While most of Wall Street focuses on large-cap and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the biggest public companies, especially the technology giants, trade in the hundreds, all the way up to over $1,000 per share or more. At those steep prices, it is difficult to get any decent share count leverage.
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Many investors, especially more aggressive traders, look at lower-priced stocks as a way not only to make some good money but to get a higher share count. That can really help the decision-making process, especially when you are on to a winner, as you can always sell half and keep half.
Skeptics of low-priced shares should remember that at one point Amazon, Apple and Netflix traded in the single digits. Nvidia, which has exploded higher on AI semiconductor chips, traded under $10 for years. One stock we featured over the years, Zynga, was purchased by Take-Two Interactive. Cogent Biosciences, which we featured last March, has tripled since then.
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We screened our 24/7 Wall St. research database looking for smaller cap companies that could offer patient investors some huge returns for the rest of 2023 and beyond. While these five stocks are rated Buy and have a ton of Wall Street coverage, it is important to remember that no single analyst report should be used as a sole basis for any buying or selling decision.
Adaptive Biotechnologies
Cathie Wood has bought almost 10 million shares of this stock for her Ark Genomic Revolution fund. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (NASDAQ: ADPT) is a commercial-stage company that develops an immune medicine platform for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases.
The company offers immunoSEQ, a platform and core immunosequencing product that is used to answer translational research questions, as well as to discover new prognostic and diagnostic signals. It also provides clonoSEQ, a clinical diagnostic product for the detection and monitoring of minimal residual disease in patients with multiple myeloma, B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, as well as available as a CLIA-validated laboratory developed test for patients with other lymphoid cancers.
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In addition, Adaptive Biotechnologies offers a pipeline of clinical products and services that are used for the diagnosing, monitoring and treatment of diseases, such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. It offers products and services for life sciences research, clinical diagnostics and drug discovery applications. The company has strategic collaborations with Genentech for the development, manufacture and commercialization of neoantigen directed T cell therapies for the treatment of a range of cancers and with Microsoft to develop diagnostic tests for the early detection of various diseases from a single blood test.
Piper Sandler has a $15 target price on Adaptive Biotechnologies stock. The consensus target is $12.29, and shares last traded on Friday at $6.04.
Genius Sports
This sports-betting-related stock just signed a big-time partnership with the NFL, and Cathie Wood owns over 5 million shares. Genius Sports Ltd. (NYSE: GENI) develops and sells technology-led products and services to the sports, sports betting and sports media industries.
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The company offers technology infrastructure for the collection, integration and distribution of live data of sports leagues; streaming solutions, comprising of technology, automatic production and distribution for sports to commercialize video footage of their games; and end-to-end integrity services to sports leagues, such as full-time active monitoring technology, which uses mathematical algorithms to identify and flag suspicious betting activity in global betting markets, as well as full suite of online and offline educational and consultancy services.
Genius Sports also provides live sports data collection; pre-game and in-game odds feeds; risk management services, including customer profiling, monitoring of incoming bets, automated acceptance and rejection of bets, and limit setting; live streaming services; creation, delivery and measurement services for personalized online marketing campaigns; and fan engagement widgets for digital publishers that offer live game statistics and betting-related content.
The Credit Suisse price target is $8, and Genius Sports stock has a $7.50 consensus target. The stock closed at $7.48 on Friday.
KeyCorp
Shares of this top regional player are quite cheap at current levels for investors looking at financials. KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY | KEY Price Prediction) operates as the bank holding company for KeyBank National Association, which provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses.
KeyCorp also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets banner.
KeyCorp stock investors receive an 8.77% dividend. Wells Fargo’s $17 price target is higher than the consensus target of $12.76 and share price of $9.59 last seen on Friday.
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Lucid
This electric vehicle (EV) company could be in the sights of a larger car maker. Lucid Group Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) is an automotive company focused on the design, development, customer experience, sale and service of EVs, as well as electric powertrains for Formula E and energy storage systems, starting with its Air sedan, to be followed by additional models through 2030.
The company’s vehicles are manufactured off of Lucid Electric Advanced Platform (LEAP), a skateboard architecture that will underpin numerous models, and offered to consumers through a direct sales and service model.
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While the EV industry has become a do-or-die proposition, Aston Martin recently announced it would be taking up with Lucid Motors for future battery EV development and stepping away from Mercedes-Benz’s EV technology.
Needham has set a $10 target price, and the consensus target is $8.30. Lucid Group stock closed at $7.45 on Friday.
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908 Devices
This is another Cathie Wood portfolio stock that also has the potential to be a huge winner. 908 Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: MASS) provides various purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spectrometry (Mass Spec) devices to interrogate unknown and invisible materials in life sciences research, bioprocessing, industrial biotech, forensics and adjacent markets. It operates in the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific and elsewhere.
The company’s products include:
- MX908, a handheld, battery-powered and Mass Spec device that is designed for rapid analysis of gas, liquid and solid materials of unknown identity
- Rebel, a small desktop analyzer that provides real-time information on the extracellular environment in bioprocesses
- Maven and Trace C2, an online device for bioprocess monitoring and control
- ZipChip solution, a plug-and-play, high-resolution separation platform that optimizes Mass Spec sample analysis
908 Devices stock has a $20 target price at SVB Leerink, and the consensus target is $17. On Friday, shares closed at $6.87.
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These are five stocks for aggressive investors looking to get share count leverage on companies that have sizable upside potential. While not suited for all investors, they are not penny stocks with absolutely no track record or liquidity, and major Wall Street firms have research coverage.
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