Analyst Ratings & Price Targets
What Wall Street's sell-side analysts collectively think this stock is worth, and how much weight that actually deserves.
Sell-side analysts (employed by banks and brokerages, not the company itself) publish both a rating — Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Sell, or Strong Sell — and a specific 12-month price target for most widely-covered stocks. InsiderWolf aggregates these into a consensus rating and a target range (low, mean, high) shown directly on every ticker page.
| Value | Implied view | |
|---|---|---|
| Low target | $85 | The most bearish analyst covering the stock |
| Mean target | $118 | The average across all covering analysts |
| High target | $150 | The most bullish analyst covering the stock |
Analyst targets are informed opinions, not guarantees, and they carry real, documented biases: sell-side analysts as a group are consistently more likely to publish Buy ratings than Sell ratings (a Sell rating can strain the bank's other business relationships with the company being covered), and targets tend to chase the stock's own recent price rather than lead it. None of that makes them worthless — a wide spread between the low and high target, like the $85-$150 range above, is a genuinely useful signal of how much disagreement or uncertainty exists — but it's worth knowing the bias going in.
- The spread between low and high target often matters more than the mean alone — a narrow range signals broad analyst agreement, a wide one signals real uncertainty about the company's prospects.
- Ratings and targets get revised after news breaks, not before — they describe analysts' current view, not a prediction that pre-empts events.
- Consensus ratings are also skewed by which analysts choose to cover a stock at all — thinly-covered, smaller companies can show a consensus based on just 2-3 opinions, versus dozens for a large, widely-followed one.