Cathie Wood Just Sold $21 Million of Palantir Stock. Here’s Why That Could Be a Big Mistake.

She also often rebalances her portfolios by trimming outsize positions. While Palantir isn’t a megacap stock, it posted mammoth gains over the last week, making it a good candidate for trimming.

And thanks to the 25% one-day gain following Palantir’s earnings report, Wood was able to take sizable profits that she could redeploy toward other opportunities that she believes are undervalued. Among the numerous stock purchases Ark made last week were Space Exploration Technologies, Cerebras Systems, Block, and Coinbase Global.

However, I think Palantir has much more short-term and long-term potential than any of those companies. SpaceX is one of Wood’s favored holdings right now, with the second-greatest weighting in her company’s ETFs. But shares of Elon Musk’s company will likely be highly volatile as it invests heavily in data centers and AI infrastructure to build out its fledgling business.

I would much rather keep my money in Palantir and its highly successful AI-powered software platform, which the market is cheering for right now.

Palantir’s disruptive AI is changing how companies work

There are few companies as disruptive as Palantir, which is teaching its customers how to best incorporate AI into their systems to make them more productive. Palantir’s ontology system creates a digital twin of a client’s operations for its AI to review, analyze, and recommend improvements.

“I think strategically what’s really interesting to watch … was they’re not only helping their customers modernize their data, but they’re actually helping customers kind of optimize and choose the best model,” Tyler Radke, a senior equity analyst at Citi, said in an interview on BNN Bloomberg last week.

Palantir closed $3.37 billion in total contract value in the second quarter alone, signing 220 million-dollar deals, with 73 of those valued at least $10 million. That helps explain how its U.S. commercial revenue grew 149% in the second quarter, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of more than 100% revenue growth for that segment of the business.

Wood’s philosophy works for her. But Palantir still has a long road ahead, and I think she’s leaving money on the table by selling the stock now.

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