Top Investors’ Stock Portfolio: 10 Mid-cap Stocks To Buy

3. HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO)

Market Capitalization: $9.56 billion

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 53

HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO) ranks among the mid-cap stocks to buy according to top investors. On January 16, Piper Sandler decreased its price target for HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO) to $67 from $68 while maintaining an Overweight rating on the company’s shares. The firm highlighted “messy” West Coast operations as the key reason for downside adjustments to its fourth-quarter 2025 predictions.

Piper Sandler reduced its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings per share projections to $0.44 from $0.96, while also lowering its EBITDA forecast to $358 million from $473 million.

Despite a difficult quarter, Piper Sandler sees these West Coast difficulties as “non-recurring” and is optimistic on HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO) for 2026, citing possible benefits from wider crude price differentials, an improving West Coast market, and “underappreciated SRE potential.”

The same day, Scotiabank lowered its price target for HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO) from $66 to $62. The change is a component of the company’s revised price forecasts for the large-cap E&P, refining, and American integrated oil equities that fall under its umbrella.

HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE:DINO) is an independent petroleum refiner in the United States with operations throughout the mid-continent, southwestern, and Rocky Mountain regions.