IonQ Stock Wins Analyst Backing Ahead of 2027 Superion Launch
Bank of America rates IonQ a Buy with a $60 price target, citing its chip-based quantum roadmap and SkyWater deal.
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Bank of America rates IonQ a Buy with a $60 price target, citing its chip-based quantum roadmap and SkyWater deal.
The article recommends a basket approach to quantum computing investments, highlighting five stocks: IonQ (trapped-ion method with 99.99% accuracy), Quantinuum (99.92% fidelity with strong software stack), D-Wave Quantum (quantum annealing leader expanding to gate-based systems), Infleqtion (neutral-atom approach targeting 99.9% fidelity), and IBM (mature company investing $10B+ in quantum technology with plans for fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029).
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D-Wave Quantum received up to $100 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Science Act, causing its stock to rise 10.86%. However, the government also awarded similar $100 million grants to rival quantum companies Quantinuum and Rigetti Computing. GlobalFoundries received the largest award at $375 million, suggesting it may be the government's preferred champion rather than D-Wave.
Quantinuum (Nasdaq: QNT), a leading quantum computing company, today announced it has finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce's CHIPS Research and Development Office for $100 million in federal