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Analyst price target

useful, but only a supplement · Valuation — what a company is actually worth

In plain English

The average of what Wall Street analysts think a stock will be worth in about 12 months.

What it tells you — and why the app leans on it lightly

It’s a handy sanity check, but it’s consensus — the crowd’s view — so relying on it can’t help you beat the crowd, and sell-side targets run systematically optimistic. The app deliberately treats its own calculations (DCF, growth, trend) as the driver and the analyst target as a 30–40% supplement, with a 15% haircut when it’s the only number available. The whole design principle: our calculations lead, consensus only confirms.

The calculation
app value blend = 0.6 × our-DCF upside + 0.4 × analyst upside
(if the analyst target is the only input, its upside is first cut 15%)
What each piece means
upside
— how far above today’s price a value estimate sits, in %
haircut
— a deliberate trim to a number known to run optimistic
Dig deeper
See it run on live stocks →Weekly Monitor computes this on ~1,000 names — free, in your browser, every formula shown. Nothing here is advice.
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