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Analysts See Double-Digit Upside for These 3 StocksReported by Ryan Hasson. First Published: 9/17/2026. 
Key Points
- Nasdaq, Arista Networks, and Mastercard each hold an outright Buy consensus with double-digit implied upside despite very different business models and performance trends.
- Nasdaq offers the widest upside potential at roughly 24% despite an 8% stock decline this year, supported by its growing Verafin data and crime-detection business.
- Arista Networks has surged more than 47% in 2025 on AI networking demand, while Mastercard's steady compounding and strong earnings make it an attractive entry point.
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Price targets aren't promises or certainties, but when a group of Wall Street analysts assigns a stock a Buy rating and sees meaningful upside to its consensus target, it is worth paying attention to their outlook. The three names below all share that profile. Each has an outright Buy consensus, ranks highly on MarketBeat's top-rated stocks list, and offers double-digit implied upside from its current trading level. What makes the trio interesting is how different they are from one another, spanning financial exchanges, AI networking and global payments, yet all landing in the same favorable spot with the analyst community. Nasdaq: A Laggard the Street Still Believes InNasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is best known for the exchange that bears its name, but the modern company is far more than just a trading venue. It has built a growing business in market data, indexing and anti-financial-crime technology through its Verafin division, giving it recurring, software-like revenue streams alongside its traditional listings and trading operations.
The stock has struggled this year, falling about 8%, which makes the analyst optimism particularly notable. Nasdaq holds a Buy consensus from 11 analysts, and the average price target of $110.30 implies nearly 24% upside from current levels, the highest of this group. It ranks in the 99th percentile of MarketBeat's finance-sector rankings, pays a strong and growing dividend, and recently expanded its Verafin crime-detection partnership to cover both cash and crypto transactions. From a technical perspective, the stock remains in a higher-timeframe uptrend, although more recent price action has been consistent with the overall market: range-bound and choppy. The stock is stuck in a broad range, with $76 acting as support and $100 serving as the all-important level that would need to be cleared for upward momentum to take hold. Arista Networks: The Momentum Name of the GroupArista Networks (NYSE: ANET) sits at the opposite end of the performance spectrum. The company builds high-performance Ethernet switches and networking software that connect the massive data centers powering artificial intelligence, and demand has been surging. As AI clusters scale to hundreds of thousands of accelerators, the networking layer that enables those chips to communicate has become mission-critical, and Arista is one of its clear leaders. That positioning has driven the stock up more than 47% this year, by far the best performance of the three. Even after that run, the analyst community sees room for further gains, with a Buy consensus from 23 analysts and an average price target of $227.80 implying roughly 15% additional upside. The fundamentals underpinning the move are genuinely impressive, with net margins near 38% and projected earnings growth above 23%. The potential red flag, however, is valuation: Arista trades at more than 50 times forward earnings, a premium that demands stellar execution. But for a business this profitable and supported by such a strong structural tailwind, the Street clearly believes the growth justifies the price. Mastercard: A Quality Compounder on SaleMastercard (NYSE: MA) is one of the highest-quality businesses in the entire financial sector, yet its stock has gone essentially nowhere this year. That stagnation is what makes it interesting. The global payments network operates a near-unassailable business model, taking a small cut of an enormous and growing volume of electronic transactions worldwide while generating exceptional profitability. The company posted Q2 2026 earnings on July 30, beating the consensus estimate by 27 cents, while quarterly revenue rose more than 14% year over year to $9.28 billion. MA has a Buy consensus from 31 analysts, the deepest coverage in the group, and an average price target of $666.64, pointing to about 17% upside. With a low beta of 0.74, it also offers a relatively smoother ride than most, a rare combination of defensive stability and durable growth. After a year of treading water while earnings continued to climb, the valuation has quietly become more reasonable, and analysts appear to view the current level as an attractive entry point for a proven compounder. The Common ThreadThese are three very different businesses with one shared conclusion from Wall Street: Each has room to run. Nasdaq offers the widest implied upside, Arista brings the strongest momentum and growth, and Mastercard provides the steadiest quality at a reasonable price. Of course, analyst targets are only one input, and none of these names is without risk. That is particularly clear in Arista's premium valuation and Nasdaq's recent underperformance. However, when a stock combines an outright Buy rating with double-digit upside potential, it at least justifies a closer look.
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