2 ‘Perfect 10’ Stocks the Street Thinks You Shouldn’t Ignore
Sometimes, it seems that the markets don’t know what to do. We’re seeing gains one day, losses the next, and then more gains. The Q4 earnings have been solid, which is always good to see, and while GDP has slowed, it remains positive. We’re still waiting to see how the ripples will spread from the Supreme Court’s decision on President Trump’s tariff policies.
In all, it’s a macro picture that gives support to both the bulls and the bears – and at times like this, what investors really need is a clear sign, a signal that this stock is the one to buy, and that stock is the one to avoid. Fortunately, there are plenty of such signals to choose from.
One of the best comes from the Smart Score, an AI-powered data tool from TipRanks. The Smart Score gathers and collates the volumes of raw information put out by the markets every day – and puts that information to work. It uses that data to rate every stock in the public markets – and give each one a score, based on a set of factors that is known to correlate with future outperformance. The score is set on a simple, intuitive scale of 1 to 10 – with the ‘Perfect 10’ indicating stocks that the data says are solid.
It’s a good signal. And when Wall Street’s analysts are in-line with it, putting their own ‘Buy’ recommendations on Perfect 10 stocks, that is a dual signal that should definitely be more compelling to discerning investors.
So let’s do just this. We’ve used the TipRanks database to pull up the details on two ‘Perfect 10’ stocks that are also getting high ratings from the analysts. Here they are.
Accenture (ACN)
The first ‘Perfect 10’ on today’s list is Accenture, an IT services and consulting company with a global footprint and a strong bent toward AI and data sciences. Accenture offers business and enterprise clients the services they need to reinvent the ways they remain relevant to customers. From cloud and cybersecurity to AI and data, to marketing, learning, and finance – Accenture can build all of these, and more.
To do this, Accenture brings together the combined expertise of a large, worldwide workforce, over 780,000 strong, and matches it with proprietary tech platforms and assets, and deep knowledge of the full ecosystem in today’s corporate world and its combination of digital tech and business.
Accenture, with its $121 billion market cap and global reach, has the resources to become the ‘reinvention partner of choice’ for some of today’s biggest business players. The company’s partners include such major names as SAP, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, and Salesforce.
The company has found great success in this approach, and that can be seen from its fiscal 2025 results. In that fiscal year, the last with full data on record, Accenture devoted $3.3 billion to ventures & acquisitions, research & development, and learning & development; in all, it was a large investment in the company’s own future. In addition, Accenture brought in $69.7 billion in annual revenue and returned $8.3 billion in cash to shareholders, mainly through its common-stock dividend.
In December, Accenture reported its results for fiscal 1Q26. The company generated $18.7 billion in revenue, for a 6% year-over-year increase, and beat the forecast by over $210 million. At the bottom line, the company’s non-GAAP EPS of $3.94 was up 10% year-over-year and was 22 cents per share better than expected.
Morgan Stanley’s James Faucette, in covering this stock, notes that most of any headwinds are already accounted for – and that Accenture has a sound path forward. He writes, “We think 1) market fears around potential Gen AI disruption and 2) DOGE impact are now largely baked into ACN’s current valuation at 19x FY27 EPS; further, we think M&A and ecosystem partnerships are growth levers. We believe estimates have likely bottomed and that future revisions are skewed to the upside, driven by lower interest rates and more industry clarity on AI investment path. Our growth estimates (FY26: +5%; FY27: +7% ) sit well above consensus growth figures… With a 4.5:1 Bull-Bear skew, we find ACN compelling at current valuation levels (~13% discount to S&P 500).”
Faucette’s Overweight (Buy) rating comes with a $320 price target that points to a one-year gain for the stock of 54%. (To watch Faucette’s track record, click here.)
Overall, these shares get a Moderate Buy rating from the Street’s analyst consensus, based on 17 reviews that include 12 Buys and 5 Holds. The stock is selling for $207.38 right now, and its $293.60 average target price implies a 41.5% upside by this time next year. (See ACN stock forecast.)
Broadcom, Inc. (AVGO)
Broadcom, the second ‘Perfect 10’ we’ll look at, needs little introduction. The company is one of the leading players in the valuable semiconductor industry, and, with its $1.54 trillion market cap, it has become one of the relative handful of trillion-dollar B-plus companies on Wall Street. Broadcom has built this position by being very good at what it does, and what it does is provide the leading-edge tech that makes AI work.
Specifically, Broadcom is a leader in designing and producing ASIC chips, application-specific integrated circuits. These have become an essential technology in both the AI and cloud computing fields. ASICs take customer specs and bring them to life; they are made to customer-provided specifications and needs, and can bring increased efficiencies and processing speeds to the table while also improving power consumption. These attributes compensate for the chips’ higher cost, and Broadcom has a strong customer base whose high demand provides a ready market for the products.
The best feature of Broadcom, from an investor’s perspective, is that the company has built this chip niche without ever giving up its older ‘core’ business in the field of networking components. Broadcom still produces such vital, but less applauded, items as high-end cable modems and advanced fiber optics, and holds an important place in high-tech’s networking field.
Broadcom last reported financial results for fiscal 4Q25 and beat expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Revenue came in at $18.02 billion, for solid year-over-year growth of 28%, beating expectations by $560 million. The company realized a non-GAAP EPS of $1.95, a figure that was 8 cents better than had been anticipated.
5-star analyst Tristan Gerra, from Baird, charts out a clear path for Broadcom to continue its success, saying of the company, “Raising our estimates for Broadcom on v7 upward unit momentum, driven by Google’s multiple training and inferencing engagements notably with OpenAI, Apple, and Meta using v7 in Google servers, along with shipments to Anthropic. Google will remain by far Broadcom’s largest custom ASIC customer in 2026-2027. Even as Mediatek could gain inferencing share in 2027 (assuming no execution issues), there are other share gain opportunities for Broadcom and with a five-year CAGR revenue assumption of 45%, 2030 EPS could exceed $30.”
This clearly supports Gerra’s Outperform (Buy) rating on the stock, while his price target, set at $420, suggests that AVGO shares will appreciate by 30.5% in the next 12 months. (To watch Gerra’s track record, click here.)
Broadcom, like many leading tech companies, attracts a lot of analyst attention – and the 30 recent reviews, splitting 28 to 2 in favor of Buy over Hold, give the stock its Strong Buy consensus rating. AVGO shares are currently trading for $321.7 and have an average target price of $452.32, a combination that implies a one-year upside potential of 41%. (See AVGO stock forecast.)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analyst. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
