Top 20 Analysts For 2015

TipRanks gathers analyst ratings and ranks them based on accuracy over time. Here is a list of the top 20 Wall Street analysts of 2015, according to the platform's data.

1. Irina Rivkind Koffler

Mizuho Securities

103 out of 148 successful ratings (70 percent)

Irina Rivkind Koffler focuses on the biotech industry. Some of her recent Buy ratings in the past month included Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) TEVA, Allergan plc Ordinary Shares AGN and Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc VRX. This month, the analyst initiated a Buy rating on Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc EGRX with a price target of $112. Koffler’s only Hold rating of the past month was for Mallinckrodt PLC MNK. The analyst has a 70 percent success rate, according to TipRanks.

2. Gene Munster

Piper Jaffray

268 out of 410 successful ratings (65 percent)

Gene Munster has made several Buy ratings for major tech companies in the past few months. Most recently, the analyst maintained a Buy rating on TubeMogul Inc TUBE with a price target of $23. The analyst also gave consistent Buy ratings for Yahoo! Inc. YHOO, Apple Inc. AAPL and Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN with price targets of $39, $179 and $800, respectively. He has a 65 percent success rate.

3. Mark Mahaney

RBC Capital

203 out of 302 successful ratings (67 percent)

Mark Mahaney covers the technology industry. While he upgraded Yelp to Buy, the analyst also reiterated Buy ratings for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA, Expedia Inc EXPE and Netflix, Inc. NFLX. Mahaney’s only recent hold rating was for Yahoo! Inc. YHOO with a price target of $42. The analyst has a 67 percent success rate.

4. Glenn Greene

Oppenheimer

105 out of 120 successful ratings (88 percent)

Glenn Greene also rates companies in the technology industry, with a focus on financial companies as of late. In the past 6 months, the analyst gave Buy ratings for WEX Inc WEX, Visa Inc V and Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. JKHY, while initiating a Buy rating on First Data Corp FDC with a $20 price target. The analyst gave only one hold rating in the past 6 months on FactSet Research Systems Inc. FDS with no price target.

5. Helane Becker

Cowen & Co.

94 out of 118 successful ratings (80 percent)

Helane Becker covers companies in the services industry. Recently, the analyst gave Buy ratings on airlines Spirit Airlines Incorporated SAVE, Alaska Air Group, Inc. ALK and Southwest Airlines Co LUV and Hold ratings on Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. HA and Anglo American plc AAL.

6. David Windley

Jefferies

106 out of 134 ratings (79 percent)

David Windley focuses on companies in the healthcare industry. In the past 6 months, Windley upgraded INC Research Holdings Inc INCR and Centene Corp CNC to Buy with a price target of $51 and $88, respectively. The analyst also gave Buy ratings for Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc Q and Aetna Inc AET, but downgraded Catalent Inc CTLT, PAREXEL International Corporation PRXL and Health Net, Inc. HNT to Hold.

7. Doug Anmuth

JPMorgan

133 out of 197 successful ratings (68 percent)

Analyst Doug Anmuth rates technology companies. In the past three months, Anmuth gave a Buy rating to tech giants including Facebook Inc FB, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA and Amazon.com, Inc AMZN. His most recent rating was for Match Group Inc MTCH, initiating a hold with a price target of $16.

8. Youssef Squali

Cantor Fitzgerald

187 out of 293 successful ratings (64 percent)

Youssef Squali also covers the technology sector. He gave several Buy ratings in the past few months to companies such as Yahoo! Inc. YHOO, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA,Facebook Inc FB, LinkedIn Corp LNKD and Alphabet Inc GOOGL. Squali has a 64 percent success rate, according to TipRanks.

9. David Nierengarten

Wedbush

53 out of 98 successful ratings (54 percent)

David Nierengarten covers companies in the biotech sector. The analyst most recently initiated a Buy rating for Voyager Therapeutics Inc VYGR with a price target of $36. He also gave Buy ratings for Cerulean Pharma Inc CERU, bluebird bio Inc BLUE and Cidara Therapeutics Inc CDTX. The analyst gave Hold ratings for Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. RPTP and Fibrocell Science Inc FCSC, upgrading Raptor with a price target of $7.00 while downgrading Fibrocell with a price target of $6.00.

10. Vijay Rakesh

Mizuho Securities

79 out of 117 successful ratings (68 percent)

Analyst Vijay Rakesh also rates technology companies. In the past six months, the analyst initiated a Buy rating on Microsemi Corporation MSCC with a price target of $42 and PMC-Sierra Inc PMCS with a price target of $14. He was also bullish on companies such as Avago Technologies LtdAVGO, Micron Technology MU and Qorvo Inc QRVO. Rakesh gave two Hold ratings on Advanced Micro Devices AMD and Intel Corporation INTC.

