Karim Rahemtulla of Monument Traders Alliance is behind “The Ultimate Stock Unicorn.” We follow its Palantir, Trump and North Sea clues and test the promise against the filings.
One promotion, several names — all of them point to the same pitch, and the same stock.
“The Ultimate Stock Unicorn” is the headline Karim Rahemtulla is using for a Monument Traders Alliance promotion. The report is also offered as “The Most Wildly Profitable and Insanely Cheap Stock in the Market.”
The pitch says only one of 23,281 publicly traded stocks fits its secret unicorn formula: a tiny company generating more cash than Chipotle, Hilton and Advanced Micro Devices, paying a giant dividend, working with Palantir, and sitting at the center of both energy and artificial intelligence. It also folds in President Trump, the U.K. North Sea and an approximately $8 billion market capitalization.
We identify the stock below as APA Corporation (APA), with 91/100 confidence. No deadline is supplied in the promotion details here.
The same pitch appears under several labels: “Stock Unicorn,” “Ultimate Stock Unicorn,” “A Stock Unicorn,” “unicorn stock,” “The Next Unicorn Stock,” “the unicorn stock,” “Unicorn Energy Company,” and “The Most Wildly Profitable and Insanely Cheap Stock in the Market.” These names refer to the same promotion, not a collection of separate discoveries.
The useful fingerprints are unusually specific: a U.S. energy company with a multi-year Palantir agreement, operations in the U.K. North Sea, Trump comments about continued North Sea drilling, roughly $3.6 billion in operating cash flow and a market value near $8 billion. That combination leaves a very short list.
The stock is APA Corporation (APA), an independent oil and gas company. APA’s 2024 Form 10-K describes operations in the United States, Egypt and the U.K. North Sea, which fits the promotion’s energy and overseas-trade clues.
The strongest fingerprint is the Palantir relationship. Palantir’s September 25, 2024 announcement says APA agreed to a multi-year, multi-million-dollar extension of its enterprise agreement, including use of Foundry and AIP across oil and gas operations. That is the real partnership behind the “AI energy” language.
The political clue lines up too, but with less drama than the copy suggests. S&P Global reported that Trump’s January 3, 2025 post backed continued North Sea drilling and criticized U.K. policy. He said the U.K. was making a “very big mistake”; he didn’t specifically endorse APA or its stock. The operating cash flow and market-cap clues point in the same direction, making APA the clear match.
The claim-by-claim table that follows separates the hard matches from the rounded figures, subjective descriptions and statements that cannot be independently checked. It also puts the promotion’s Trump, Palantir, cash-flow and dividend language next to the relevant company filings and public records.
| The promotion claims | Verdict | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Only one of 23,281 publicly traded stocks meets the promotion’s unicorn criteria | Can't verify | APA’s SEC filings and public market records do not define the promotion’s 23,281-stock universe or its proprietary unicorn criteria, so the exclusivity claim cannot be independently checked. |
| President Trump publicly backed the company | Overstated |
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The pitch’s central claim is simple: APA is a tiny, wildly profitable energy company, Palantir turns it into an AI story, and Trump’s North Sea intervention gives it the political tailwind of a stock unicorn. The first part has substance. APA reported $3.62 billion in 2024 operating cash flow, and its Palantir agreement is real. The AI link is where the chain starts to wobble: APA’s own 10-K classifies it as an oil and gas exploration and production company, not an AI business.
The Trump connection is the weakest link. A presidential post supporting North Sea drilling is not the same thing as a presidential endorsement of APA. The promotion turns a broad policy comment into a company-specific stock clue, while the source material names the U.K.’s policy dispute rather than APA. That is a meaningful difference, not a footnote.
The cash comparisons mostly hold, and revenue rose 17.6% in 2024, so the operating story isn’t empty. The dividend story is another matter. APA paid a regular $0.25 per share each quarter throughout 2023 and 2024; the last increase came in 2022, when the dividend doubled from $0.125. That is not a 20% increase. Its yield was roughly 2.6 times the S&P 500’s, not 300% bigger than the index average.
