Palantir Q3 2026 earnings: US sales +119%, international +26%
Palantir's press release says "Crushing Consensus Expectations." In the headline. Humble guys.
On the surface, a monster quarter. US sales +119%, to $1.94 billion. Karp's goal needs about 50% a year. Green box.
But look abroad. +26%, to about $376 million. The goal needs about a third a year. First red box on the board.
So is the plan broken? No. Year so far, abroad is at 32%. One slow quarter. But the quarter was only 4% bigger than Q2, and that's the part to watch.
And you might think, "Fine, America covers it." Right? It does. Gus's math: at 26% a year, abroad lands around $3.8 billion in 2030 instead of $5 billion. About 3% of Karp's $38 billion. America grows more than twice as fast as the goal needs. It eats that for breakfast.
That's also the problem. The plan already needed nine tenths of its growth from America. Now it leans on America even more. And the new contracts signed in the quarter, $2.92 billion, grew 6% while sales grew 96%. Sales are running way ahead of the deals.
Karp says it all "works only in artistic combination." Bro, it's one country carrying the team.
So the plan holds, and it got more fragile. Next check: Q4, in February. Watch abroad and the new contracts.