Street Calls of the Week

Author Garrett Cook

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Published 06/18/2026, 05:41 AM

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Street Calls of the Week

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Datadog

What happened? On Monday, Truist upgraded Datadog Inc (NASDAQ:DDOG) to Buy with a $300 price target.

* TLDR: AI urgency drives Truist’s $300 price target.

What’s the full story? The consensus likes the stock, but they’re missing the engine under the hood. Truist did the fieldwork, and the ground reality is far more aggressive than the model-builders realize.

Corporate America isn’t panicking about how much its artificial intelligence bill costs; it’s panicking about not buying enough AI fast enough. True enterprise optimization is tomorrow’s problem. Today, the urgency to deploy completely overwhelms the urge to budget, and clients are only on step one of their agentic rollouts.

Meanwhile, increased visibility into stable frontier lab partnerships neatly defuses the most potent near-term bear argument. The structural risk is mitigated, the momentum remains firmly intact, and the firm shifts its price target to $300.

WP Carey

What happened? On Tuesday, BofA upgraded W P Carey Inc (NYSE:WPC) to Neutral with a $83 price target.

* TLDR: Portfolio simplification and lower credit risk justify a higher multiple.

What’s the full story? The consensus remains asleep on the structural shift, but the math forces a rewrite. BofA upgrades WPC to Neutral from Underperform, dragging the price objective up to $83 from $73. The mechanism is simple: the analysts slap a 16.0x multiple—up from a stale 14.0x—onto forward four-quarter AFFO estimates of $5.24.

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This isn’t arbitrary multiple expansion. Years of quiet portfolio simplification finally earn WPC a premium over its historical baseline. The company always boasted superior internal growth, but it came with a nasty habit of frequent credit events.

That structural drag is fading. WPC aggressively cleans up its legacy tenant messes, proving it can actually manage out of its own mistakes. Consequently, the analysts slash the 2026 credit loss assumption down to a manageable 50-75 basis points. The risk profile drops, the multiple expands, and the thesis normalizes.

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NeoVolta

What happened? On Wednesday, Needham initiated NeoVolta Inc (NASDAQ:NEOV) at Buy with a $8 price target.

* TLDR: Domestic battery scaling drives NeoVolta’s projected growth.

What’s the full story? The retail battery vendor is dead; long live the domestic grid-scale arbitrage. Needham initiates coverage on NeoVolta with a Buy rating and an $8.00 price target, betting entirely on a corporate pivot. The thesis hinges on Pendergrass, an 80%-owned Georgia joint venture designed to scale up to 8 GWh of IRA-advantaged, domestic capacity.

Think of it as a higher-beta, early-stage version of Fluence. It is small, unproven, and highly execution-dependent, but the regulatory tailwinds are massive if it qualifies for federal subsidies and books actual orders.

The research team models a staggering financial inflection: revenue rockets from a meager ~$14 million in FY2026 to ~$657 million by FY2028. Over that same stretch, adjusted EBITDA flips from a loss to ~$99 million. The $8.00 target implies over 300% upside, and the market isn’t even pricing in the full utility-scale transition yet.

CME Group

What happened? On Thursday, KBW upgraded CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) to Outperform with a $305 price target.

* TLDR: CME selloff overblown; volumes are quietly improving.

What’s the full story? KBW is upgrading CME to Outperform from Market-Perform. While the team expected post-1Q pressure, the recent downward acceleration creates an attractive risk/reward entry point. The panic is driven by perceived perpetual futures risk—a narrative that is wildly overblown for exchanges broadly and CME specifically, given its minimal retail exposure and ironclad equity index licenses.

Meanwhile, as the stock price capitulates, trading volumes are quietly improving. The team expects this underlying volume backdrop to accelerate into the second half of 2026, fueled by structural tailwinds in rates activity.

Markets are mispricing the downside here. CME has plummeted 17.2% since May 18, presenting an asymmetric setup for investors willing to look past the immediate noise. KBW maintains its price target at $305.

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ke le Jun 21, 2026, 08:11

Oil prices are i for a steep rise and the stockmarket will be starting off in red territory until another fake peace deal have been announced. This will go back and forth until the dems take over congress and this madness stops.

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