11 Best Affordable AI Stocks to Buy Now

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7. Kyndryl Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KD)

Forward P/E: 8.21

Stock Upside Potential: 23.97%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 24

Kyndryl Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KD) is one of the best affordable AI stocks to buy now. On November 26, Guggenheim analyst Jonathan Lee initiated coverage of the stock with a Buy rating and a $30 price target.

The positive rating comes on the heels of the company unveiling artificial intelligence-powered services for IBM z/OS customers. The services aim to accelerate application development, improve operational agility, and generate business insights on mainframe platforms.

The service combines the company’s mainframe expertise with agentic AI capabilities to accelerate decision-making and simplify complex processes across application and infrastructure management. The company plans to capitalize on a 2025 State of Mainframe Modernization Survey, which showed that 88% of respondents plan to implement AI in their mainframe environments.

“Kyndryl is leading the way in providing world-class agentic AI-enabled delivery services to customers that will instill confidence in the mainframe’s role as an engine of innovation for global enterprises,” said Hassan Zamat, Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl.

The new AI-powered services should empower clients to deploy advanced AI on the mainframes to drive operational agility.

Earlier, on November 19, Kyndryl introduced its Agentic AI Digital Trust services to help companies manage AI securely across hybrid and multi-cloud setups. The new service functions as a central hub for tasks like discovering and testing AI agents, monitoring policies, reporting on compliance, and handling risk, all while working with existing security tools and major cloud platforms.

The launch follows findings from Kyndryl’s 2025 Readiness Report, which shows that most organizations are investing heavily in AI and feel pressure to demonstrate clear returns. Kris Lovejoy highlighted the risks of letting agentic AI operate without proper oversight. Working with Microsoft and using Microsoft Fabric tools, Kyndryl is positioning this service as part of its larger Agentic AI Framework to strengthen trust, compliance, and reliability in enterprise AI systems.

Kyndryl Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KD) is an IT infrastructure services provider, spun off from IBM, that designs, builds, manages, and modernizes complex, mission-critical technology systems. It helps enterprises adopt, manage, and scale AI solutions through consulting services, its proprietary Agentic AI Framework, and strategic partnerships.​

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