Palantir stock sold off 38% from November to February and is down about 10% year-to-date. Even so, it has held up better than many software peers given the software sector has taken it on the chin lately with many promising names down 45% YTD. With this backdrop, the softer price action raises a straightforward question: is Palantir's growth engine still intact or is the premium valuation finally cracking? To answer that, the I/O Fund team dug into Palantir’s most recent earnings report and the key metrics that matter most. We also compare this quarter to the string of strong earnings reports Palantir has delivered for nearly three years to see whether the fundamentals are still pointing in the same direction.

Investors have been hearing “tech bubble” warnings for more than a decade — but instead of collapsing, the Nasdaq‑100 has gained 550%. If we look back ten years ago to 2015, headlines such as “Sell everything! 2016 will be a cataclysmic year” confronted investors with calls for an imminent recession. The bears made repeated claims that a “tech bubble” was about to burst with some of the world’s most prominent venture capitalists drawing parallels to the dot-com era. What followed tells a very different story with not only the Nasdaq-100 up 550% over a 10-year period but also high-flying stocks like Shopify returned as much as 5200% and Nvidia returned 22,000% over the same period.

The market is fixated on when Big Tech will generate economic value from the $650 billion+ being poured into AI data center expansion annually. The market is missing the point. Monetization has never been Big Tech’s weakness as explosive revenue growth and high margins have defined their businesses for decades. While execution risk always exists, these companies remain the world’s most reliable operators at scale.

I’m pleased to share the I/O Fund’s audited 2025 return of 37%, bringing cumulative performance since our May 2020 launch to 326%. This represents a 294% lead versus popular tech ETFs and a 152% outperformance versus the Nasdaq-100 over the same period. Our 2025 equity-only return of 56% would rank approximately #3 when compared against other thematic ETFs. On an annualized basis, the I/O Fund has delivered 29.2% per year, a result that outpaces Wall Street’s most established hedge funds.

Bitcoin rarely rewards narrative-based investors for long. Time and again, it has shown a habit of reversing its dominant trend against the prevailing story of the moment. A large portion of the I/O Fund’s edge has been staying on the right side of Bitcoin’s big turns in both directions by following a process rooted in analyzing sentiment through technical analysis, rather than headlines.

Since November 2021, when the equal-weight Mag 7 Index does not confirm a new high in the S&P 500, it has been a reliable signal of a weakening market environment. A similar divergence is occurring today, with only one Mag 7 – Google – moving to new highs,  offering a warning for the durability of the broader uptrend.

TSMC is one of the least sensational management teams in the AI stocks space, yet management explicitly called AI a multi-year “megatrend” in their most recent earnings call, with demand now being pulled not just by chip designers, but directly by hyperscale cloud providers seeking to lock in capacity.  

Big Tech is expected to invest $530 billion for building AI infrastructure in 2026, while the path to near-term monetization remains a question mark. As investor scrutiny around capital expenditure intensifies, the key question is no longer who is spending the most on AI, but who is translating that spend into measurable revenue and sustainable margins.