3 Growth Stocks the Pros Say You Should Buy

Growth didn't exactly start this year on a tear, but 2026 has managed to turn around … and turn into exactly what Wall Street was largely hoping for.

Stocks have been weighed down by economic growth concerns, tariff policies, a brief government shutdown, and America's war with Iran. Wall Street's pros remained unflinchingly optimistic about many names, believing the selloffs were temporary in nature, and right now, it looks like they were right.

The question now is: Which stocks still have gas left in the tank?

Here are 3 of the Wall Street analyst community's top growth stocks right now. These are companies that "the pros" believe will rapidly grow their top and bottom lines in the years to come—and whose stocks they expect will be propelled higher as a result.

Disclaimer: This article does not constitute individualized investment advice. Individual securities, funds, and/or other investments appear for your consideration and not as personalized investment recommendations. Act at your own discretion.

The Best Growth Stocks to Buy Now

The top growth stocks right now are companies expanding faster than the broader market, as well as their peers. That often involves riding a long-term trend that will result in a durable tailwind for years to come.

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Nothing is certain on Wall Street, of course, and growth stocks that showed strong revenue trends or stock price appreciation over the past year might still stumble if things change in the months to come. That said, investors who pay attention to growth stock data can often identify companies moving into favor—and share in their success.

Today, I'll look at some of the best growth stocks for the year to come based on recent performance, financial metrics, and equity analysts' ratings and growth projections. I'll include both long-term earnings-growth estimates and consensus analyst ratings, courtesy of S&P Global Market Intelligence. The consensus rating is the average of all known analyst ratings of the stock, boiled down to a numerical system where ...

• 1-1.5 = Strong Buy
• 1.5-2.5 = Buy
• 2.5-3.5 = Hold
• 3.5-4.5 = Sell
• 4.5-5 = Strong Sell

In short, the lower the number, the better the overall consensus view on the stock.

The following are a three selections from our fuller list of the best growth stocks to buy.

3. Micron

• Sector: Technology
• Market cap: $1.0 trillion
• Long-term earnings growth estimate: 143%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.48 (Strong Buy)

Micron Technology (MU) specializes in memory and storage products, such as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, and solid-state drives (SSDs). It serves a wide variety of markets, including PCs, graphics, networking, automotive, industrial, and consumer. Perhaps its most important right now is data centers, where AI-driven demand has helped to reinvigorate prices for NAND and DRAM broadly.

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"In the age of AI, no company other than Nvidia has blown away consensus expectations as measurably as Micron did with 2Q26 results and 3Q26 guidance," says Argus analyst Jim Kelleher (Buy). “Growth is being driven by surging prices and AI demand for high bandwidth memory (HBM), along with soaring DRAM volumes, favorable mix, and improved NAND demand.”

UBS analysts made a stir in late May with a wild price-target upgrade on MU stock that implied Micron's shares could more than double within the next year or so.

"Our supply chain work on 'Long Term Agreements (LTAs) across the memory industry' [another UBS report] suggests that up to 30% of DDR volumes industry-wide will be soon locked in at pricing that is just slightly below current levels, and these agreements will allow MU to trade some near-term revenue for demand visibility and a smoother earnings profile," UBS analyst Tim Arcuri (Buy) wrote in a research note. 

He added that because investors typically reward stocks for their durability and visibility, Micron's ability to keep earnings above $100 per share would represent the "lasting, structural change that should support a shift toward a broader semi multiple."

MU lost a few Buy calls in the second half of 2025 amid a run-up in shares, but the bull camp has been filling back up. Currently, Micron stock enjoys 39 Buy calls versus just four Holds and one Sell. Meanwhile, their expectations for the bottom line are sky-high, with the consensus looking for more than 140% annual earnings expansion over the next five years.

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2. Arista Networks

• Sector: Technology
• Market cap: $200.4 billion
• Long-term earnings growth estimate: 17%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.28 (Strong Buy)

Arista Networks (ANET) delivers client-to-cloud networking solutions, primarily for large-scale datacenters, cloud providers, and enterprise environments. That makes it a critical provider of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Their offerings include high-speed Ethernet switches, the extensible Operating System (EOS), and network management software like CloudVision.

