{"id":47027,"date":"2026-04-10T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47027"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:22:19","slug":"michael-burry-holds-palantir-short-after-trump-boost-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47027","title":{"rendered":"Michael Burry holds Palantir short after Trump boost stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Friday, Burry published a Substack post laying out two specific put option positions he is carrying against the company: $50-strike puts expiring June 17, 2027, and $100-strike puts expiring Dec. 19, 2026. &#8220;I am not selling these today,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s post on Friday described <!-- -->Palantir<!-- --> as having &#8220;great warfighting capabilities and equipment.&#8221; Despite the brief recovery, <!-- -->Palantir<!-- --> stock was on track for a roughly 13% weekly decline, bringing its 2026 losses to about 28%. The stock traded at about $127 on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Burry argued the Trump endorsement offered only temporary support. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s post rallied the stock after the stock had fallen 18% the last three days. The stock may catch a wind here,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I continue to hold the puts, as I believe the fundamental value of this company is well under $50\/share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to Burry, his initial short position was established in autumn 2025, and he has adjusted and renewed it on several occasions since then. Despite the stock&#8217;s retreat from a high of roughly $200 in the prior year, Burry characterized it as &#8220;wildly overvalued&#8221; at current levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Burry also disclosed Friday that he added to his bearish position on <!-- -->Nvidia<!-- --> <a class=\"inline-flex items-center font-semibold hover:underline not-prose\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quote\/NVDA\">$NVDA<\/a>, buying January 2027 puts with a $115 strike price at $3.30 per contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Palantir<!-- -->&#8216;s ties to the Trump administration have drawn attention throughout the year. Under Trump&#8217;s second term, CNBC has reported that <!-- -->Palantir<!-- --> has landed new government deals, expanded its Pentagon relationship, and seen Karp stay in close contact with administration figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Burry&#8217;s short position has previously drawn a sharp response from <!-- -->Palantir<!-- -->&#8216;s leadership. The initial disclosure of Scion Asset Management&#8217;s short positions in both <!-- -->Palantir<!-- --> and <!-- -->Nvidia<!-- --> drew a pointed reaction from Karp, who went on record describing the trades as &#8220;super weird&#8221; and &#8220;bats&#8212; crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/michael-burry-anthropic-palantir-enterprise-ai-spending-040926\">Palantir<!-- --> stock fell about 8% after Burry argued in a since-deleted post on <!-- -->X<!-- --> <\/a><a class=\"inline-flex items-center font-semibold hover:underline not-prose\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quote\/TWTR\">$TWTR<\/a> that Anthropic is capturing enterprise AI spending at <!-- -->Palantir<!-- -->&#8216;s expense. To support that argument, Burry pointed to ARR figures showing Anthropic scaling from $9 billion to $30 billion within months \u2014 a pace he set against <!-- -->Palantir<!-- -->&#8216;s own timeline, which he said took two decades to reach $5 billion in revenue. Central to Burry&#8217;s bear case is the view that <!-- -->Palantir<!-- --> functions more like a professional services firm than a technology product company, physically embedding engineers at client sites for extended periods rather than delivering software customers can deploy on their own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/michael-burry-holds-palantir-trump-boost-stock-041026\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Burry published a Substack post laying out two specific put option positions he is carrying against the company: $50-strike puts expiring June 17, 2027,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}