We Did The Math QQQE Can Go To $108
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Mar 04 2025
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Source: NASDAQ.COM
ETF Analyst Target Price Insights: The Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares ETF (QQQE) has an implied analyst target price of $108.50, indicating an 18.25% upside from its current trading price of $91.75.
Individual Stock Upside Potential: Notable underlying holdings such as Arm Holdings, Tesla, and Zscaler show significant potential for growth, with expected price increases of 36.63%, 21.65%, and 21.36% respectively, compared to their recent prices.
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Analyst Views on ARM
Wall Street analysts forecast ARM stock price to fall
24 Analyst Rating
19 Buy
4 Hold
1 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 315.280
Low
120.00
Averages
160.58
High
201.00
Current: 315.280
Low
120.00
Averages
160.58
High
201.00
About ARM
Arm Holdings plc is a United Kingdom-based company. The Company is engaged in the design of central processing units (CPUs) and compute platforms for semiconductor chips. It develops and licenses CPU products and related technology. Its cloud and data center solutions include Arm AGI CPU and Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems. The Arm Agentic Generalized Infrastructure (AGI) CPU is a production-ready system on a chip (SoC) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, delivering compute at scale. The Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) are pre-validated, performance-optimized compute platforms designed to accelerate infrastructure silicon development. The Company's primary markets include smartphone applications, processors and other chips used in mobile phones, consumer electronics, networking equipment, cloud and data center servers, automotive applications, Internet of Things (loT) and other embedded computing devices.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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