Stocks with 10%+ Upside
Attempting to find winners in the stock market is always tricky. While we encourage students to carry out their own research, we also recommend taking a look at what the analyst community are saying.
The Role of Stock Analysts
Stock analysts are financial professionals with expertise in economics, accounting, or finance. Many hold advanced degrees like MBAs or certifications such as Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). They typically work for investment banks, brokerage firms, asset management companies, or independent research firms.
Stock analysts play a critical role in the investment ecosystem, helping investors make informed decisions about buying, holding, or selling stocks. These professionals specialize in assessing the financial health and growth potential of companies, providing recommendations based on their findings.
Stock Analysts Objective
Most analysts are employed by investment banks, brokerage firms or hedge funds. They publish research to help clients make trading decisions, inform their own trading decisions, drive trading volume and build relationships.
As their overall objective is to increase trading activity within their firm you should keep that in mind when using analyst recommendations in your own investment decisions.
Our Criteria
While we like analysts we are going to supplement their recommendations with some of our own criteria. This is mainly to ensure we focus on established stocks with good trading activity and also stocks where the upside being forecast by the analyst has already begun.
| Market Cap of the stock is above $2 billion | We are only interested in stocks of Mid size and above |
| Stock Prive is above the 20 day SMA | This is a momentum indicator suggesting the price is currently rising |
| 20 Day SMA is above the 50 Day SMA | This is a momentum indicator suggesting a price rising trend is forming |