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Palantir Technologies (MIC:PLTR-RM) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio : -7.70% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Palantir Technologies 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

5-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past five years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Palantir Technologies's current 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -7.70%.

MIC:PLTR-RM's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked worse than
72.75% of 1967 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: -2.6 vs MIC:PLTR-RM: -7.70

Competitive Comparison of Palantir Technologies's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Palantir Technologies's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Palantir Technologies's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Palantir Technologies's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Palantir Technologies's 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.


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Palantir Technologies 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from five years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the latest six years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Palantir Technologies (MIC:PLTR-RM) 5-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.


Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.


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Palantir Technologies Business Description

Address
1200 17th Street, Floor 15, Denver, CO, USA, 80202
Palantir is an analytical software company that focuses on leveraging data to create efficiencies in its clients' organizations. The firm serves commercial and government clients via its Foundry and Gotham platforms, respectively. Palantir works only with entities in Western-allied nations and reserves the right not to work with anyone that is antithetical to Western values. The Denver-based company was founded in 2003 and went public in 2020.

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