10 AI Stocks Making Waves on Wall Street

1. Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO)

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Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is a technology company known for its custom chip offerings and networking assets. On January 17, Barclays analyst Tom O’Malley raised the firm’s price target on Broadcom to $260 from $205 and kept an “Overweight” rating on the shares. The rating has been issued as part of a 2025 outlook for the semiconductors and semiconductor capital equipment sector. The firm has recently rolled out its numbers for the year 2026, stating how 2025 is going to be a year defined as the artificial intelligence “have and have-nots”. Barclays is more selective in its AI preferences and prefers owning stocks with proprietary serializer/deserializer technology, with Broadcom fitting the criteria. Oppenheimer is another firm that has recently rated Broadcom as one of the top semiconductor stocks for 2025. According to The Motley Fool, the rating upgrade comes the day after TSMC, Broadcom’s fabrication partner, reported earnings that were stronger than anticipated. The earnings indicate how AI-driven demand for chip making is as robust as ever, which is equally good news for other semiconductor stocks such as Broadcom.

While we acknowledge the potential of AVGO as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AVGO but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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