Jim Cramer lifts Palantir spotlight, calling PLTR the “fastest grower” he follows despite recent slump

Palantir Technologies, the data and AI software company traded on Nasdaq as PLTR, drew bullish commentary from Jim Cramer as markets rotated on Wednesday. In remarks highlighted by a market-news roundup, Cramer said Palantir was the only stock he felt he could “actually trust” and described it as the “fastest grower of the stocks I follow,” adding that it “has been crushed.”

Cramer’s framing centered on the gap between investor sentiment and the company’s business momentum. The host pointed to the stock’s decline from a prior peak, saying Palantir was “down 80 points from its high,” and suggested that the shares were beginning to show “some signs of life” that day.

In the same discussion, Cramer characterized Palantir as a long-term growth story rather than a near-term momentum play. He said that while growth had not slowed, “the growth wasn’t very exciting to people,” which he said translated into pressure on the stock rather than on the company’s fundamentals.

The comments arrived in the context of how Cramer was advising viewers to think about broader market movements, including which sectors or themes were working at that moment. Palantir was singled out alongside other names in the same coverage, but the key takeaway for PLTR was that Cramer’s confidence was less about short-term trading action and more about whether the company can keep expanding.

For context, Palantir develops software platforms used by organizations to integrate, analyze, and act on large, complex data sets. The roundup describing Cramer’s remarks also listed Palantir product lines, including Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo, along with a Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform, describing them as tools that help users work with difficult operational and decision data.

Cramer’s exchange included a caller question about whether to add to an existing position, with the host responding that it was reasonable for investors to hold if they recognized Palantir as a long-term growth story. The implication of that guidance was that patience matters for PLTR’s profile, particularly when expectations for the pace or visibility of growth are out of step with the market.

Still, the segment did not provide new financial guidance or disclose additional company-specific milestones in the material available for this story. There were no fresh numbers on revenue, margins, customer counts, or contract awards in the quoted coverage, and the basis for the “80 points” comparison was not tied to an explicit trading-date reference in the recap.

Looking ahead, market watchers will likely focus on whether Palantir can sustain the kind of “signs of life” Cramer referenced, and whether future updates clarify how investors should interpret the relationship between Palantir’s ongoing growth trajectory and the stock’s volatility. The immediate question is whether Wednesday’s apparent bounce reflects a durable shift in sentiment or merely a rotation-driven move.