Palantir Technologies (PLTR) surged 29.5% to $162.66, a move of a size this stock sees at most a few times a year, on $28.5bn of turnover. 15.5% of it was already in the opening print.
Across twelve months the stock has traded between $107.27 and $207.18, and today leaves it 55% up that band — neither end of it. The peak was November 3, 2025 (196 sessions ago), the floor June 25, 2026 (28 sessions ago).
The stock is up 31.7% over five sessions, down 6.5% over the year. The week and the year point in opposite directions. It closed above its thirty-day average price by 29.6%.
High to low, the session covered 13.1% of price — well beyond the 4.7% this stock averages over thirty sessions. The close held 91% of the way up the day's range into the bell. It was the 3rd session running higher.
Worth $301bn, the company sits 11 of 156 by size within technology. The sector as a whole finished +4.1%, leaning the same way.
Trading opened at $145.15, touched $164.52 at best and $143.28 at worst, and finished on $162.66 — 21.5% short of the $207.18 annual peak, 51.6% clear of the $107.27 annual floor.
Turnover of $28.5bn compares with $6.7bn on an average session for this stock, so participation was well above its own norm. Today was the sharpest single session this stock has printed in the past year.
Recent form leans positive: 14 of the last thirty sessions closed up against 13 down. Its strongest single day in the past year was +29.5% on August 4, 2026, its weakest -11.6% on February 4, 2026.
The nearest names by size in the same sector went the same way: Lam Research (LRCX) +7.9% and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) +5.5%. On money traded PLTR placed 3rd of 986 that session.
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