These stocks are down at least 20% from 2021 highs, but Wall Street sees them gaining as much as 87% in 2022

A coagulated 2021, but look astatine the cap-weighting

The benchmark S&P 500 scale SPX, +0.10% has risen 27.4% during 2021, pursuing a 16.3% successful 2020 — 2 years of pandemic and 2 years of double-digit gains. (All terms changed successful this nonfiction exclude dividends.)

You astir apt cognize the S&P 500 is weighted by marketplace capitalization, but you mightiness not beryllium alert of however utmost the weighting tin be. Take a look astatine the weighting and show of the apical 5 companies held by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, +0.07%, which tracks the S&P 500. Together, they marque up 23% of the fund’s portfolio and the index:

SPY and the S&P 500 see 2 common-share classes for Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.03% GOOG, -0.02% and 2 apiece for 4 different companies, for a full of 505 stocks.

Stocks successful carnivore markets that analysts love

For a broader database of large-cap stocks listed successful the U.S., including those of immoderate of China’s biggest net players, we added the components of the Nasdaq-100 Index NDX, -0.13%, comprised of the 100 largest Nasdaq-listed companies by marketplace capitalization and tracked by the Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ, -0.16%.

After removing duplicates, this near a database of 529 stocks.

Within successful the group, 94 are successful a carnivore marketplace — that is, they were down astatine slightest 20% from their 2021 intraday highs done Dec. 28, according to information provided by FactSet.

Among the 94, determination are 30 with “buy” oregon equivalent ratings from astatine slightest two-thirds of analysts polled by FactSet. Here they are, sorted by the 12-month upside imaginable implied by the statement terms targets:

You tin click the tickers for much astir each company. Click here for Tomi Kilgore’s elaborate usher to the wealthiness of accusation for escaped connected the MarketWatch punctuation page.