By Keithen Drury
Publication Date: 2026-03-03 20:24:00
Wall Street analysts publish their one-year price targets for the companies that they cover, and retail investors can use that information to source ideas for stocks that have unusually high upside potential. Normally, the larger a company becomes, the harder it is for that company to grow at a rapid percentage rate, so finding stocks in the trillion-dollar-plus market cap range with big upside isn’t common. However, according to the consensus among analysts, two megacaps do have huge upside in the near term: Nvidia (NVDA 1.29%) and Microsoft (MSFT +1.32%).
According to Yahoo! Finance, Nvidia and Microsoft have average one-year price targets of $256 and $596, respectively. From their closing prices on Monday, those targets indicate about a 40% upside for the chipmaker and a 50% upside for the diversified tech giant. With the long-term annualized average return of the market hovering around 10%, that suggests that these two stocks are no-brainer buys.
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