GE Vernova gets a monster price-target pop

The GEV headline is doing the heavy lifting

GE Vernova is the clear star of this analyst roundup. Baird didn’t just nudge its target higher — it blasted it from $1,008 to $1,400 and kept the stock at Outperform. That’s a pretty loud way of saying, “We still think this thing has room to run.”

For a stock already trading at $1,127.56 on Wednesday, that target implies Wall Street sees more upside ahead. And when a name tied to the power grid, electrification, and AI-hungry infrastructure gets a bullish call, investors tend to perk up like they just heard the word “upgrade” in a crowded coffee shop.

But this was a whole analyst mixtape

The article also tossed in a grab bag of other rating and target changes:

• ServiceNow got its target cut by Needham, though the firm kept a Buy rating.
• Boston Scientific saw a target trim from Needham, but the Buy stayed intact.
• Hershey and Pegasystems also got target cuts.
• Hyatt, Synchrony, WEX, Masco, and Pathward all picked up higher targets.

So no, this wasn’t a one-stock headline dressed up in a trench coat. It was a broad analyst roundup with GEV as the most eye-catching move.

Why you should care

Price-target changes don’t move a company’s fundamentals overnight, but they do influence sentiment — and sentiment is basically the caffeine in the market’s bloodstream. A big target hike can bring in momentum traders, sharpen the bull-bear debate, and make a stock feel more “institutional favorite” than it did five minutes ago.

Big picture: GEV is still getting the kind of attention that can keep a stock expensive for a long time, especially when analysts start talking like the future is already on the balance sheet.