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The data-analytics company said third-quarter revenue rose 96% year over year and accelerated gains in its U.S. commercial business, while lifting full-year guidance for both total revenue and U.S. commercial revenue.
Palantir Technologies reported strong results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2026, with revenue up 96% year over year. In the same quarter, the company said its U.S. commercial revenue grew 148% year over year, a much faster pace than its overall top-line expansion.
In its announcement, Palantir also raised its revenue outlook for full-year 2026. The company guided for revenue growth of 91% year over year for the year, an increase versus what investors may have been expecting based on the company’s statement that it is “crushing consensus expectations.”
Palantir further increased guidance specifically for its U.S. commercial business. The company said it now expects U.S. commercial revenue to grow 143% year over year in 2026, reinforcing that its commercial expansion is the key driver of the higher outlook.
Palantir’s business centers on software platforms that help customers integrate large volumes of data and apply analytics and artificial intelligence to operational decisions. The company’s reporting by customer geography and type means that growth rates can vary widely depending on contract wins and the pace of deployments, which is why the U.S. commercial segment is closely watched by the market.
The quarter’s emphasis on U.S. commercial revenue matters because it indicates continued momentum outside government budgets. In many enterprise software models, commercial growth tends to be more sensitive to customer procurement cycles and implementation timelines than long-running government programs, so a steep year-over-year growth rate can be interpreted as evidence of scaling customer adoption.
Even with the quantitative growth figures and guidance raises, Palantir did not provide additional operational detail in the brief market report that accompanied the announcement. The post did not break out metrics such as revenue by product line, customer count changes, retention indicators, or discussion of how quickly commercial deployments are converting from pilots to broader rollouts.
What to watch next is whether the company provides more granular disclosures when it files the full quarterly materials. Investors will likely look for confirmation of the drivers behind the U.S. commercial acceleration, including any discussion of deal pipeline timing, implementation capacity, and how much of the growth is tied to new customer wins versus expansion within existing accounts.
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A new market wrap from Yahoo Finance points readers toward the figures that typically shape how Palantir Technologies’ results are interpreted each quarter, after the company reported performance for the quarter ended September 2026.
In its latest quarterly update cited by Yahoo Finance, Palantir said U.S. commercial sales rose 148% year over year in the third quarter and surpassed sales to the U.S. government.
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