To The Moon

4.6-star Wedbush analyst Dan Ives is a big fan of tech stock Palantir ($PLTR). In fact, he even called it the “Messi of AI” (referring to the profe...

The stock is the S&P 500's biggest gainer this year with a near 5-fold rally, while the average analyst price target was 46% below current levels. Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. edged further into record territory Thursday, as investors have been betting aggressively on the software company's role in the growth of artificial intelligence.But the stock has rallied so much, that it has overshot the expectations of even the most bullish analysts on Wall Street by a wide margin.Palantir makes software that helps businesses and the government use AI to analyze large amounts of data.Nvidia Corp. may be referred to by many as the AI leader, as it dominates the market for AI semiconductors. But Palantir has been investors' AI darling, and has been the beneficiary of some rotation out of AI hardware names into software.The stock was by far the S&P 500 index's SPX best performer this year, as it has skyrocketed 380.9% year to date to boost Palantir's market value to $188.1 billion. Meanw