DHR vs PLTR: Which Is the Better Buy?

Side-by-side comparison of Danaher Corporation and Palantir Technologies Inc. โ€” fair value, conviction, valuation metrics, and QuantHub research signals. Updated 2026-09-26.
Danaher Corporation ยท Healthcare
$221.12
+29.6% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade B High Quality
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Palantir Technologies Inc. ยท Technology
$189.67
+2.4% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade C High Quality
QuantHub Verdict
DHR has more upside to fair value (+29.6%). These are model outputs โ€” not personalized investment advice. See all research โ†’
Valuation & Fundamentals
Metric DHR PLTR
Current Price $221.12 $189.67
Fair Value Estimate $286.52 $194.30
Upside to Fair Value +29.6% +2.4%
Market Cap $155.4B $435.5B
Forward P/E โ€” โ€”
EV / EBITDA 24.8x 139.9x
Price / Sales 6.2x 70.7x
Price / FCF 28.5x 135.3x
Revenue Growth YoY +5.5% +92.8%
Gross Margin 58.5% 84.8%
Operating Margin 20.4% 42.8%
Return on Equity 7.7% 37.5%
Dividend Yield 0.65% 0%
FCF Yield 3.51% 0.74%
Analyst Consensus Strong Buy Hold
Investment Thesis
DHR โ€” Danaher Corporation
Danaher is a diversified life-sciences and diagnostics platform spanning three segments: Life Sciences (mass spectrometers, flow cytometry, genomics, bioprocess technologies), Diagnostics (chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, hematology, molecular and pathology systems), and Environmental & Applied Solutions (water quality and product-identification instrumentation). The business quality is highโ€ฆ
PLTR โ€” 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 โ€ฆ
Accumulation Zones
Metric DHR PLTR
Zone Low $214.89 $145.73
Zone High $243.54 $165.16
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