Joel South, Author at 24/7 Wall St.

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Wall Street Calls Snowflake a Top AI Infrastructure Pick

Benchmark initiated coverage of Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW | SNOW Price Prediction) with a Buy rating and a $190 price target, framing the cloud data platform as a top infrastructure pick in what the firm sees…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wells Fargo Adds Ollie’s Bargain Outlet to Tactical List With $130 Target

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet (NASDAQ:OLLI | OLLI Price Prediction) has been caught in a meaningful selloff, but Wells Fargo analyst Edward Kelly sees the weakness as an opportunity. Kelly added Ollie’s to the firm’s Q2…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wall Street Turns Bullish on Sempra Energy: Wells Fargo Sets $115 Price Target

Sempra (NYSE:SRE | SRE Price Prediction) is getting a fresh look from Wall Street. Wells Fargo analyst Shahriar Pourreza added Sempra to the firm’s Q2 Tactical Ideas List with an Overweight rating and a…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Nike’s China Reset Will Take 4 Quarters — Wall Street Is Done Waiting

Nike (NYSE:NKE | NKE Price Prediction) stock is absorbing a wave of analyst downgrades and price target cuts following fiscal Q3 results, which the company reported on March 31. The stock fell 14.44% in early…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Microsoft’s Pullback From October Highs Is a Buying Opportunity, According to Wall Street

Benchmark initiated coverage of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) with a Buy rating and $450 price target, arguing that the stock’s steep retreat from its 2025 highs represents a compelling long-term entry point.…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wall Street Says Buy CrowdStrike And Watch It Gain $100 This Year

Benchmark analyst Yi Fu Lee initiated coverage of CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ:CRWD | CRWD Price Prediction) with a Buy rating and a $500 price target, arguing the cybersecurity platform leader has a clear path to…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Sonoco Products Receives New Buy Rating From Wall Street and a $63 Price Target

Deutsche Bank analyst Hillary Cacanando initiated coverage of Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON | SON Price Prediction) with a Buy rating and a $63 price target as part of a broader packaging sector launch. The call…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Wall Street Stays Is Bullish on Atlassian Despite KeyBanc’s Price Target Cut

Atlassian Corp. (NASDAQ:TEAM | TEAM Price Prediction) received a price target cut from KeyBanc on Wednesday, with the firm trimming its target to $130 from $170 while maintaining an Overweight rating. The revision follows…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Palantir Needs 60%-70% Annual Revenue Growth to Justify Its Price

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR | PLTR Price Prediction) received a Hold initiation from Benchmark analyst Yi Fu Lee. The core concern: at current prices, the stock requires sustained 60% to 70% annual revenue growth to…

Joel South · 7 months ago

DA Davidson Upgrades Rivian From Underperform — Here’s What Still Has to Go Right

DA Davidson has upgraded Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) to Neutral from Underperform, citing valuation after a sharp pullback in the stock. The firm kept its price target unchanged at $14,…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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5 Stocks That Win Big From NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion AI Ecosystem Expansion

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) dropped a catalyst on March 31 that reordered the AI infrastructure investment conversation: a $2 billion direct investment in Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) paired with a deeper NVLink Fusion…

Joel South · 7 months ago

An infographic titled '10-Year Investment Returns: Micron Technology vs. Western Digital' on a dark blue background with glowing lines. The left side shows Micron Technology (MU) with a deep blue and gold upward-curving graph from 2016 to 2026. It indicates a $1,000 investment in 2016 grew to $29,919 today, a +2,892% return, driven by 'AI HBM & DRAM SURGE'. The S&P 500 is noted at +205%. The right side shows Western Digital (WDC) with a red and orange volatile graph peaking sharply towards 2026. It indicates a $1,000 investment in 2016 grew to $8,214 today, a +721% return, under 'HDD & SPINOFF RECOVERY'. A '1-Year Surge: +522%' is also noted. Both charts are labeled with years 2016 and 2026 on the horizontal axis. The bottom text reads 'THE AI INFRASTRUCTURE BET: MICRON & THE MEMORY SUPERCYCLE'. The date 'MARCH 31, 2026' is in the bottom right.

Had You Invested $1,000 in Micron or Western Digital 10 Years Ago, Here’s How Much You’d Have Today

Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU | MU Price Prediction) and Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) have spent a decade riding one of the most volatile cycles in technology. Both sit at the intersection of memory and storage, and…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Fed Reserve Board Chair Powell Announces Interest Rate Decision

Fed Chair Powell Warns: Another Supply Shock Is Coming

Jerome Powell delivered a pointed warning that markets cannot afford to ignore: “Now we have another supply shock coming.” The Fed Chair laid out a sequence that should sharpen every investor’s attention heading into…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Cramer: CoreWeave’s $8.5B Financing Is a ‘Landmark’ Deal That AI Investors Can’t Ignore

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) grabbed the spotlight on CNBC’s Stop Trading Tuesday morning, with Jim Cramer calling the company’s latest financing round a genuine watershed moment for AI infrastructure. “My god, there’s so much happening this…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wall Street Split on GE Aerospace as Daiwa Sets $301 Target and Flags High Expectations

Daiwa initiated coverage of GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE | GE Price Prediction) with a Neutral rating and a $301 price target — a stance that lands well below where most of Wall Street is…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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JPMorgan Says Palo Alto Networks’ $10M Insider Buy Is a ‘Substantial Vote of Confidence’

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW | PANW Price Prediction) is drawing renewed institutional attention after CEO Nikesh Arora made a significant open-market stock purchase, prompting JPMorgan to call it a “substantial vote of confidence” in…

Joel South · 7 months ago

Wall Street Price Prediction: ServiceNow Price Target Set at $185

ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW | NOW Price Prediction) received a price target cut from Wells Fargo on Tuesday, with the firm trimming its target to $185 from $225 while maintaining an Overweight rating. The stock currently…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wall Street Pro Tells Investors to Buy Mastercard Stock

Loop Capital analyst Dominick Gabriele initiated coverage of Mastercard (NYSE:MA | MA Price Prediction) with a Buy rating and a $631 price target, stepping into a stock that has pulled back sharply from its…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wingstop Stock Near 52-Week Low as Wells Fargo Trims Target to $225

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING | WING Price Prediction) is getting a fresh look from Wall Street after a steep selloff, but the near-term picture remains cloudy. Wells Fargo cut its price target on Wingstop stock to…

Joel South · 7 months ago

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Wall Street Cuts Lincoln Electric as Industrial Recovery Already Priced In

Jefferies downgraded Lincoln Electric Holdings (NASDAQ:LECO | LECO Price Prediction) from Buy to Hold on March 31, 2026, cutting its price target from $350 to $280. The core argument: the industrial recovery is already…

Joel South · 7 months ago