BA vs PLTR: Which Is the Better Buy?

Side-by-side comparison of The Boeing Company and Palantir Technologies Inc. β€” fair value, conviction, valuation metrics, and QuantHub research signals. Updated 2026-09-26.
The Boeing Company Β· Industrials
$201.15
+31.7% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade B
VS
Palantir Technologies Inc. Β· Technology
$189.67
+2.4% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade C High Quality
QuantHub Verdict
BA has more upside to fair value (+31.7%). These are model outputs β€” not personalized investment advice. See all research β†’
Valuation & Fundamentals
Metric BA PLTR
Current Price $201.15 $189.67
Fair Value Estimate $265.00 $194.30
Upside to Fair Value +31.7% +2.4%
Market Cap $159.0B $435.5B
Forward P/E β€” β€”
EV / EBITDA 28.4x 139.9x
Price / Sales 1.7x 70.7x
Price / FCF β€” 135.3x
Revenue Growth YoY +8.0% +92.8%
Gross Margin 4.7% 84.8%
Operating Margin -5.4% 42.8%
Return on Equity 104.8% 37.5%
Dividend Yield 0% 0%
FCF Yield β€” 0.74%
Analyst Consensus Strong Buy Hold
Investment Thesis
BA β€” The Boeing Company
Boeing is a global aerospace and defense manufacturer spanning commercial airliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, and aftermarket services, with roughly 182,000 employees and a business that remains structurally advantaged by the duopoly economics of large commercial aircraft and the long-cycle, high-switching-cost nature of aerospace platforms. The business quality is currentl…
PLTR β€” Palantir Technologies Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc. is a software infrastructure company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Denver that builds and deploys Gotham for intelligence and defense workflows, Foundry as a central data operating system for enterprises, Apollo for software delivery across environments, and its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) for unified access to open-source, self-hosted, and commercial …
Accumulation Zones
Metric BA PLTR
Zone Low $198.75 $145.73
Zone High $225.25 $165.16
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