Good riddance, 2022. Tuesday officially marked the start of a new year on Wall Street, and while there is no guarantee 2023 will be a great one for stocks, for now it’s nice to turn the page on the worst year since 2008 . After recently highlighting Club holdings that analysts tapped as their top picks for 2023, we wanted to take the Street’s temperature on our stocks in a different way. So, we screened our portfolio to find the holdings that are rated buy or overweight by at least 75% of relevant analysts, and also have a 15% upside to those analysts’ average price target based on where the stock closed on the final trading day of 2022. These are the 10 stocks that match our specific criteria, according to data from FactSet, in order from the highest-to-lowest percentage of buy or overweight ratings: Amazon (AMZN) Alphabet (GOOGL) Microsoft (MSFT) Halliburton (HAL) Walt Disney (DIS) Humana (HUM) Wells Fargo (WFC) Salesforce (CRM) Constellation Brands (STZ) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Amazon Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 92% Upside to average price target: 60.9% Analysts expect Amazon to bounce back in a big way after shares tumbled nearly 50% last year. We’ve continued to stay invested in the ecommerce and cloud-computing giant, but have been clear about what we need to see from management in the coming months — namely, more robust discipline on costs. That’s key for Amazon shares to make a meaningful move higher in the face of growing recession fears. Alphabet Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 92% Upside to average price target: 40.1% Like with Amazon, the Street continues to stand with Google parent Alphabet, despite a 39.1% decline in its share price in 2022. Similar to Amazon, we want to see Alphabet rationalize its hiring and spending because its main source of revenue — advertising — remains pressured by mounting economic headwinds. Microsoft Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 92% Upside to average price target: 22.2% Microsoft — the third mega-cap tech stock to make the list — is also well-liked by analysts following a year in which shares tumbled nearly 29%. Microsoft is one of the best-run companies out there, which allows us to see through any near-term macroeconomic challenges and focus on its long-term growth prospects, particularly in enterprise cloud computing. We may be looking to book some profits if the stock climbs toward the $300 level, after ending 2022 around $240 per share. Halliburton Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 86% Upside to average price target: 16.8% Halliburton was a big winner last year, climbing 72% in 2022, and the vast majority of analysts who cover the company believe it can go even higher, even if gains are more muted this year. While day-to-day oil price fluctuations may at times test our conviction in our energy investments — West Texas Intermediate crude closed down more than 3.7% Tuesday — Halliburton’s multiyear growth story remains intact. We also believe it boasts pricing power, a key attribute for this current economic environment . Walt Disney Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 82% Upside to average price target: 37.7% Analysts expect some magic to return to Disney following a miserable 44% slide in 2022. We hope so, too, now that Bob Iger is back as CEO . Iger should help steady the ship, especially on Disney’s money-losing streaming side. Humana Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 80% Upside to average price target: 19.5% Humana is the only Club holding besides Halliburton to post share gains in 2022 and land on Tuesday’s top-10 screen. Many of the same factors that fueled Humana’s outperformance last year, with the stock rising 10.4%, are still relevant and explain why we added to our position in the health insurer earlier Tuesday . Those reasons include a lack of economic sensitivity and limited exposure to the strong U.S. dollar . Wells Fargo Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 79% Upside to average price target: 30.9% Despite fears of a U.S. recession on the horizon, most analysts view Wells Fargo favorably. The bank’s shares outperformed the S & P 500 last year, falling only 13.9% compared with the index’s roughly 19% slide. Even as we await the full dissipation of the regulatory cloud that hovers over Wells Fargo , it’s one of the best-capitalized banks in the U.S. and poised to benefit from higher interest rates. Salesforce Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 78% Upside to average price target: 47.2% Add Salesforce to the list of beaten-up tech stocks that most analysts expect to recover in 2023. Salesforce shares fell almost 48% last year, a steep decline we admittedly didn’t expect. We’ll be looking to see if the value-creation potential that activist investor Starboard sees in Salesforce starts to materialize in 2023, while Mark Benioff resumes his prior role as sole CEO . Constellation Brands Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 78% Upside to average price target: 18.8% The maker of Corona and Modelo beer also held up much better than the S & P in 2022, declining only 7.7%. We still believe Constellation’s business should prove relatively durable in an economic slowdown, and added to our position right before the holidays. Advanced Micro Devices Percentage of analysts with a buy/overweight rating: 76% Upside to average price target: 35.7% Of the 10 stocks on this list, AMD saw the biggest decline in 2022. The chipmaker’s shares sank 55%. However, most analysts expect its fortunes to improve this year, after having been weighed down by soft demand in end markets like PCs. The chip industry does not seem to be out of the woods yet , but we’re continuing to back AMD over the long term. (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. 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Good riddance, 2022.
Tuesday officially marked the start of a new year on Wall Street, and while there is no guarantee 2023 will be a great one for stocks, for now it’s nice to turn the page on the worst year since 2008.
