Stock futures were rising Tuesday as investors shrugged off a flare-up of tensions in the Middle East. Palantir Technologies slid 3.3% even as the data-wrangling software developer’s first-quarter earnings topped Wall Street’s expectations on all key metrics. Because it trades at such a lofty valuation, with the stock fetching 97 times expected earnings per share for the next 12 months, Palantir gets judged not on whether it beats expectations but how much it beats estimates.
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