Wall Street Gives a Big Boost to FANG Stocks

Hedge funds are poised to win after Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google’s parent Alphabet get a boost from sell-side analysts.

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Wall Street’s sell-side is providing another big boost to shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google’s parent Alphabet, a group of companies that is popular with hedge funds.

In the past eight days, at least four investment banks boosted their price targets of the so-called FANG stocks, which already have accounted for a big share of the market’s gains this year.

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