11 Most Promising Long-Term Stocks According to Analysts

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9. HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS)

10-Year Revenue CAGR: 36.63%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 73

Average Upside Potential as of April 21: 50.36%

HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) provides a cloud-based CRM platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. This CRM platform includes Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Content Hub, Operations Hub, and Commerce Hub. It also provides professional services to educate and train customers on how to utilize its CRM platform.

The company has an AI-first approach. This is exemplified by the Content Hub, which is its AI-driven hub that became the fastest-growing one in 2024. For 2025, the company is positioning itself as the leading AI-first customer platform. The roll-out of Breeze Intelligence highlights HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS)’s focus on AI. This is a competitively-priced product that integrates GenAI and data offerings, and reached 75,000+ weekly active users in Q4 2024.

On March 19, Bernstein initiated coverage on the stock with a $693 price target and a Market Perform rating because of the company’s innovations in AI-driven automation. HubSpot Inc.’s (NYSE:HUBS) AI agent ecosystem includes platforms like Agent.AI. This platform helps consolidate structured and unstructured data for AI agents. In just 6 months, the user base for Agent.AI increased 10x from 50,000 to ~500,000.

TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Focus Growth Strategy stated the following regarding HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:

“Among the wide variety of Information Technology companies, we prefer critical system providers, specialized component designers, systems that improve productivity or efficiency for their clients, and others that are growing their shares of corporate IT budgets. Another addition to the sector was HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS), a cloud-based customer relationship management platform provider. Its execution has been stellar, with a best-in-class software product driven by a robust innovation engine, a unified underlying data architecture platform, and a focus on the small-to-mid business market where we see high potential for productivity improvements from Generative AI innovation, They subsequently reported a strong third quarter earnings report was highlighted by billings growth and the new business backlog has accelerated. HubSpot added 10,000 net new customers in the quarter.”

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