Best stocks to buy now

Updated 2026-07-08

Universe : 🏛️ S&P 500 🎯 JPI Fair — the balance (recommended)
The top 20 stocks where ≥2 sector-reliable analysts (≥55% hit rate, beat their sector) are bullish, ranked by median target. 11-year backtest: +26%/yr vs +12.6% S&P 500 → $100k ≈ $946k, ratio 0.91. The most robust. Still a bet, not a guarantee.

💡 Many of these stocks are down over 12 months — that's expected: the method targets upside (gap to target), so it leans toward beaten-down names. In the backtest, ~half the picks rebounded +38%/yr on average the following year. ⚠️ But it varies a lot by year — best used as a satellite, not your whole portfolio.

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Method

The top 20 stocks to buy now

# ↕	Stock ↕	Price ↕	Reliable analysts' target i ▼	Reliability (best analyst) i ↕
1	CRWD CrowdStrike	$194.62	🎯 median $662.5 +240% · 6 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	74.4% profitable Truist Securities · Tech · 195 calls
2	CSGP CoStar Group	$29.87	🎯 median $63 +111% · 4 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	81.8% profitable Benchmark · Real estate · 11 calls
3	ALB Albemarle Corporation	$129.02	🎯 median $257 +99% · 5 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	65.4% profitable UBS · Materials · 162 calls
4	ORCL Oracle Corporation	$141.6	🎯 median $275 +94% · 15 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	81.4% profitable Wedbush · Tech · 360 calls
5	CTSH Cognizant	$43.94	🎯 median $80 +82% · 5 reliable analysts Market consensus : Hold	81.4% profitable Wedbush · Tech · 360 calls
6	GDDY GoDaddy	$89.32	🎯 median $154.5 +73% · 2 reliable analysts Market consensus : Hold	68% profitable JP Morgan · Tech · 629 calls
7	LDOS Leidos	$108.57	🎯 median $187.5 +73% · 4 reliable analysts Market consensus : Hold	80.1% profitable Truist Securities · Industry · 196 calls
8	COIN Coinbase	$163.51	🎯 median $270 +65% · 5 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	72.2% profitable Cantor Fitzgerald · Finance · 18 calls
9	TSCO Tractor Supply	$30.43	🎯 median $50 +64% · 8 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	68.6% profitable Piper Sandler · Cons. disc. · 277 calls
10	MU Micron Technology	$938.38	🎯 median $1525 +63% · 21 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	81.4% profitable Wedbush · Tech · 360 calls
11	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$43.47	🎯 median $70 +61% · 10 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	75% profitable Loop Capital · Tech · 120 calls
12	LITE Lumentum	$698.91	🎯 median $1115 +60% · 4 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	72.3% profitable Rosenblatt · Tech · 527 calls
13	BSX Boston Scientific	$45.3	🎯 median $72 +59% · 14 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	72.1% profitable Jefferies · Health · 376 calls
14	ACN Accenture	$142.14	🎯 median $226 +59% · 9 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	70.9% profitable Wells Fargo · Tech · 530 calls
15	INTU Intuit	$281.17	🎯 median $446.5 +59% · 12 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	71.1% profitable Citigroup · Tech · 823 calls
16	ZTS Zoetis	$76.29	🎯 median $121 +59% · 2 reliable analysts Market consensus : Hold	67% profitable JP Morgan · Health · 349 calls
17	NVDA Nvidia	$196.93	🎯 median $310 +57% · 21 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	81.4% profitable Wedbush · Tech · 360 calls
18	NFLX Netflix	$76.18	🎯 median $119 +56% · 6 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	78.5% profitable Oppenheimer · Comm. · 172 calls
19	OMC Omnicom Group	$80.84	🎯 median $125.5 +55% · 2 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	61.8% profitable Goldman Sachs · Comm. · 136 calls
20	SNDK Sandisk	$1617.7	🎯 median $2500 +55% · 8 reliable analysts Market consensus : Buy	71.1% profitable Citigroup · Tech · 823 calls

Educational selection, not investment advice. Recomputed Yahoo data (point-in-time backtest). Past performance does not predict the future. The method →