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Got $3,000? 2 Cloud Stocks That Wall Street Analysts Raised Targets on This Month.

March 31, 2026 — 05:05 am EDT

Written by

Dave Kovaleski for

The Motley Fool->

Key Points

- Wall Street analysts at Needham just upgraded Arm Holdings on its new chip initiative.

- Morgan Stanley just raised its price target for CrowdStrike.

- Both of these stocks have high valuations.

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Cloud computing stocks have been an interesting case this year. Although demand for cloud computing continues to surge, many of the stocks in this industry have sputtered.

One of the reasons is the stocks have become too expensive and overvalued after three years of bull market gains. But there are other reasons specific to cloud stocks. Many are dealing with capacity constraints to handle the high demand, which has hurt their ability to maximize profits.

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Also, cloud computing stocks are spending a ton of money, more than they have in the past, on building out their AI infrastructure to handle the capacity constraints. However, many investors are questioning whether these enormous capital expenditures are going to produce adequate returns or just eat into free cash flow, compress margins, and stunt earnings. Others contend that the infrastructure investments are necessary for long-term growth.

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In the analyst community, there have been some bullish calls on cloud stocks this month. Here are two cloud stocks that recently were upgraded by Wall Street stock pickers.

1. Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) is not a cloud computing company, but it serves that industry by providing the designs and licensing them to chipmakers to build their own chips. It is dominant in smartphone chips and has been expanding in the AI data center market.

But earlier this week, Arm announced a new direction for the company, launching its own CPU chip, the Arm AGI CPU, which is built for data centers to handle agentic AI workloads. Meta Platforms has signed on to use the chips along with other customers including Cerebras, Cloudflare, OpenAI, F5 Positron, Rebellions, SAP, and SK Telecom.

This new business would be in addition to its chip designing business. At the March 24 Arm Everywhere event, management projected huge growth from the new chips. Arm is calling for the chips to generate $15 billion annually starting in 2031, raising total revenue to $25 billion and earnings to $9 per share. For comparison, the company is anticipating revenue of about $5 billion this fiscal year.

Analysts at Needham upgraded Arm stock to a buy on the news and set a price target of $200 per share. The stock is currently trading at about $138 per share (as of March 30), so that would be 45% upside for Arm stock.

"We have been on the sidelines on ARM for 2.5 years and now see a series of its high-stakes bets, including raising royalty rates, going into subsystems, and making its own silicon, are working," Needham analysts wrote. "These bold moves should disrupt the existing industry landscape, one of the reasons why we were cautious, but are now transforming ARM for the better in a surprising way. With the rise of agentic AI and the growing role of CPU in AI data centers, we think ARM has become a credible AI play."

While the growth potential is huge, Arm stock is overvalued at 61 times forward earnings. But maybe that will come down after these new growth projections are factored in.

2. CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), the cloud-based cybersecurity company, got a significant upgrade from analysts at Morgan Stanley earlier in March. They bumped the rating for CrowdStrike stock to a buy, or overweight, and raised the price target to $510 per share, from $487.

At its current price of $384 per share, the new price target would indicate a 33% return during the next 12 months.

In their assessment, Morgan Stanley analysts said CrowdStrike is positioned to generate 20% annual revenue growth during the next few years. Morgan Stanley noted the growth potential of its Falcon Flex platform, which lets customers bundle services, as opposed to buying them separately. The Flex platform saw annual recurring revenue (ARR) jump 120% in the fiscal fourth quarter.

CrowdStrike also rolled out its Charlotte AI AgentWorks Ecosystem, which allows customers to use CrowdStrike's development platform and AI models to build their own custom security agents.