Part 1

What Are Price Targets and How Do The Geniuses of Wall Street Come Up With Them? 

Along with the start of the new year comes a myriad of analyst price targets that try to forecast the fate of everything from stocks to oil to gold. 

But projecting where the markets are headed is a tough business and one that is fraught with errors. Perhaps that's why Benjamin Graham once said, “I am skeptical about stock market forecasting by anybody, and particularly by bankers.”

Price targets reflect strategists’ expectations of the price at which a security is supposed to trad...

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Your Price Target Is Likely Going to be Wrong. Here’s Why You Should Set One Anyway.
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