On its merits, APA is a real cash-generating energy company with exposure to commodity prices and a growing regulatory headache in the U.K. Its 2024 10-K says tax levies and regulatory obligations made further North Sea investment uneconomic and led APA to plan production cessation before 2030. That can still make the stock worth studying. It just makes the investable case an energy-and-cash-flow story, not an AI unicorn hiding in plain sight.
How confident are we? 91 out of 100. We identified APA Corporation (APA) from the promotion's own clues and checked 20 of its claims against filings, earnings calls, ownership records, market data and public reporting. This is our analysis, not the publisher's disclosure — we have no relationship with them.
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| Trump said that messing with the company was a “big mistake” | Overstated | S&P Global quotes Trump as saying that “The U.K. is making a very big mistake” while urging it to open the North Sea; he did not specifically say that interfering with APA was a mistake. |
| The company signed a multi-year partnership with Palantir | Checks out | Palantir’s September 25, 2024 announcement says APA Corporation and Palantir agreed to a multi-year, multi-million-dollar extension of their enterprise agreement. |
| The company is at the epicenter of the energy industry | Checks out | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K describes the company as an independent energy business with oil and gas operations in the United States, Egypt, and the U.K. North Sea. |
| The company is at the epicenter of the AI industry | Overstated | Palantir’s announcement confirms that APA uses Foundry and AIP to apply AI across oil and gas operations, but APA’s 2024 Form 10-K classifies it as an oil and gas exploration and production company rather than an AI company. |
| The company generates more cash than Chipotle | Checks out | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K reports $3.62 billion of operating cash flow, versus $2.105 billion reported in Chipotle’s 2024 results. |
| The company generates more cash than Hilton | Checks out | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K reports $3.62 billion of operating cash flow, versus $2.013 billion reported in Hilton’s 2024 Form 10-K. |
| The company generates more cash than Advanced Micro Devices | Checks out | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K reports $3.62 billion of operating cash flow, slightly above AMD’s $3.041 billion reported in its 2024 Form 10-K. |
| The company generates more cash than many other brand-name companies | Can't verify | The promotion does not identify the other companies or specify whether it means operating cash flow, free cash flow, or another measure, so the broader comparison cannot be independently checked. |
| The company pays a giant dividend | Can't verify | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K records a regular dividend of $0.25 per quarter, but the word “giant” is subjective and the promotion supplies no objective benchmark beyond its separate S&P 500 comparison. |
| The company’s dividend is 300% bigger than the S&P 500 average | Overstated | APA’s annualized $1.00 dividend implied a yield of roughly 2.86% against an S&P 500 yield near 1.09%, or about 2.6 times the index yield rather than four times, although it was directionally higher. |
| The company generates over $3 billion in cash | Checks out | APA’s 2024 full-year results reported $3.6 billion of net cash provided by operating activities. |
| Revenue is up 15% | Overstated | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K reports revenue of approximately $9.737 billion versus $8.279 billion in 2023, a 17.6% increase rather than exactly 15%, so the direction is correct but the figure is stretched. |
| The dividend is up 20% | Contradicted | APA’s dividend history and 2024 Form 10-K show a $0.25 quarterly dividend throughout 2023 and 2024; the last increase was in 2022, from $0.125 to $0.25 per share, a 100% increase rather than 20%. |
| The company has a market capitalization of about $8 billion | Checks out | CompaniesMarketCap’s historical series places APA’s 2024 market capitalization near $8.17 billion, and a separate historical series puts it at about $7.98 billion on January 31, 2025, although its current market value is higher. |
| The country involved has more than 60 million inhabitants | Checks out | The U.K. Office for National Statistics estimated the United Kingdom’s mid-2024 population at 69,281,400. |
| The country involved is one of the United States’ best overseas trading partners | Checks out | The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the United Kingdom remained the United States’ largest trading partner based on total services trade in 2023. |
| The country involved has more than $3 trillion in annual output | Checks out | World Bank data puts the United Kingdom’s 2024 GDP at approximately $3.69 trillion in current U.S. dollars. |
| The United Kingdom decided to mess with a massively profitable American company | Overstated | APA’s 2024 Form 10-K says U.K. tax levies and regulatory obligations made further North Sea investment uneconomic and led the company to plan production cessation before 2030; the underlying policy dispute is real, while “mess with” and “massively profitable” are promotional characterizations. |
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