Palantir Lacks Consistent Commercial Growth, Analy...

In a fascinating under-appreciated research note, the research boutique Melius Research last week picked up coverage of Palantir Technologies stock with a Hold rating and $20 target price. Analyst Carter Copeland typically covers defense and aerospace companies—as he points out, he is no software analyst. But he writes that he increasingly “bumps into” the data-analytics firm in both the national security realm and “the old economy, where technology is shifting at a rapid pace.”