Best stock picks for 2023: Here are Wall Street analysts' most heavily favored choices

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Best stock picks for 2023: Here are analysts' most heavily favored choices

Following a sharp and sustained rise in interest rates, U.S. stocks have taken a broad beating this year.Below are lists of analysts’ favorite stocks among the benchmark S&P 500 SPX, the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index MID and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index SML that are expected to rise the most over the next year. Those lists are followed by a summary of opinions of all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA.

Wall Street’s large-cap favorites Among the S&P 500, 92 stocks are rated “buy” or the equivalent by at least 75% of analysts working for brokerage firms. That number itself is interesting — at the end of 2021, 93 of the S&P 500 had this distinction. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has declined 16% in 2022, with all sectors down except for energy, which has risen 53%, and the utilities sector, which his risen 1% .

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN are expected to soar 50% over the next year, following a decline of 46% so far in 2022. If the shares were to rise 50% from here to the price target of $136.02, they would still be 18% below their closing price of 166.72 at the end of 2021.You can see the earnings estimates and more for any stock in this article by clicking on its ticker.

 

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The general belief amongst CEOs and strategists is that we’re hitting a deeper recession in 2023. First inflation rate contraction and then earnings. Waiting on earnings for capitulation.

Riiiiiiigggghhhhhhht! Because they have steered me right in 2022, or ever for that matter.

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