4 billion in commercial TCV bookings, representing 132% growth year over year and 32% sequential growth.
Q：What were the international commercial and government revenue growth rates in the third quarter?
A：Third quarter international commercial revenue grew 10% year over year and 5% sequentially to $152 million. Government segment revenue grew 55% year over year and 14% sequentially to $633 million, driven by continued execution in existing programs and new awards.
Q：What were the increases in total remaining deal value and remaining performance obligations from the prior year?
A：The total remaining deal value ended at $8.6 billion, an increase of 91% year over year and 21% sequentially. The remaining performance obligations increased to $2.6 billion, up 66% year over year and 8% sequentially.
Q：What was the adjusted gross margin and adjusted income from operations for the quarter?
A：The adjusted gross margin was 84%, and the adjusted income from operations was $601 million, representing an adjusted operating margin of 51%.
Q：What were the GAAP net income, stock based compensation expense, and equity related employer payroll tax expense for the quarter?
A：The GAAP net income was $476 million, with stock based compensation expense at $172 million and equity related employer payroll tax expense at $35 million.
Q：How much in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term U.S. Treasury securities did the company have at the end of the third quarter?
A：The company ended the third quarter with $6.4 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term U.S. Treasury securities.
Q：How is the company's performance in the software industry described in the transcript?
A：The company's performance in the software industry is described as extraordinary, arguably the best by any software company, with a focus on value creation and customer alignment, not just selling commodity software.
Q：What is the significance of the rule of 40 score in relation to the company's performance?
A：The rule of 40 score is significant as it indicates the company's ability to grow profitably, with the third quarter's score of 114% representing strong growth and a focus on creating value, which is exceptional for an enterprise company.
Q：What is the company's approach to enhancing customer value?
A：The company's approach to enhancing customer value involves putting an FDA, orchestrating an ontology, and empowering the unique tribal understanding and value of their business, aligning with the customer's specific needs and processes.
Q：What does the company's success indicate about the AI market?
A：The company's success indicates that there is a significant part of the AI market that cares about value creation, and the company owns this part due to its expertise in FD orchestration, ontology, foundry, and deep understanding of these areas.
Q：What are the new expectations from clients and what services does Palantir offer to meet them?
A：New clients have high expectations, wanting to transform their business in months, in the public eye, and involving both product development and the implementation of AI, Ontology, FDA model, and tribal knowledge.
Q：How does Palantir's work with the US government and internationally differ from its initial projects?
A：Palantir's work with the US government and internationally is significantly more involved and critical, reshaping processes that are the problems themselves, rather than being downstream from them.
Q：What behavioral and internal changes have occurred at Palantir in response to customer demand?
A：There has been a shift towards deeper engagement with customers, tangible results, and a network effect of customers sharing their successes. Internally, Palantir is focusing on maintaining its unique attributes, aligning with problems closely, and recruiting the right people.
Q：How does Palantir ensure its products remain superior and fit well with customer needs?
A：Palantir aims to stay close to problems, enhance its products continually, ensure the best product teams, and provide precise fits for every deployment, particularly focusing on mission deployments.
Q：How does Palantir's work impact national defense and contribute to international efforts?
A：Palantir's work encompasses defending America and Ukraine, being on the front line against various adversaries, and supporting allies, including involvement in conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and the US's own hemisphere.
Q：What is the company's stance on political issues like immigration and drug trafficking?
A：The company's stance is to prioritize the safety of the average American and stop drug trafficking, irrespective of the social status of those affected, arguing that such efforts are in line with national security and public welfare.
