PLTR vs TSM: Which Is the Better Buy?

Side-by-side comparison of Palantir Technologies Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited โ€” fair value, conviction, valuation metrics, and QuantHub research signals. Updated 2026-09-26.
Palantir Technologies Inc. ยท Technology
$189.67
+2.4% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade C High Quality
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited ยท Technology
$452.00
+13.9% upside to fair value
Med Conviction Grade B High Quality
QuantHub Verdict
TSM has more upside to fair value (+13.9%). These are model outputs โ€” not personalized investment advice. See all research โ†’
Valuation & Fundamentals
Metric PLTR TSM
Current Price $189.67 $452.00
Fair Value Estimate $194.30 $515.00
Upside to Fair Value +2.4% +13.9%
Market Cap $435.5B $2,344.3B
Forward P/E โ€” โ€”
EV / EBITDA 139.9x 19.2x
Price / Sales 70.7x 0.5x
Price / FCF 135.3x 2.1x
Revenue Growth YoY +92.8% +36.0%
Gross Margin 84.8% 64.2%
Operating Margin 42.8% 56.0%
Return on Equity 37.5% 39.3%
Dividend Yield 0% 0.96%
FCF Yield 0.74% 47.62%
Analyst Consensus Hold Buy
Investment Thesis
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
TSM โ€” Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest contract chipmaker, manufacturing advanced logic, mixed-signal, RF, and embedded memory wafers for high-performance computing, smartphones, IoT, and automotive customers from a base of 65,152 employees headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The business quality is exceptionally high: TTM gross margin is 64.2%, TTM operating margin is 56โ€ฆ
Accumulation Zones
Metric PLTR TSM
Zone Low $145.73 $386.25
Zone High $165.16 $437.75
In Buy Zone? No No
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