We recently compiled a list of the 11 Most Promising New Technology Stocks According to Analysts. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) stands against the other promising new technology stocks.
Are the Tariffs Impacting the IPO Market?
The stock market entered 2025 with much optimism, taking confidence from last year’s performance. Similar to the stock market, the US IPO market also entered 2025 well-positioned for a promising year. However, the uncertainty regarding the tariffs has led to a lot of volatility in both the stock market and the IPO market.
On March 27, White & Case released its insights on the US IPO market. The report highlighted that the US IPO showed steady gains due to stabilized gains and falling interest rates in the fourth quarter of 2024. Last year marked the second consecutive year of positive growth in US IPO proceeds, including the SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Company), as the proceeds reached $41.36 billion after growing 75% year-over-year. While the growth was impressive, it was still well below the pre-pandemic levels. In terms of the IPO counts, the number of IPOs grew from 154 in 2023 to 231 in 2024. The report also noted that the United States continued to lead the global IPO market by posting more than twice the level of proceeds as India, which is the second-largest IPO market by proceeds.
The progress from the last year was carried on into 2025 as figures from the January 2025 IPO were favorable compared to the same month last year. In January, the US saw 29 IPOs, up from 17, with deal values growing from $3.45 billion to $5.1 billion. Moreover, the pipeline figures showed that there were 57 pending IPOs in March 2025. The United States market is anticipating more technology and artificial intelligence companies to go IPO during the year. This is due to the massive joint investment through Stargate’s $100 billion reserve.
The report acknowledged the uncertainty and difficulty that new companies might be facing due to the tariffs. However, the overall economic policies of the administration are viewed as capital-friendly, thereby paving the way for more IPOs to be filed this year.
Our Methodology
To curate the list of 11 most promising new technology stocks according to analysts, we used the Finviz stock screener and CNN. Using the screener, we aggregated a list of technology stocks that have IPOed within the last 3 years. Next, we sourced the upside potential based on Wall Street analysts’ price target estimates for each stock from CNN and ranked the stocks in ascending order of this indicator. We have also added the hedge fund sentiment around each stock from Insider Monkey’s Q4 2024 database. Please note that the data was recorded on May 13, 2025.
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Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB)
Analyst Upside Potential: 17.88%
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 51
Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that also sells semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructures. Their core offering is the Intelligent Connectivity Platform, which integrates semiconductor-based products such as PCIe, CXL, and Ethernet connectivity ICs. The company is based in California and is recognized for its innovation in connectivity solutions.
On May 7, Atif Malik, an analyst from Citi, maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a price target of $100. The analyst noted that despite a slight decline in the stock price, the company experienced robust demand for its AI retimers, CXL, and Taurus products. Malik expects this strong growth to continue, particularly driven by the Scorpio product, which is strategically important for scaling AI networking capabilities.
Malik also noted that Astera Labs, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:ALAB) first-to-market PCIe Gen 6 technology is anticipated to drive significant sales growth in the coming years. The company also has a strategic edge due to its close ties with Nvidia and hyperscalers such as AWS. It is one of the most promising new technology stocks according to analysts.
Artisan Small Cap Fund stated the following regarding Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:
“Among our top Q4 contributors were Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB), Veracyte and Vita Coco. Astera Labs is a fabless provider of connectivity chips designed to address data, network and memory bandwidth bottlenecks in data centers. With increasingly powerful graphics processing units and central processing units—costing $5,000 to $40,000 and depreciating within 3–5 years—often operating at only ~50% utilization due to architectural constraints, Astera’s products play a critical role in enhancing efficiency. As compute architectures become more heterogeneous across graphic processing units, central processing units and custom accelerators, Astera’s solutions enable better collaboration between disparate chips. Recent earnings displayed strong momentum of its core products and benefited from adding new offerings to drive scale within the data center market, driving a strong rally in shares. After the strong rally, we trimmed our position based on valuation.”
Overall ALAB ranks 9th on our list of the most promising new technology stocks according to analysts. While we acknowledge the potential of ALAB as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than ALAB but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
