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Analysts hike Robinhood price targets to $110 as Wall Street keeps playing catch-up

Piper Sandler and Morgan Stanley have a rosier view of what awaits HOOD shares.

Matt Phillips
7/15/25 10:31AM

Robinhood Markets received a pair of price target hikes Tuesday as Wall Street looks ahead to the brokerage firm’s earnings report due at the end of the month.

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Stock watchers at Piper Sandler and Morgan Stanley both lifted their price targets on the stock to $110 on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of target hikes from the Street recently.

Piper Sandler, which previously had a $70 target on Robinhood, also lifted its earnings-per-share estimates for Robinhood for this year as well as 2026. The analysts have an “overweight” rating on the stock, but their top picks for the brokerage sector heading into earnings are larger, well-diversified exchange businesses Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange, rather than more volume-dependent firms like Robinhood.

Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley, which had affixed a $43 target on the shares before Tuesday, drastically hiked its estimate “based on new work sizing the potential earnings opportunity from new business lines. Specifically, we sized the [total addressable markets], growth outlook, and HOODs market share opportunity and economics in 2031 for 10 new business units, and discounted those earnings back to 2026 to help derive our new price target.”

Such new businesses include Robinhood’s European brokerage — the focus of a recent announcement on the company’s tokenization plans — as well as crypto activity (including derivatives, staking, and stablecoins), credit cards, and its wealth advisory business.

Despite optimism about the future, Morgan Stanley retained its “equal weight” — basically neutral — rating on the shares, writing, “While we remain equal-weight, our conviction in the long-term HOOD story has not wavered, we simply suspect there will be more attractive entry points going forward.”

Robinhood is set to report results after the close on July 30.

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“Listen, even I’m sort of blown away by what this looks like going forward.”

That’s how the Q&A portion of Oracle’s Q1 2026 earnings call started, with Guggenheim Securities analyst John DiFucci expressing amazement at the company’s outlook for hockey-stick revenue growth in its cloud business thanks to AI.

Oracle’s outlook for cloud sales to rise in an Nvidia-like fashion to $144 billion in its fiscal 2030 from $18 billion in fiscal 2026 is fueling gains across chip suppliers, infrastructure suppliers, server companies, and power providers linked to the AI boom.

Though the gains pale in comparison to Oracle’s more than 30% advance in premarket trading, the other companies atop the S&P 500’s leaderboard include Advanced Micro Devices, GE Vernova, Vistra, Nvidia, Arista Networks, Constellation Energy, Broadcom, NRG, Micron, and Super Micro Computer. All are up at least 1.5% as of 8 a.m. ET.

It’s a similar dynamic to what we saw throughout the AI ecosystem on the heels of Microsoft and Meta’s earnings reports at the end of July, and quite different from the reaction within the chip space after Broadcom’s quarterly release last week (even if that didn’t really make a ton of sense fundamentally).

The seemingly massive rising tide prophesied by Oracle really is lifting all boats.

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Oracle rips as backlog builds, but company misses on top and bottom lines

Oracle shares shot higher after-hours as the company reported a growing backlog, even though its fiscal Q1 results fell slightly short of expectations. The company reported:

  • Adjusted earnings per share of $1.47 vs. expectations of $1.48.

  • Revenue of $14.93 billion vs. expectations of $15.04 billion.

Shares were up 21% in after-hours trading, which is a pretty crazy stock move for a company with a market cap of more than $675 billion.

The market was likely impressed by a giant build in the company’s “remaining performance obligations,” or RPO, which is how the company measures the value of signed cloud computing deals that haven’t yet been reported as revenue. In a statement, CEO Safra Catz said: 

We signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in Q1. This resulted in RPO contract backlog increasing 359% to $455 billion. It was an astonishing quarter — and demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to build. Over the next few months, we expect to sign-up several additional multi-billion-dollar customers and RPO is likely to exceed half-a-trillion dollars.”

The market was likely impressed by a giant build in the company’s “remaining performance obligations,” or RPO, which is how the company measures the value of signed cloud computing deals that haven’t yet been reported as revenue. In a statement, CEO Safra Catz said: 

We signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in Q1. This resulted in RPO contract backlog increasing 359% to $455 billion. It was an astonishing quarter — and demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to build. Over the next few months, we expect to sign-up several additional multi-billion-dollar customers and RPO is likely to exceed half-a-trillion dollars.”

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