Wall Street price targets capture analysts' forward views of where a stock should trade based on valuation models, fundamentals, and sector outlooks. The gap between a company's current market price and its average analyst target is a key metric for spotting potential mispricing.

A wide gap below the target implies upside potential — the market may be undervaluing future earnings — while a price trading well above target can suggest downside risk.

This week, five companies stand out for showing the largest discrepancies between current price and consensus analyst targets. Below, we highlight these names and show how to automate this analysis using FMP's Price Target Summary Bulk API.

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5 Companies Showing the Largest Price Target Spreads (Ranked by Implied Upside)

1. Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET)

• Current Price: $16.29
  
  
• Average Target (Last Quarter): $23.00
  
  
• Upside Potential: +41%
  
  

Energy Transfer's valuation gap highlights the market's caution on commodity sensitivity. However, stable cash flows from midstream operations, improving leverage ratios, and steady distributions make ET one of the more attractive high-yield energy plays for 2025.

2. Corteva Inc. (NYSE: CTVA)

• Current Price: $61.83
  
  
• Average Target (Last Quarter): $84.00
  
  
• Upside Potential: +36%
  
  

The agriculture giant has navigated pricing normalization after last year's fertilizer spikes. With innovation in seed genetics and a leaner cost base, analysts expect earnings recovery into 2026. The 36% gap underscores renewed confidence in agri-cycle strength.

3. Evercore Partners Inc. (NYSE: EVR)

• Current Price: $300.99
  
  
• Average Target (Last Quarter): $400.00
  
  
• Upside Potential: +33%
  
  

As dealmaking recovers from a two-year lull, Evercore remains well positioned. The firm's strong advisory backlog and improving M&A sentiment support higher earnings visibility. The 33% target gap reflects optimism for renewed capital-markets activity in 2025.

4. MercadoLibre Inc. (NASDAQGS: MELI)

• Current Price: $2,133.67
  
  
• Average Target (Last Quarter): $2,800.00
  
  
• Upside Potential: +31%
  
  

MercadoLibre continues to dominate Latin American e-commerce and fintech. Expanding margins in its payments business (Mercado Pago) and logistics network are driving structural profitability. Analysts' higher price targets suggest confidence in long-term regional growth despite short-term FX pressures.

5. Verisk Analytics Inc. (NASDAQGS: VRSK)

• Current Price: $243.06
  
  
• Average Target (Last Quarter): $309.67
  
  
• Upside Potential: +27%
  
  

Verisk's focus on insurance analytics continues to deliver margin expansion. Analysts see further growth from data-subscription pricing and product cross-sell within risk management verticals. The moderate target gap suggests stable, compounding fundamentals rather than a valuation disconnect.

How to Interpret Price Target Gaps

A big spread to consensus isn't automatically a green light—it's an invitation to analyze deeper. Here's how to filter credible signals from noise:

Check coverage depth

A 30% gap supported by only one analyst is weak; multiple, recent targets strengthen validity.

Check Recency of Targets

Compare lastQuarterAvgPriceTarget with lastYearAvgPriceTarget to confirm whether sentiment has shifted recently.

Review Source Quality

Consensus led by top-tier firms (e.g., JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs) carries more predictive value than boutique coverage.

Link Gaps to Catalysts

Tie valuation discrepancies to events — such as earnings, capital allocation moves, regulatory updates, or restructuring — using tools like the Earnings Calendar API or Search Stock News API.

For a structured approach on tracking how target prices evolve over time and adjusting positions as fair value shifts, this guide on monitoring price target changes offers a practical workflow aligned with analyst methodologies.

Automating Target Gap Analysis with the FMP API

Rather than combing through research reports manually, you can automate this process with two key FMP APIs:

Step 1: Pull Analyst Price Targets

Use the Price Target Summary Bulk API to fetch consensus targets for thousands of tickers.

Endpoint:
https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable/price-target-summary-bulk?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Sample Response:

[

{

"symbol": "AAPL",

"lastQuarterCount": "12",

"lastQuarterAvgPriceTarget": "228.15",

"lastYearAvgPriceTarget": "205.34"

}

]

Focus on lastQuarterAvgPriceTarget for the freshest consensus.

Step 2: Retrieve Current Pricing

Use the Company Profile Data API to retrieve live prices:
https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable/profile/AAPL?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Step 3: Calculate Upside Potential

Formula:
Upside % = (Price Target - Current Price) / Current Price × 100

Step 4: Screen for High-Opportunity Stocks

Filter for stocks with ≥ 20% upside and strong analyst coverage. Combine with news or event data to understand what's driving the spread.

As workflows mature, many analysts begin exploring the broader dataset ecosystem through the FMP platform, building combined valuation and catalyst screens from a single source.

Scaling Price Target Screens Across Research Teams

Running this screen on a laptop is insightful; embedding it in a firm's research workflow is transformational.
Centralized dashboards powered by the Price Target Summary Bulk API create a live view of consensus shifts.

For enterprise users, FMP's Enterprise plan enables standardized assumptions and compliance-ready audit trails.

• Research leads can set minimum coverage thresholds.
  
  
• Portfolio managers can filter gaps by sector or portfolio exposure.
  
  
• Risk teams can monitor target revisions around earnings events.
  
  

When these APIs feed into a shared data layer, analysts, PMs, and risk all work from synchronized insight—reducing duplication and improving timing.

Putting Price Target Signals to Work

Price-target gaps are quick to calculate but powerful in practice. The names highlighted this week—Evercore, MercadoLibre, Energy Transfer, Corteva, and Verisk—illustrate how valuation gaps can reveal early opportunity when combined with context and catalysts.

By automating your analysis with FMP's Price Target Summary Bulk API and Company Profile Data API, you can turn raw target data into an actionable, continuously updating signal layer.