Historical analyst price targets are the full run of targets an analyst published on a stock, kept as they stood on each date, with the revisions in order. AnaChart holds 660K+ of them across 9K+ US companies, past and present, back to 2008 and, and every one is scored on whether the stock reached it and how many days that took. This page describes what that history contains, what it does not, and how to get a piece of it.
At a glance
| Coverage | 9K+ US companies, past and present, current and delisted |
| History | Since 2008 |
| Price targets | 660K+, growing by 300+ a day |
| Rating events | 750K+ |
| Analysts | 7K+ across 400+ brokers, active and retired, one identity per person |
| Outcome columns | Direction, met, date met, days to hit, on every target |
| Delivery | CSV file, Snowflake or BigQuery share, or a question answered as a report |
| Free sample | Apple, 3,794 events, 2005 to 2026, full file for an email address |
What “historical” means in this record
Most analyst data feeds carry the current target and overwrite it when the analyst moves. That is a snapshot, not a history. A history keeps the sequence. In AnaChart’s record, each move is one row: the date, the target before the move, the target after it, the rating before and after, the closing price that day, and a reference to where the action was published. Nothing is overwritten. A target set in March 2016 is still in the table in the state it had in March 2016, next to the row that replaced it.
Take Samik Chatterjee at JPMorgan on Apple. The live record on anachart.com shows his current target at $340, his previous at $325, a Buy rating held since 10 January 2019, and 100 of 101 targets reached with an average of 298 days to hit. Those 101 targets are 101 rows, each with its own date and outcome. The current target is the last row, not the only one.
How far back the history goes
The record runs since 2008, with every revision kept. The Apple file, which you can download from the sample page, opens in August 2005 and holds 3,794 events from 126 named analysts by April 2026.
Prices as they were on the day
Every row carries the target as printed on the day and a split-adjusted version of the same number. Apple’s 2005 targets were published against a stock trading near $48 before two later splits. The record keeps $52.08 as the nominal target and 1.86 as the split-adjusted one, with the split ratio beside them, so either basis can be used and the arithmetic can be checked. Scoring runs on the nominal basis against the raw daily high and low, which keeps dividend adjustments out of the comparison.
Delisted, acquired and renamed tickers stay in. A history that drops them overstates how often targets are reached, because the names that went to zero are exactly the ones that leave.
What each historical target is scored on
- Direction: the target against the close on the day it was published. Above is an upward call, below is a downward call.
- Met: the stock traded through the target in that direction, on any later day. There is no time limit.
- Days to hit: calendar days from the publication date to the first day the stock traded through the target.
- Rows with no target, or a target equal to the day’s close, stay in the record with those fields empty.
Because there is no time limit, the pass rate on a stock that rose a great deal over many years runs high. Across the scorable Apple targets in the sample file, 3,192 of 3,374 were reached. The days-to-hit column is what separates analysts on a name like that: on the live record, Tim Long at Barclays shows 56 of 76 reached with an average of 124 days, while Aaron Rakers at Wells Fargo shows 64 of 66 reached with an average of 321 days.
Analyst identity across the years
An analyst who moved firms is one identity in the record, not two. Names are resolved across firm changes and spelling variants, so a target published under one broker in 2014 and one under another in 2019 sit on the same analyst row. The AnaChart post on the analyst ID problem gives the counts: 7,748 distinct broker-and-analyst identifiers in the source records resolve to 7K+ people.
What the history does not contain
- Intraday timing. A target published at 7am and one at 4pm are the same day.
- Calls that were never published on a feed AnaChart parses. Around eight public feeds are read; a target that appeared nowhere in them is not here.
- The analyst’s reasoning, position size, or what was said to clients by phone.
- Any view on whether a target was justified. The record says what was published and what the stock did.
How to get the history
Three ways, in order of effort. A 100-row Apple preview downloads from the sample page with no account, and the full Apple file is sent to any address you give. A question about any ticker, analyst or broker is answered as a formatted report; the first is free and further ones start at $149 on the query catalog. A cut of the full history, by ticker, sector, broker or date range, is delivered as a file or as a Snowflake or BigQuery share into your own account, quoted to the job.
Frequently asked questions
Does the history include the previous target when an analyst moves?
Yes. Each row carries the target before and after. Barton Crockett at Rosenblatt on Apple shows a current target of $303 and a previous target of $300 on the live record, with 31 of 33 targets reached and an average of 170 days to hit; the row for that move holds both numbers.
Are the historical targets split-adjusted?
Both versions are kept. Apple’s August 2005 target of $52.08 is stored alongside its split-adjusted value of 1.86 and the split ratio of 28. Scoring uses the nominal target against raw daily prices.
How is a historical target marked as reached?
The stock traded through it in the direction the analyst pointed, on any later day, with no time limit. Edison Lee at Jefferies shows 9 of 15 Apple targets reached with an average of 91 days on the live record; the six not reached are targets the stock never traded through.
Can I get the history for one ticker only?
Yes. Apple is free from the sample page. Any other single ticker is a query, answered as a report, or a file cut quoted to the job.
How often are analyst price targets correct?
The record answers that per target rather than in general: each one is marked reached or not, with the date. In the Apple sample file, 3,192 of 3,374 scored targets were reached with no time limit, 1,900 of them within 180 days and 2,531 within a year. Apple rose over most of that period, so that ratio describes Apple, not the whole record. The same columns exist for every other ticker.
What is the typical time frame for an analyst price target?
Brokers generally publish a target with a twelve-month horizon. The record does not cut off at twelve months; it keeps counting until the stock trades through the target. In the Apple file, 2,531 of the 3,192 reached targets got there within 365 days, 456 took one to two years, 205 took longer, and the median was 139 days.
Try it on Apple, or ask a question
A 100-row Apple preview downloads free, no account. The full Apple file, 3,794 targets each marked reached or not with the days it took, is sent to any address you give us. The first question you ask is answered free; further queries from $149.