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How Palantir Technologies Inc. makes its money

Start with a dollar of revenue and follow what the filing says remains.

revenueBranching filed flows with values and percentages directly labeled. Missing filing concepts are omitted rather than estimated.Revenue$4.5B · 100%Cost of revenue$789M · 18%Gross profit$3.7B · 82%Operating income$1.4B · 32%Income before tax$1.7B · 37%Income tax$22.7M · 1%Net income$1.6B · 36%As of 2025-12-31 · 1 SEC filing sourceBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com

Honest partial: the filing did not provide a normalized tag for Research and development, Selling, general and administrative; those components are omitted, not plugged.

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Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$4.5B100%
Cost of revenue$789M18%
$3.7B82%
$1.4B32%
Income before tax$1.7B37%
Income tax$22.7M1%
$1.6B36%
Source: · event Dec 31, 2025 · retrieved Oct 15, 2026 · annual-row source set
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