Which is more profitable, Applied Materials or Palantir Technologies?

Palantir Technologies keeps more of every sale as profit.

Which grows faster, Applied Materials or Palantir Technologies?

Palantir Technologies grew its sales faster in recent years.

Which is cheaper, Applied Materials or Palantir Technologies?

Applied Materials costs less for each unit of yearly profit (lower P/E).

Which has less debt, Applied Materials or Palantir Technologies?

Palantir Technologies would need fewer years of earnings to pay off its debt.

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Palantir TechnologiesPLTR

Applied Materials vs Palantir Technologies stock

Side by side in plain words: who keeps more of its sales, grows faster, costs less and owes less.

In one sentence

Applied Materials is cheaper for its profits. Palantir Technologies is more profitable, grows faster and has less debt.

Side by side

	Applied Materials	Palantir Technologies
	$294 billion	$405 billion
	24.7%	36.3%
	+10.5%	+32.6%
	42.0×	249.1×
	Net cash	Net cash
	28.1%	15.0%
	0.4%	–

Open Applied Materials Open Palantir Technologies

How we compare

Four contests with the same rules as each stock page: profit kept from sales (higher wins), yearly sales growth across the last reports, up to five years (higher wins), price per unit of yearly profit (lower P/E wins; a company without profit loses) and debt in years of earnings (lower wins). A winner is only named when both companies have the number.

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