Palantir Technologies analyze

First up is data-mining giant Palantir Technologies . The company isn't exactly inexpensive based on its multiple relative to forecasted sales, but there's no other company that provides artificial-intelligence inspired data mining quite like it. That makes Palantir an excellent candidate to scoop up during a crash.Palantir's biggest revenue generator for the time being is its Gotham platform, which primarily caters to the U.S. government. Gotham is responsible for helping the U.S. government with data culling and various missions. A number of large recent contracts helped push sales in its government business segment up 76% in the first quarter, with 83% sales growth from U.S. government customers.While there's no question that government contracts provide cash flow stability in the near term, Palantir's bigger long-term opportunity involves its Foundry platform. Foundry caters to enterprise customers and is designed to help them better understand their data in order to streamline their operations.Though sales growth is more tepid at the moment in Palantir's commercial segment, the customer pool is substantially larger. It also doesn't hurt that commercial customers tend to sign longer-duration contracts than government customers. $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$