After a blowout quarterly earnings report this week, Palantir has become one of the buzziest (and most expensive) stocks on Wall Street.

The company’s eccentric CEO has led one of the most controversial companies in Silicon Valley to unprecedented success.

Data-mining firm Palantir said on Monday that its quarterly sales increased by 48%. This spike in the company's revenue was ...

Palantir Technologies, once overlooked by the Fortune 500, rises to become the 23rd most valuable company globally with a ...

Palantir Technologies stock (NASDAQ: PLTR) has had a remarkable run this year, more than doubling since early January to ...

What does Palantir do? Named after the mystical seeing stones in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the secretive tech firm sells software that can crunch colossal troves of data.

Palantir was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel — Silicon Valley’s preeminent conservative — Karp, and others with CIA backing.