Here are Thursday’s biggest calls on Wall Street:
RBC said it likes the defense engineering company’s management.
“Our Outperform thesis is underpinned by continued strength and execution in Leidos’ Health Services business, strong defense portfolio positioning, and increased confidence under CEO Tom Bell and the revised strategic direction.”
Bank of America said it’s sticking with the stock following earnings.
“Q2 results are not enough to dispel the bear case that Salesforce’s business could be under pressure from Agentic AI. However, backlog is growing a steady 11% before material contribution from AI/Agentforce.”
Citi said it’s sticking with the stock but that it could take a breather.
“We expect NVDA stock to take a breather after a strong run in the past six months and see Jensen Huang’s 10/28 GTC keynote as the next catalyst.”
Moffett upgraded Apple and says many risks are being resolved.
“North of 30x next year’s earnings is still, in our view, too rich for any company with good but not-great earnings growth. But as risks to fundamentals resolve, we don’t believe that a sell thesis solely supported by valuation concerns is justified.”
The firm raised its price target to $342 per share from $304.
“We view AVGO set-up heading into its JulQ-25 earnings report (scheduled for 4-Sep after the market close), with positive fundamentals being partially offset by high expectations.”
Barclays said it sees more upside with Amazon Web Services.
“We see potentially 200bps or so of upside to consensus AWS revenue growth in 4Q25.”
BMO said it’s sticking with the tech giant.
“Our stock view remains that MSFT is one of our favorite names driven by 1) broad portfolio that includes cloud leadership, 2) largely consistent and effective execution, and 3) reasonable valuation, though admittedly not inexpensive.”
The firm said it’s sticking with its long term hold rating, but that it sees several positive catalysts in the near term.
“Our outreach to the investor base recently suggests solid interest in Mobileye’s autonomy efforts and a strong showing at IAA [International Motor Show] should help boost sentiment.”
Morgan Stanley said it’s bullish heading into Apple’s iPhone event on September 9.
“Big picture, conservative FY26 Consensus growth expectations could make the launch a positive catalyst, for once.”
Wolfe said the backdrop for Tesla in 2026 is uncertain.
“But we are less certain into 2026, as TSLA faces a challenging fundamental backdrop”
Seaport said its supply chain checks indicate progress is slowing with its AI accelerator business.
“Our recent conversations across the supply chain point to AMD experiencing slowing progress with its AI accelerator business. We think this makes it increasingly challenging for them to meet over-high expectations this year. We are lowering our estimates and taking our rating to Neutral from Buy.”