Where Wall Street sees the most upside right now (July 2026)
Across ~500 US large caps, these are the buy-rated stocks trading furthest below the average analyst price target, and what that gap does and doesn't mean.
Every trading day, sell-side analysts publish 12-month price targets for the stocks they cover. Individually, a target is one firm's opinion. Aggregated, the gap between a stock's price and its average target is a rough map of where Wall Street's expectations and the market's current price disagree the most.
We ran that screen across roughly 500 US large caps in StockRank's coverage, filtering for stocks with a buy-or-better consensus and at least 20 covering analysts so a single boutique's exuberance can't dominate the number. Here's what the data showed as of July 5, 2026.
The widest gaps to the average target
| Ticker | Company | Analysts | Consensus | Avg target | Price | Implied gap | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | ORCL | Oracle | 40 | Buy | $251.85 | $140.27 | +79.5% | | INTU | Intuit | 32 | Buy | $486.61 | $275.35 | +76.7% | | TEAM | Atlassian | 30 | Buy | $140.37 | $83.84 | +67.4% | | BSX | Boston Scientific | 29 | Buy | $75.00 | $45.14 | +66.1% | | CTSH | Cognizant | 25 | Buy | $67.54 | $41.99 | +60.9% | | NVDA | NVIDIA | 58 | Buy | $301.62 | $194.83 | +54.8% | | ADSK | Autodesk | 33 | Buy | $318.53 | $207.48 | +53.5% | | MU | Micron | 42 | Buy | $1,486.00 | $975.56 | +52.3% |
Data: analyst consensus and price targets via Yahoo Finance (delayed), aggregated by StockRank. Prices as of the July 4-5, 2026 snapshot; figures move daily.
How to read a wide gap (and how not to)
A large distance to the average target can mean two very different things, and the table can't tell you which:
- Analysts are ahead of the market. Coverage reflects fundamentals the price hasn't caught up with. That's the bullish reading.
- Analysts are behind the market. The stock fell hard and fast, and targets simply haven't been refreshed yet. After a sharp drawdown, the "upside" number is often just a stale target divided by a new, lower price.
The single best disambiguator is recency: check when the covering firms last acted. A wide gap supported by fresh reiterations and upgrades is a genuinely bullish consensus; a wide gap where the last rating action is months old is mostly a measurement artifact. Every StockRank ticker page shows the full dated history of rating actions for exactly this reason. See, for example, NVDA's rating actions or ORCL's.
Two more sanity checks worth applying:
- Analyst count. We required 20+ analysts here, but even within that band, a 58-analyst consensus (NVDA) is a very different statement from a 20-analyst one.
- Firm quality. Not all ratings are equal. StockRank computes each firm's historical hit rate (the share of its buy ratings that actually beat the S&P 500 over the following 12 months) and shows it next to every rating. The Top Firms leaderboard ranks them.
The compliance footnote that matters
Price targets are the published opinions of the named third-party firms, not StockRank's view and not a prediction that will necessarily be realized. Historical analyst accuracy does not guarantee future results. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation. It's a factual snapshot of what Wall Street currently publishes, organized so you can do your own research faster.
Explore the live version of this screen (filterable by sector, consensus, and analyst count) in the StockRank screener.