Top Rated IT Stocks: The article highlights top-rated Information Technology stocks according to Validea's Growth Investor model, which focuses on growth stocks with strong earnings and sales growth, reasonable valuations, and low debt.
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT): Microsoft is rated 85% based on its fundamentals and valuation, indicating strong interest. It operates in software development and offers a range of products across various segments including productivity, cloud services, and personal computing.
Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO): FICO has a rating of 77%, focusing on applied analytics software to enhance operational decisions through predictive analytics and data science, operating in two main segments: Scores and Software.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSM) and Shopify Inc (SHOP): Both companies also received ratings of 77%. TSM specializes in integrated circuit manufacturing while Shopify provides e-commerce solutions for businesses globally, enabling them to manage sales across multiple channels.
Wall Street analysts forecast FICO stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for FICO is 2070 USD with a low forecast of 1700 USD and a high forecast of 2400 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
11 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast FICO stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for FICO is 2070 USD with a low forecast of 1700 USD and a high forecast of 2400 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
8 Buy
3 Hold
0 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 1556.950
Low
1700
Averages
2070
High
2400
Current: 1556.950
Low
1700
Averages
2070
High
2400
Jefferies
NULL
to
Buy
maintain
2026-01-16
Reason
Jefferies
Price Target
AI Analysis
2026-01-16
maintain
NULL
to
Buy
Reason
Jefferies raised the firm's price target on FICO to $2,200 from $2,100 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. The firm, which believes fears around regulatory uncertainty, the threat of market share loss from VantageScore, and concerns around the runway for further price increases will pass within the next 12-18 months, projects FICO can generate at least a 20%-30% adjusted EPS compound annual growth rate over the next three to five years, the analyst tells investors.
Clear Street
Owen Lau
Buy
maintain
$1,914
2025-12-22
Reason
Clear Street
Owen Lau
Price Target
$1,914
2025-12-22
maintain
Buy
Reason
Clear Street analyst Owen Lau keeps a Buy rating on FICO with a $1,914 price target after the company announced the addition of both Cotality and Ascend Companies to the FICO Mortgage Direct License Program. The news "signals good progress" for the implementation of the program, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Clear Street believes more will join the program in the coming months. FICO has actively engaged with partners representing approximately 90% of U.S. mortgage volume, the firm adds.
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Wells Fargo
Jason Haas
Overweight
maintain
$2,400
2025-11-11
Reason
Wells Fargo
Jason Haas
Price Target
$2,400
2025-11-11
maintain
Overweight
Reason
After FHFA director Bill Pulte announced that he is reviewing a deal on implementing Fair Isaac's new credit score, FICO 10T, Wells Fargo analyst Jason Haas view this as "an incremental positive" that could strengthen FICO's "already dominant" position in credit scoring given the model's improved predictive accuracy. The firm maintains an Overweight rating and $2,400 price target on FICO shares.
JPMorgan
Alexander Hess
Neutral
maintain
2025-11-06
Reason
JPMorgan
Alexander Hess
Price Target
2025-11-06
maintain
Neutral
Reason
JPMorgan analyst Alexander Hess raised the firm's price target on FICO to $1,825 from $1,750 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. The company reported solid fiscal Q4 results and guided conservatively, the analyst tells investors in a research note.
About FICO
Fair Isaac Corporation is an applied analytics software company. The Company is focused on using predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. The Company operates through two segments: Scores and Software. The Scores segment includes the Company's business-to-business scoring solutions and services which give its clients access to predictive credit and other scores. This segment includes its business-to-consumer scoring solutions, including its myFICO.com subscription offerings. The Company’s Software segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for a specific type of business need or process, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection and marketing as well as associated professional services. This segment includes FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software.
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.