And Arista's positioning in technology's most important trends has Wall Street unanimously bullish on the stock right now: All of ANET's 29 covering analysts rate shares at Buy.

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"Arista is benefiting from accelerating [cloud service provider] and enterprise demand and strengthening in cloud-based data center networking in support of large language models, multimodal models, inference, agentic AI, and other AI-driven areas," says Argus analyst Jim Kelleher, who rates the stock at Buy. "The Cloud Titan category, capturing the largest CSPs and hyperscalers, rose by 30% in 2025, matching the 2024 growth rate. We expect Cloud Titan demand to sustain mid-double-digit growth in 2026. In the AI & Specialty Provider category, which includes neoclouds, along with large cloud companies such as Apple Inc. and Oracle Corp., revenue soared 49% in 2025. We are modeling continued mid-double-digit growth in this category for 2026."

After the company issued cautious 2026 guidance earlier in May, William Blair analysts said "we would take advantage of the weakness."

"Arista remains a leading AI infrastructure provider, counting on strong relationships with the hyperscalers, a growing order backlog, and multiple AI networking tailwinds," says William Blair, which rates the stock at Outperform.

ANET shares have already advanced by about 20% so far in 2026, and Wall Street's consensus price target implies another 20% or so of headroom over the next 12 months.

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1. Take-Two Interactive Software

• Sector: Communication services
• Market cap: $41.0 billion
• Long-term earnings growth estimate: 40%
• Consensus analyst rating: 1.19 (Strong Buy)

Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), tops on our list of tech stocks to buy right now, is a juggernaut in the video game space, responsible for developing, publishing, and marketing a variety of titles, often under subsidiary labels including Rockstar Games and 2K. Among its various games are the WWE, PGA, and NBA 2K series, the Civilization and Red Dead Redemption series, a host of mobile games (including Words With Friends and FarmVille), and most notably, the Grand Theft Auto series.

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A recent Jefferies analyst note cuts right to the heart of the most important factor in TTWO shares right now: "The GTA hype cycle has officially begun."

GTA VI is a long-awaited title that’s all but certain to be a blockbuster, but it also has become something of a running joke. Its launch will now come roughly 13 years after the release of its predecessor, GTA V. That’s longer than the gap between the launch of Grand Theft Auto’s third and fifth editions! GTA V originally launched on the PlayStation 3; it has since been relaunched on PS4 and PS5 to give GTA fans something, anything to do in the interim.

Regardless, Wall Street largely expects GTA VI to be a success, and that’s reflected in extremely bullish ratings—26 Buys, no Holds, and one Sell as of this writing—powered by expectations for 40% average annual long-term earnings growth.

"TTWO possesses some of the highest-quality content among U.S. publishers," says Jefferies analyst James Heaney, who rates the stock at Buy. "The last several years have seen investment in developers, this year sees investment in sales and marketing—all leading to an unprecedented wave of content starting with GTA VI in FY27, with further pipeline titles beyond. Valuation is reasonable, and as the pipeline becomes known, we expect rerating in estimates."

As for the AI worries that rattled much of the software space? BofA Global Research, for one, isn't concerned.

"TTWO now offers a particularly attractive buying opportunity after the recent drawdown on concerns that Google's 'Genie 3' model undermines AAA publishers," say BofA analysts Omar Dessouky and Arthur Chu (Buy). “We view the concerns as misplaced: (1) Management clarified that Genie 'is not a game engine' and today looks closer to a procedurally generated interactive video tool than a replacement for mission design, physics, networking or live-ops; it cannot supplant end‑to‑end game production. (2) About half of TTWO's earnings are gated by proprietary IP and licenses (e.g., NBA/NBPA, player likeness rights), and the company's hallmark open‑world titles deliver ~100 hours of authored gameplay and stable multiplayer environments at scale.”

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