Relative to other government contractors, Palantir is pretty good. More so because the bar is typically so low, though.

But that's priced in.

Them featuring in conspiracy theories is just because there's a cultural treadmill for all these things, isn't there? You can't harp on about Raytheon forever. Those are the villans of the past. Back when Bush was the great evil, or something. To get engagement, you need to frame things in the current meta.