Needham — sell-side track record
Needham made 146 rating changes across 31 covered names in the last 12 months. 48% of its 128 scored calls were right at 30 days; the names it called averaged +2.7% in the 90 days after a call, and had already run +2.4% in the 30 days before it.
Across 31 covered names, last 12 months, graded through 2026-09-14. Rebuilt every morning.
Names covered
By name
| Ticker | Calls | Scored | Right | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOGL | 10 | 10 | 6 | 60.0% |
| HOOD | 10 | 10 | 4 | 40.0% |
| BSX | 9 | 9 | 4 | 44.4% |
| KLAC | 7 | 7 | 4 | 57.1% |
| AMAT | 6 | 6 | 3 | 50.0% |
| LRCX | 6 | 6 | 4 | 66.7% |
| MDT | 8 | 6 | 2 | 33.3% |
| CRWD | 7 | 5 | 3 | 60.0% |
| DIS | 5 | 5 | 3 | 60.0% |
| DKNG | 5 | 5 | 4 | 80.0% |
| GILD | 5 | 5 | 2 | 40.0% |
| NVDA | 7 | 5 | 1 | 20.0% |
| QBTS | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20.0% |
| TSM | 5 | 5 | 3 | 60.0% |
| UBER | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20.0% |
| AMZN | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50.0% |
| FLUT | 4 | 4 | 3 | 75.0% |
| LEU | 4 | 4 | 3 | 75.0% |
| NXT | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.0% |
| NFLX | 3 | 3 | 0 | — |
| SHOP | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| SYK | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| SYM | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| OKLO | 2 | 2 | 1 | — |
| RGTI | 2 | 2 | 1 | — |
| FSLR | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| PENN | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| AAPL | 5 | 0 | 0 | — |
| INTC | 2 | 0 | 0 | — |
| MRNA | 1 | 0 | 0 | — |
| TSLA | 4 | 0 | 0 | — |
Latest calls
| Date | Ticker | Change | Action | Graded as | Price at call | Run before | +30d | +90d | Hit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | AAPL | Hold → Hold | reiterated | True hold | $316.22 | +0.9% | — | — | not graded |
| 2026-09-04 | NVDA | Buy → Buy | reiterated | Bullish | $230.36 | +5.1% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-09-03 | CRWD | Buy → Buy | reiterated | Bullish | $214.97 | +1.8% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-09-01 | MDT | Buy → Buy | reiterated | Bullish | $92.04 | +7.8% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-08-27 | NVDA | Buy → Buy | maintained | Bullish | $227.98 | +15.7% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-08-27 | MDT | Buy → Buy | maintained | Bullish | $89.97 | +3.6% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-08-27 | CRWD | Buy → Buy | maintained | Bullish | $227.96 | +25.4% | — | — | pending |
| 2026-08-14 | AMAT | Buy → Buy | reiterated | Bullish | $507.18 | -12.5% | -15.4% | — | ✗ |
| 2026-08-07 | LEU | Buy → Buy | maintained | Bullish | $191.37 | +15.0% | -3.0% | — | ✗ |
| 2026-08-06 | SYM | Buy → Buy | reiterated | Bullish | $39.60 | -4.2% | +9.3% | — | ✓ |
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How the grading works
Every sell-side rating change from the last 365 days is priced the day it lands and checked again 30, 60 and 90 days later. A call is a hit when the stock moved in the called direction at 30 days. Buy- and Sell-side ratings call their own direction. A Hold is read, not waved through: a downgrade to Hold is graded as a bearish call and an upgrade to Hold as a bullish one, and a maintained Hold whose price target sits 10%+ above the price leans bullish (10%+ below, leans bearish) and is graded that way. A Hold with a target close to the price is a true Hold and is not graded at all. Every call with a price target also gets a target check 90 days later: hit (reached it or within 5%), close (covered at least half the distance) or missed. A firm's accuracy on a single name prints only after 4 scored calls, and a firm gets its own page only after 10 scored calls across every covered name — below that a percentage is noise. "Run before the call" is the stock's move over the 30 calendar days before the rating landed. Data: Yahoo Finance rating history and daily closes, rebuilt each morning. Nothing on this page is advice.
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