11. Rick Schafer

Oppenheimer

109 out of 150 successful ratings (73 percent)

Analyst Rick Schafer covers companies in the technology industry. In the past two months, the analyst gave Buy ratings to companies such as Avago Technologies Ltd AVGO, Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. MPWR and Linear Technology Corporation LLTC and a Sell rating to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD. The analyst also gave Hold ratings to Qorvo Inc QRVO and Intel Corporation INTC.

12. Justin Lake

JPMorgan

64 out of 73 successful ratings (88 percent)

Justin Lake’s specialty is healthcare stocks. In the past three months the analyst has initiated ratings on several companies, including Buy ratings on Humana Inc HUM, UnitedHealth Group Inc UNH, CIGNA Corporation CI and Aetna Inc AET with price targets of $210, $150, $175 and $144, respectively. Lake initiated Hold ratings on Molina Healthcare, Inc. MOH, HCA Holdings Inc. HCA, Tenet Healthcare Corp THC, Community Health Systems CYH and LifePoint Health Inc LPNT with price targets of $84, $98, $52, $56 and $79, respectively.

13. Brian Schwartz

Oppenheimer

107 out of 146 successful ratings (73 percent)

Brian Schwartz specializes in the technology sector. His most recently gave a Buy rating to Xactly Corp XTLY with a price target of $12. Within the past month, the analyst initiated a Buy rating on Instructure Inc INST with a price target of $25 and downgraded Textura Corp TXTR to Hold.

14. Michael Wiederhorn

Oppenheimer

126 out of 187 successful ratings (67 percent)

Healthcare companies are Michael Wiederhorn’s area of expertise. In the past two months, the analyst gave seven Buy ratings, including UnitedHealth Group Inc UNH, LHCG Group, Inc. LHCG, Community Health Systems CYH, Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc ANTH and Centene Corp CNC. Last month, he remained on the sidelines for LifePoint Health Inc LPNT, offering a Hold rating without a price target.

15. Colin Sebastian

Robert W. Baird

105 out of 141 successful ratings (74 percent)

Colin Sebastian rates technology companies, recently focusing on ecommerce and gaming. In the past month, the analyst gave Buy ratings on Electronic Arts Inc. EA, Shutterfly, Inc. SFLY, GameStop Corp. GME, Paypal Holdings Inc PYPL and Facebook Inc FB. He remains on the sidelines for companies such as ChannelAdvisor Corp ECOM and Zynga Inc ZNGA.

16. Kevin Cassidy

Stifel Nicolaus

89 out of 129 successful ratings (69 percent)

Kevin Cassidy rates technology firms, focusing on several semi-conductor companies in the past six months. The analyst was bullish on firms such as Ambarella Inc AMBA, Synaptics, Incorporated SYNA, Micron Technology MU and SanDisk Corporation SNDK, but downgraded Cavium Inc CAVM to Hold with a price target of $70.

17. Laura Martin

Needham

95 out of 138 successful ratings (69 percent)

Laura Martin focuses on the services sector and has rated many internet giants in the last few months, giving a Buy rating to companies such as COMSCORE, Inc. SCOR, Facebook Inc FB, Yahoo! Inc. YHOO and Netflix, Inc. NFLX. Recently, the analyst remained on the sidelines for Viacom, Inc. VIAB and Tripadvisor Inc TRIP.

18. Ross Seymore

Deutsche Bank

90 out of 123 successful ratings (73 percent)

Ross Seymore covers a range of technology companies. In the past month, the analyst gave a Buy rating for NXP Semiconductors NV NXPI, Intel Corporation INTC and Maxim Integrated Products Inc. MXIM, while remaining on the sidelines for Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MRVL, Ambarella Inc AMBA, Analog Devices, Inc ADI and NVIDIA Corporation NVDA. Seymore has a 73 percent success rate.

19.Ronnie Moas

Standpoint

334 out of 481 successful ratings (69 percent)

Ronnie Moas rates companies in a variety of industries. His most recent rating was for Shoe Carnival, Inc. SCVL, upgrading the company to Buy without a price target. In the past month he also upgraded CA, Inc. CA to Buy with a price target of $33 and First Solar, Inc. FSLR to hold with a price target of $18. The analyst initiated a Buy rating for ANI Pharmaceuticals Inc ANIP with a price target of $54. The analyst also downgraded American International Group Inc AIG and Kite Pharma Inc KITE to Hold, with price targets of $74 and $100 respectively.

20. James Mitchell

Buckingham

24 out of 28 successful ratings (86 percent)

James Mitchell has looked at many financial institutions over the past year. He gave Buy ratings for JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, Bank of America Corp BAC, Citigroup Inc C and Raymond James Financial, Inc. RJF. The analyst downgraded Morgan Stanley MS to Hold with a price target of $38.