AnaChart Recognizes Top Analysts’ Performance in 2025
By: Michael Muchugia
(Jan. 16, 2026, New York City) — Today, AnaChart.com, a New York–based fintech company that tracks sell-side stock analysts’ stock picks, identified the top research analysts whose stock recommendations outperformed during 2025. These analysts were selected based on the strength, timing, and consistency of their research as measured against realized stock performance throughout the year.
AnaChart’s proprietary algorithm evaluates each analyst’s published recommendations and related price returns across all stocks they cover. The analysis emphasizes price-target timing, conviction, and follow-through, highlighting analysts whose research demonstrated effective price discovery rather than reactive adjustments.
During 2025, several of the top-performing analyst calls were concentrated in technology, semiconductors, aerospace, materials, financial technology, and media, reflecting major inflection points across AI infrastructure, space commercialization, commodities, and corporate turnarounds. AnaChart tracked how analyst forecasts evolved ahead of and during these stock moves.
AnaChart CEO Joseph Kalish commented,
“While equity markets delivered strong gains in 2025, a number of sell-side analysts materially outperformed broad benchmarks through disciplined stock selection and timely research updates. AnaChart’s data allows investors to identify analysts whose price targets consistently led realized returns.”
Top Analysts of 2025
Top Picks
Colin Canfield (Cantor Fitzgerald) – Technology / Space Communications*
Top Pick: AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 21.29
Colin Canfield’s coverage of AST SpaceMobile stood out in 2025 due to disciplined price-target increases that preceded the stock’s most significant phase of appreciation. His targets consistently led price during ASTS’s major upside move, reflecting effective price discovery and superior performance relative to peers.
His coverage aligned with widely reported discussions around AST SpaceMobile’s satellite deployment milestones and commercialization timeline during 2025.
Ed Engel (Compass Point) – Financial Services*
Top Pick: Robinhood Markets (HOOD)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 19.89
Ed Engel’s coverage of Robinhood Markets ranked highest in 2025 due to timely price-target revisions that consistently led major price advances. His forecasts anticipated HOOD’s breakout phase and tracked the stock’s upward re-rating with disciplined, forward-looking adjustments.
His research aligned with broader public commentary around improving trading activity and operating leverage at Robinhood during 2025.
Christopher Rolland (Susquehanna) – Technology
Top Pick: Lumentum Holdings (LITE)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 5.41
Josh Wolfson (RBC) – Materials
Top Pick: AngloGold Ashanti (AU)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 9.09
Mark Newman (Bernstein) – Semiconductors
Top Pick: Micron Technology (MU)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 5.6
Laurence Alexander (Jefferies) – Materials & Industrials
Top Pick: MP Materials (MP)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 6.24
Asiya Merchant– Technology Hardware
Top Pick: Western Digital (WDC)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 5.58
Ryan Koontz (Needham) – Technology & Networking
Top Pick: Ciena (CIEN)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 6.88
Jason Gursky (Citi) – Aerospace & Defense
Top Pick: Rocket Lab (RKLB)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 18.68
Kannan Venkateshwar (Barclays) – Media & Entertainment
Top Pick: Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 5.42
Honorable Mentions
Melissa Fairbanks (Raymond James) – Semiconductors
Top Pick: Micron Technology (MU)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 12.19
James Yaro (Goldman Sachs) – Financial Technology
Top Pick: Robinhood Markets (HOOD)
AnaChart Current Performance Score: 19.24
Short of the Year (2025)
Brooke Roach (Goldman Sachs) – Consumer Discretionary
Short / Avoidance Pick: Deckers Outdoor (DECK)
Throughout 2025, Deckers Outdoor experienced a sharp drawdown following its prior period of strength. During this decline, Brooke Roach maintained price targets that remained below the prevailing stock price, avoiding participation in temporary rebounds and demonstrating valuation discipline. Her restrained approach contrasted with broader market optimism and proved effective as DECK continued to re-rate lower.
About AnaChart
AnaChart.com is revolutionizing the fintech industry as an equity research support platform. Founded in 2020, AnaChart uses proprietary technology to track up-to-date price targets and ratings published by top sell-side stock analysts. The platform provides transparency into analyst performance, helping investors better understand which research has historically added value. AnaChart offers a free version covering analyst picks on leading U.S. equities, as well as a subscription service tracking thousands of stocks and analysts globally.
For further information, contact [email protected].
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AnaChart 2025 Top Analysts: Frequently Asked Questions
What are the AnaChart Top Analyst awards for 2025?
Each year AnaChart recognizes the sell-side analysts with the strongest price-target accuracy. The 2025 rankings are based on AnaChart’s full historical record of which price targets were actually met — verifiable outcomes rather than reputation.
How does AnaChart choose its top analysts?
By measuring each analyst’s price-target met ratio and performance score across the stocks they cover, per stock, using data dating back to 2004. The most consistently accurate analysts rise to the top.
Where can I see the current top-performing analysts?
Browse AnaChart’s top performing analysts by sector for the latest standings, which update continuously as analysts publish new targets and stocks hit or miss them.
For institutional teams: AnaChart’s full analyst price-target and accuracy dataset — every analyst, every target and revision since 2004 — is available warehouse-native through AnaChart Corporate Access, delivered straight into Snowflake or Google BigQuery with no ETL.