Palantir shares hold near $123 as hedge fund interest rises, while Snowflake funds trim positions

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) is trading close to the $123 area after a challenging stretch that has left the stock down roughly 25% for the year, according to a Yahoo Finance market column published July 29. The same note argues that the “looks like trouble” storyline is not the whole picture, pointing to recent operating results as the key counterweight.

In that column, Palantir is framed as a business with momentum in sales. The writer cites first-quarter revenue of $1.63 billion, describing it as up 85% from a year earlier. That growth rate, if sustained, helps explain why investors may be willing to look past near-term price weakness while they reassess Palantir’s longer-term demand.

The market note also highlights positioning by hedge funds, saying “smart money” has shifted in Palantir’s favor. While the post’s headline emphasizes an increase in hedge-fund backing, it does not, in the information provided here, specify which funds bought or sold, the size of those changes, or whether the net effect came through new positions or existing stakes.

On the same theme of shifting capital, the column contrasts Palantir with Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW). It states that Snowflake “sees trims,” suggesting some funds have reduced exposure. The post’s framing implies investors are differentiating between the two companies rather than treating them as one basket of cloud and data software bets, but the provided details do not include the magnitude of Snowflake’s trimming or the reasons behind it.

For context, both companies operate in the data and analytics ecosystem, but they are often discussed differently by the market. Palantir’s narrative tends to center on deployment of software into specific operational environments, while Snowflake’s is tied to its cloud data platform. When capital rotates within this broader category, it usually reflects changing views on customer demand durability, pricing power, and the pace at which enterprise budgets shift toward new data infrastructure.

Still, investors may want to be cautious about how much weight to place on a single “hedge fund backing” headline. Hedge-fund flows can be driven by many factors, including risk management, rebalancing, and time-horizon changes, and they do not automatically translate into a sustained trend for ordinary investors.

The July 29 column does not disclose, in the material available here, the exact hedge fund filings, the number of shares, the cost basis, or the dates those trades were reported. It also does not provide a fuller set of fundamentals beyond the first-quarter revenue figure, such as profitability, cash flow, guidance, or customer concentration.

What to watch next is whether Palantir can convert that reported top-line growth into consistent margins and durable bookings, and whether the hedge-fund interest referenced in the note persists through subsequent reporting periods. On the competitive side, investors may also watch whether Snowflake’s position trims are linked to a broader reassessment of spending on data platforms, or instead to idiosyncratic factors unique to particular funds.