CLOSING BELL
Billions For PLTR Means Data Market Is In Growth Mode

Markets climbed Monday after a pullback week. The EU said it was pausing its tariff clap back after new rates came out last week, and Switzerland said it would try harder for a better deal with a 39% tariff dropping on Thursday. The post-weekend positivity sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to their best days since May.

It’s another full earnings week, but so far reports are going well: 2/3 of S&P 500 companies have reported so far, and 80% have reported beats, according to FactSet. 👀

Today's issue covers PLTR reports its first billion-dollar quarter, why did Berkshire’s report suck, and more.  📰

With the final numbers for indexes and the ETFs that track them, 10 of 11 sectors closed green, with tech $XLK ( ▼ 0.23% ) leading and energy $XLE ( ▲ 0.26% ) lagging.

S&P 500 $SPY ( ▼ 0.44% ) 6,339

Nasdaq 100 $QQQ ( ▼ 0.29% ) 23,188

Russell 2000 $IWM ( ▼ 1.05% ) 2,212

Dow Jones $DIA ( ▼ 0.78% ) 44,173

STONKS
PLTR Reports First Billion Dollar Quarter 🤖 

One of retail’s favorite stocks climbed Monday after reporting its first-ever $1B revenue quarter, above estimates. 🪙 

EPS came in at $0.16, up 77% in a year, and revenue came in at $1.004B, climbing 48% in a year. $PLTR ( ▼ 0.99% ) climbed even after it enjoyed a 490% price jump since last August.

Broken down by segment, U.S. government revenue came in at $426M, unharmed despite the new administration’s aims to cut spending. Commercial revenue grew 93% from last year to $306M. 🍊 

Analysts expected earnings of  $0.14/share on revenue of $939M according to FactSet. For the full year, analysts were looking for earnings of $0.58, and revenue at $3.9B, and the firm beat these expectations too by raising its full-year guidance.

The AI and military contracting firm said its full year 2025 would be a great one, posting revenue guidance of about $4.15B. Contracts closed in Q2 came in above $2.2B, a 140% in one year, the company said.

The massive climb in revenue sent the stock soaring and has so far minted five billionaires out of co-founders; most recently the data firm’s CTO, according to Bloomberg.

Palantir was a standout in Monday’s quarterly reports. $HIMS ( ▼ 3.55% ) fell 12% after hours, reporting revenue below estimates.

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COMPANY NEWS
Why Did Buffett’s Berkshire Report Suck

The king of long-term investing posted a drop in operating profit, and economic uncertainty hurt one of the largest corporate cash piles on the market, according to the Berkshire Hathaway first half of the year financial report that dropped over the weekend.

The massive conglomerate with the oldest-looking website I can think of posted a Q2 operating income decline to $11.16B, or $7,7609 per Class A share. The firm reported $877 million in currency losses blamed on the declining U.S. dollar.

“The pace of changes in these events, including tensions from developing international trade policies and tariffs, accelerated through the first six months of 2025,” Berkshire said

Berkshire’s massive cash pile fell from $348B in March to $344.1B, and it sold about $4.45B in equities and stock. The company has still not sold its Kraft Heinz stock, which lost nearly $4B in its decade-old investment, which made up about 60% of Berkshire’s operating income losses. Berkshire bought more than a quarter of Kraft shares back during the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz, and the weekend write-down of its stake is an admission that the purchase was not a very good idea, according to Bloomberg.

A WSJ report in July said ketchup ain’t what it used to be. Kraft Heinz was recently considering organizational alternatives, including a split up of its 200 brands into two separate tickers for sauce and deli meats.

If that was not bad enough, Berkshire said its insurance business felt a 12% decline in earnings, and the wizz kid Chief Warren Buffett is due to step down at the end of the year. 😭 

$BRK.B ( ▼ 0.58% ) has fallen more than 16% from the start of the year, as the company shifted its stock holdings into a massive cash pile that many have called ‘dry powder’, ready to deploy when high equity prices reach a sell-off point. 🧨 

Unfortunately, despite a massive April stock sell-off on tariff jitters, Berkshire has made no indication it is jumping back into the market yet on a large scale.

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POPS & DROPS
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GM reported a 115% YoY jump in EV sales for July, driven by the Chevrolet Equinox EV ahead of a looming tax credit cutoff. Read more

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The European Union agreed to suspend countermeasures on Trump’s tariffs for six months, pending finalization of a broader U.S.-EU trade agreement. Read more

WHAT’S ON DECK
Tomorrow’s Top Things 📋

Economic data: Trade Balance (8:30 AM), S&P Global PMI (9:45 AM), ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (10:00 AM), 3-Year Note Auction (1:00 PM), Atlanta Fed GDPNow (Q3) (1:00 PM), API Weekly Crude Oil Stock (4:30 PM). 📊

Pre-Market Earnings: Pfizer ($PFE) and Seanergy Maritime Holdings ($SHIP). 🛏️

After-Hour Earnings:  Advanced Micro Devices ($AMD), Snap ($SNAP), Lucid Group ($LCID), Clover Health Investments ($CLOV), Rivian Automotive ($RIVN), Super Micro Computer ($SMCI), Opendoor Technologies ($OPEN), and Upstart Holdings ($UPST). 🎧

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