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<ul><li>4 + 1 cherry picked Maverick Charts of the week say 10,000 words or more = the ‘How’!</li><li>Table of contents = the ‘What’! Executed in a succinct manner with the aim of a high density of ideas, because great research respects the reader’s time: Maverick Charts: Defense Contractors Backlog, Palantir, Mercado Libre, Wix</li><li>Bonus: S&amp;P 500 1st year Performance with new Fed Chair</li></ul>

4 + 1 cherry picked Maverick Charts of the week say 10,000 words or more = the ‘How’!Table of contents = the ‘What’! Executed in a succinct manner with the aim of a high density of ideas, because great research respects the reader’s time: Maverick Charts: Defense Contractors Backlog, Palantir, Mercado Libre, WixBonus: S&amp;P 500 1st year Performance with new Fed Chair

Defense Contractors Backlog, Palantir, Mercado Libre, Wix + S&P 500 & New Fed Chair

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<ul><li>The U.S. Navy just signed a $448 million contract with Palantir Technologies to overhaul how it maintains and repairs nuclear submarines.</li><li>This partnership centers on "Ship OS," a new AI-driven logistics platform built by Palantir.</li><li>It aims to digitize and streamline the Navy’s sprawling and often outdated maintenance and supply chain processes.</li></ul>

The U.S. Navy just signed a $448 million contract with Palantir Technologies to overhaul how it maintains and repairs nuclear submarines.This partnership centers on "Ship OS," a new AI-driven logistics platform built by Palantir.It aims to digitize and streamline the Navy’s sprawling and often outdated maintenance and supply chain processes.

Palantir Just Landed A $448M Navy Deal—What It Means for U.S. Shipbuilding!

<ul><li>Palantir Technologies Inc. has recently reported an exceptionally strong set of financial results for Q3 2025, marked by significant revenue growth and an impressive expansion of its U.S. commercial business.</li><li>The company reported a year-over-year revenue growth of 63%, with particularly notable performance in the U.S. where revenue increased by 77%.</li><li>A major contributor to this success was the expansion of Palantir's U.S. commercial segment, which grew by 121% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Palantir Technologies Inc. has recently reported an exceptionally strong set of financial results for Q3 2025, marked by significant revenue growth and an impressive expansion of its U.S. commercial business.The company reported a year-over-year revenue growth of 63%, with particularly notable performance in the U.S. where revenue increased by 77%.A major contributor to this success was the expansion of Palantir's U.S. commercial segment, which grew by 121% year-over-year.

Palantir Technologies Skyrocketing & Disappointing All Shorts: How Its AI-Oriented Ontology Framework Driving Deep Customer Lock-In!

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<li>Anthropic faces a potential "Down Round" in its IPO slated for later this year.  The dynamics of the AI sector have deteriorated substantially since the company announced its IPO filing.</li>
<li>The private market valuation, based on funding rounds, tripled between February and May this year, adding roughly $600 billion to its market value. The company participates in AI circular financing.</li>
<li>Valuation compression, competition from Chinese open-source models, regulatory challenges, slowing token usage, and market share loss are pre-IPO challenges for the company.</li>
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Anthropic faces a potential "Down Round" in its IPO slated for later this year.  The dynamics of the AI sector have deteriorated substantially since the company announced its IPO filing.
The private market valuation, based on funding rounds, tripled between February and May this year, adding roughly $600 billion to its market value. The company participates in AI circular financing.
Valuation compression, competition from Chinese open-source models, regulatory challenges, slowing token usage, and market share loss are pre-IPO challenges for the company.


ANTHROPIC IPO: Will Investors Accept a Down Round?

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<ul><li>The Indian IT sector has endured a sharp 25% correction over the past three months, fuelled by investor fears that Gen-AI platforms like Claude (by Anthropic) and Palantir could upend traditional SaaS and IT services models</li><li>Yet the industry demonstrates resilience, contending that deploying these unproven technologies in complex, "brownfield" regulatory landscapes prove far more challenging than the hype implies</li><li>As noted in our December 2025 sector update, we initially pegged AI's deflationary impact at ~4%, anticipating offsets from fresh deal wins</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

The Indian IT sector has endured a sharp 25% correction over the past three months, fuelled by investor fears that Gen-AI platforms like Claude (by Anthropic) and Palantir could upend traditional SaaS and IT services modelsYet the industry demonstrates resilience, contending that deploying these unproven technologies in complex, "brownfield" regulatory landscapes prove far more challenging than the hype impliesAs noted in our December 2025 sector update, we initially pegged AI's deflationary impact at ~4%, anticipating offsets from fresh deal winsContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

IT Sector: Disruption yields opportunities

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Palantir Technologies Inc. develops software to analyze information. The Company offers solutions support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Palantir Technologies serves customers worldwide.

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Defense Contractors Backlog, Palantir, Mercado Libre, Wix + S&P 500 & New Fed Chair

Table of contents = the ‘What’! Executed in a succinct manner with the aim of a high density of ideas, because great research respects the reader’s...

Maverick Equity Research

Palantir Just Landed A $448M Navy Deal—What It Means for U.S. Shipbuilding!

The U.S. Navy just signed a $448 million contract with Palantir Technologies to overhaul how it maintains and repairs nuclear submarines. This...

Baptista Research

Palantir Technologies Skyrocketing & Disappointing All Shorts: How Its AI-Oriented Ontology Framework Driving Deep Customer Lock-In!

Palantir Technologies Inc. has recently reported an exceptionally strong set of financial results for Q3 2025, marked by significant revenue...

Baptista Research

ANTHROPIC IPO: Will Investors Accept a Down Round?

Anthropic faces a potential "Down Round" in its IPO slated for later this year. The dynamics of the AI sector have deteriorated substantially...

David Mudd

IT Sector: Disruption yields opportunities

As noted in our December 2025 sector update, we initially pegged AI's deflationary impact at ~4%, anticipating offsets from fresh deal wins

HDFC Securities

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