JPMorgan says to buy these 18 'mispriced' tech stocks insulated from AI disruption

Ticker: AFRM

12-month return: -37%

What JPMorgan says: “The software meltdown has taken the wind out of the sails of “rule of X” stocks with thin GAAP net income margins, including AFRM,” the analysts wrote. “Fundamentally, business performance is as strong as ever,” they added, underlining Affirm’s competitive position in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) space.

Ticker: CRDO

12-month return: +71%

What JPMorgan says: The analysts, who recently raised their estimates for Credo, said that “Copper-to-optical displacement in data centers is overstated, with the transition expected to be gradual and prolonged.” JPMorgan says Credo is well-postioned to gain from from ongoing AI infrastructure builds and hyper scalers’ spending.

Ticker: EFX

12-month return: -22%

What JPMorgan says: Equifax’s “strong guidance for 2026 is underpinned by increased demand for foundational data to inform credit decisioning.”

Ticker: FA

12-month return: -53%

What JPMorgan says: The analysts explained that since background checks are a regulated product, First Advantage’s offerings are unlikely to be replaced by AI. “We note that AI research labs contract with FCRA-regulated entities to conduct background checks, and do not do such checks themselves,” they wrote.

Ticker: FIS

12-month return: -31%

What JPMorgan says: “FIS is deeply entrenched with regulated, complex financial institutions that rely on its payment connectivity, especially as many banks lack modern core platforms.”

Ticker: HUBS

12-month return: -70%

What JPMorgan says: Hubspot is among the software names JPMorgan highlighted during the software meltdown. They said the company is “better insulated from the AI displacement narrative because they are directly monetizing their own AI products / agents or they provide the foundational layer — compute, observability, data pipelines — that AI workloads themselves require to run.”

Ticker: MCO

12-month return: -18%

What JPMorgan says: “AI is unlikely to disrupt the market for credit ratings, which are deeply embedded in client contracts” the analysts noted, highlighting Moody’s dominant position alongside S&P Global.

Ticker: MSCI

12-month return: -9%

What JPMorgan says: “We see AI as unlikely to disrupt the indices market, as indexes are intended to be neutrally arbitrated and are deeply embedded in client contracts.”

Ticker: NIQ

12-month return: -42%

What JPMorgan says: After NIQ Global Intelligence made its public trading debut in 2025, JPM analysts said “NIQ’s proprietary data informs daily decisionmaking for the CPG industry and benchmarks channel, category, and product performance.”

Ticker: OKTA

12-month return: -14%

What JPMorgan says: Okta stands to gain as evolving AI intensifies the need for strong identification and access management. “Looks well positioned to benefit from tailwinds from acceleration of non-human identities,” JPM analysts wrote.

Ticker: SHOP

12-month return: -12%

What JPMorgan says: “Even if AI can spin up a comparable storefront application, it won’t own payments, fraud, taxes, reporting, or merchant support,” the analysts said, adding “We think any company that tries will end up rebuilding Shopify’s org and cost structure (at a fraction of its scale).”

Ticker: SPGI

12-month return: -23%

What JPMorgan says: Like Moody’s, the analysts indicated S&P Global is insulated since the credit rating market is likely safe from AI disruption. They wrote, “Investors are debating ascribing value risk for SPGI’s Market Intelligence business, despite momentum in subscription metrics.”

Ticker: TOST

12-month return: -30%

What JPMorgan says: “TOST’s advantaged distribution and integration tying restaurant payments and operations creates a powerful moat, in our view, connecting software, hardware, and fintech services,” analysts said, noting that “the stock’s sell-off overlooks the embeddedness of Toast’s platform within a restaurant’s operations, which cannot be easily displaced.”

Ticker: TRU

12-month return: -25%

What JPMorgan says: TransUnion, like Equifax, benefits from its business functioning in a heavily rated space, JPM said, highlighting “strong business momentum” and signals that its AI adoption efforts are resinating with customers.

Ticker: TWLO

12-month return: -13%

What JPMorgan says: Twilio, a customer engagement platform that helps businesses connect with customers through text and other channels, is among the software names that JPM sees being insulated from AI because its monetizing its own AI products. Twilio offers CustomerAI, its AI-powered product to improve customer engagement.

Ticker: VEEV

12-month return: -24%

What JPMorgan says: “Integrates agentic AI within its Vault Platform, offering direct, secure access to sensitive life sciences data and workflows, with application-specific safeguards to maintain compliance and data integrity.”

Ticker: VRSK

12-month return: -38%

What JPMorgan says: “VRSK’s core pricing and claims dataset is contributed from the highly fragmented insurance industry and cannot be disintermediated by AI,” the analysts wrote, adding, “VRSK has built balance sheet capacity to take advantage of the dislocation in its stock.”

Ticker: XYZ

12-month return: -40%

What JPMorgan says: “Block is investing heavily in AI with Moneybot, Manager Bot, and Goose orchestration agent, embedding these tools directly into its payments ecosystem and hardware.” The company, like Toast and Shopify, benefits from its connectivity in the heavily regulated payments space.